kodiakblair

We live in a time where manufacturing has never been cheaper or more productive. Material cost of ash has dropped 25%, maple is down 30% from 2020. FMIC hourly rates are the same as 6 years ago, maybe longer. Fender charges what they think the market will pay and what will keep their books looking good for owner Servco Pacific Captital. An alteration to the system used by cheap Japanese guitars/basses of the 60's.

No truck with plasma, takes up valuable space needed for caffeine, codeine and nicotine. My body is a temple 😎

I can't say all of mine were excellent, wasn't too keen on the Sarzo and I loathed the T-45 😁 Some I thought were great but those were mostly lower tier models, Patriot and Zephyr being stand out IMHO. Course that says more about my needs and expectations, contented root note player like myself has no place owning a Midibase; didn't stop me buying one 🤣

Just had a saw slip, ripped down length of the thumb and bite a chunk out the index finger. Logged into BC while waiting on the blood to congeal, might have affected my sarcasm detection skills 👍

What were you were saying? https://vintagejapanguitars.com/the-true-story-of-lawsuit-guitars/ https://www.adkguitar.com/blogs/news/what-do-we-mean-when-we-say-lawsuit-guitar#:~:text=THE Lawsuit Guitar,that lawsuits were very rare. https://flypaper.soundfly.com/discover/truth-lawsuit-era-guitars/

It will end up in the for sale ads along with the rest. Just need a burst of energy for photos before paying my subs, must be 30 odd Peaveys in the cupboard so that energy is a big ask 🤣

Urban myth. There was only ever one law suit. Gibson filed against Ibanez over the 'open book' style peghead. Never saw trial as Ibanez had went with a different shape before any date was set. That's the whole 'law suit' saga in a nutshell. In the 90's Fender tried to retro-file their body shapes as a trademark, but this was in the USA and again never gained any traction.

Afraid I can't help if it's a 1st gen model, mine now lives in Hungary. Still have a 2nd gen 🙂

Had a couple of those. Left is the Dyna-Unity, centre a standard DynaBass, right is a Unity. On the right my, now sold, Dyna-Unity Koa.

There were a couple of models. Peavey signed up Brian Bromberg for a signature bass and allowed him to go to town. Called the B-Quad, they came with Modulus CF necks. This is my one . Few years later, 1998, they revisited CF necks but this time it was a under-sized maple neck with a carbon wrap. There was the 4 string model, G-Bass, 5 string G-V. Mistaken identity/crossed wires/wishful thinking have led to an urban myth the G-Bass/G-V also had Modulus necks, total BS 🤣 My old pal recalled the raw necks were shipped out to a gun factory, Bell & Carlson, for wrapping. Never found a G-V but did snag a G-Bass.

That was not a good look, I'm always surprised they agreed to take part. Only saving grace was all my contacts there had moved on years before. Sad thing is we get outraged at Peavey but it's just how US manufacturing is done, there was no union at Peavey; no union at FMIC, Gibson EBMM nor G&L. Think you can guess the union policy at RIC 🤣 Back on the Milestone topic. My pal Ronnie was head engineer for Peavey, when the neck on his T-40 went to s**t he replaced with with a Milestone neck; added a peghead pinstripe with a Sharpie and called it job done 🙂

Och, nobody is paying big money for Peaveys whatever their origin 🙂 They're popular with a small crowd in the USA, mostly those low on cash but high on the desire to own anything 'MIA'. Elsewhere they're not really noted as a brand, I think it's down to the timing. First Peavey guitars and basses (T-series) came out in 1978, two things were happening then. Quality of US instruments was pretty poor, late era Gibson/Norlin & Fender/CBS. Japan moving away from supplying cheap copies to good quality original designs. T-series wouldn't have looked out of place in 1973-74 but were old hat in 78. This habit of being 4 years behind everyone else is one they never managed to kick 🙂

Owned 68 of them so know a bit about them. OP's Milestone comes from the Samick factory, Peavey haven't built any instruments themselves since 2010.

Thanks. It's just the light, both neck and fretboard are Panga Panga.

Aye, this hole just keeps getting deeper 🤣 Paulownia has a long history with stringed instruments. The Chinese have been making Guzheng from Paulownia for about 2000 years now, it's 1300 - 1500 for the Japanese Koto. Feurich use it in some of their grand pianos. John Suhr charges $3.5k for his Paulownia Strats.