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4 hours ago, jd56hawk said:

Other than that, these two 40th Anniversary Vintage models are selling for $300 or so

Not in the UK , OP could buy 3 Harley Bentons for 40th Anniversary money.

I'm with @AndyTravis regarding the silver.

My 90's reissue from Japan has the silver backing , it's the bee's knees 🙂

5 hours ago, casapete said:

There is currently a mint reissue on eBay for £1400, complete with 2 interchangeable pickups.

Good price though if I was in the market for another acrylic bass, it'd be this one.

With all that perspex it'll never neck dive 😄

On 19/07/2023 at 22:07, vinorange said:

Very under rated basses and as per the ad the early necks for these were made by modulus. Odd configuration with a rosewood board on a graphite neck though....

If only it were true.

The earlier B-Quad basses had Modulus necks, the G-bass connection is a combination of confusion and wishful thinking 😀

My pal Ronnie was still head mech engineer for Peavey in Meridian the time of the G & G-V basses, the necks were machined slightly undersize then shipped to gun stock outfit Bell & Carlson for a carbon wrap. Someplace I've a photo of my G-bass  with tuning pegs removed that shows the wooden core, when I did the same with my B-Quad neck it showed Modulus were of hollow construction.

There's a few other factors rule out Modulus necks, price/no mention despite being a registered trademark and a pretty strong selling point, but the most compelling was Geoff Gould flat out denying any involvement with Peavey other than the B-Quad necks.

2 hours ago, Bassassin said:

 

We do all realise these are Dan Armstrong copies - or to be more specific, as they have branding - counterfeits, I hope?

An original 'see through' costs about $5k with re-issues between $2.5k to $3.5k. Nobody here thinks they're getting the real thing for £200.

If Ampeg were bothered there's nothing stopping them sending a message to head office and asking Yamaha to put their legal dept on the case.

1 hour ago, Fullmoon1971 said:

I'm not trying to start a fight or being a a-hole, just correcting some commenly held misconceptions about trademark and copyright laws.

Nor me. 

They were listed as C-series NTB 4 & 5 strings in Peavey's release sheet for 1999.

Doubt trademark or copyright had any bearing on things, marketing a product using the same name as others just makes you look daft. Something Peavey UK had form for, "Dynabass International" springs to mind ; only points it had in common with the US Dynabass was the name and 4 strings 🤣

1 hour ago, Fullmoon1971 said:

what is the actual model?

It's a C-4, Zephyr was never the official name.

 4 & 5 string bolt on/neck through versions appeared 1999, discontinued for the 2001 launch of the Grind.

Original Grinds were bolt on neck active basses, your local shop needs a Peavey refresher course 😀

Wings look like they could be red meranti. 

9 minutes ago, Phil Starr said:

OK not Falkirk in Scotland then

No, Falkirk in Scotland.

Reply was to downunderwunder. 

I'm looking at a pristine sheet of 15mm ATM, thinking do I use it for deafening boards or do I use some old 18mm for that and have the 15mm for cab material 🙂

5 hours ago, Downunderwonder said:

Not familiar with your definition. Over here it would be treated with an anti fungal but not necessarily of the kind of knot free structure you want for cabs.

Over here sheathing ply is the rough stuff used mostly for shuttering, marine is the top grade; exterior is general purpose with one good face for painting.

4 hours ago, Phil Starr said:

If it's something you use at work why not ask one of the chippies what they think?

I am one of the chippies 😄

It was the 15mm not 12mm I was wondering about, do I keep the same inner dimensions and hole positions or does being thicker  affect those ?

On 11/07/2023 at 08:40, Phil Starr said:

A 2x8 version would be interesting.

I've never attempted to build a cab before, maybe this will keep me from looking at TC, TE and Warwick Gnome 2x8's 🙂

Have a load of 15mm exterior ply at work , could I use that ?

23 minutes ago, fleabag said:

What a beautifully made bass. 

Understatement of the week, that's a cracker 👍

51 minutes ago, dgmcc said:

barring some of the finishes

There were a few finishes.

My 5 string before I went OTT with gold hardware and active EQ.

My pal Gillian's 2.

Have to say I prefer the 2 on the right here.

German fella contacted me about Zephyrs a few years back, my lot were pretty well known in Peavey circles so I heard from plenty like-minded folk. I put Erek in tough with the Italian owner of that cracking flamed top C-5.

Notice how the Grind far left differs, being lop-sided at the upper bout, off set dots too.

4 hours ago, dgmcc said:

Impressive!

Thanks.

Took a fair bit of time to amass though I'd say luck and contacts also played their part 🙂 

@tauzero

It was mental, they put out over 40 models in 32 years.

Managed to fit 50 of them into the living room for this photo. 

10 hours ago, dgmcc said:

Astounded at the knowledge on display

Owned a complete collection of Peavey basses, every model released USA and overseas from 1978 to 2010.

Your post gave my inner geek an excuse to run free 🤣

Doesn't appear to have a logo.

At first I thought he had a 4 ace card sticker but now I'm seeing somebody's face; could be my painkillers taking effect 😄

1 hour ago, tauzero said:

1 hour ago, tauzero said:

I think it was when the Grind got a second revamp that it changed. I remember looking at the specs of the original neck-through Grind with the body scoop and it was 34" 4-string, 35" the rest.

 

https://www.talkbass.com/threads/differences-peavey-grind-and-peavey-grind-bxp.797769/

 

The ones in the catalogue don't have the body scoop, so that's the revamp. They got revamped again about five years ago.

 

I'd place little faith in that TB thread 😁

2 confused TB members, 1 confused buyer and 1 very confused Peavey customer service rep 🤣

"The first Peavey grinds made outside of the US didn't have the BXP logo on them"

How does the Peavey rep explain this ?

I afraid there was no revamp 5 years ago since Peavey retired the Grind either just before or after the 2017 Cirrus re-issue.

The catalogue snaps came from 2011 and 2015, here's a snap from 2008 and the body scoop had gone by then.

That gives the scoop body a 4 year window and I've never heard anyone in any of the Peavey pages say they have a 34" scale length from that era. Common complaints are "it's heavy", "couldn't cope with 35"" and "thought the pickups were weak".

Some of the Cirrus BXP dropped to 34" SL for a short while, could you be confusing the two ?

5 hours ago, tauzero said:

Grind 4-strings were 34", only the 5 and 6 strings were 35".

 Yes and no.

In the original format, active/bolt on neck, both the USA and BXP 4 strings were 34" scale length. When Grind got a revamp as a passive neck through in 2004 , scale length changed to 35".

My Grind BXP NTB is from the initial Vietnam production run, had no idea it was 35" until a friend asked how I was finding the longer scale length 😄

Technically it's a C-4 NTB, Peavey couldn't really use 'Zephyr' as Epiphone had first dibs 😄

3 hours ago, Lfalex v1.1 said:

If there's even a difference between those models. 

There's a few.

C - series are 34" scale length, Grinds 35".  Grind soapbars are 2 wires in series, C-4/5 were 4 wire in series and had a higher output. You find both bolt on and neck through C-series, Grinds were all neck through. Black hardware for Grinds, chrome for C-series.

@anzoid

Congratulations.

I really like that, an exercise in good taste 👍 

Answered Ciaran's 'wanted' ad for 96 Foundation.

Despite me taking an age to get it ready he stayed on board until the end. 

Man is a trooper 👍

On 26/06/2023 at 17:29, Gary_B_227 said:

Does anyone know where I can get a replacement?

Looked at a Sire P7 preamp on Reverb.

Pots are similar to Alpha 9mm.

Thankfully neither Allparts nor Stewmac stock them, if they did the swines would want €16 instead of €4 like everywhere else 😁

Check the value need on your preamp then try

https://www.banzaimusic.com/Alpha-9mm-Dual-Concentric/

or

https://www.musikding.de/Alpha-Pots-9mm

14 minutes ago, Woodinblack said:

The third, that makes no sense - if you don't get the lower amount you sure as hell will never get the higher, and even if you put it back up, people know you will accept the lower amount so seems pointless.

I wouldn't be so sure 🙂

I remember a no-name Japanese P-bass spent ages on eBay, BIN £100. After a few months the seller changed tack and it was BIN £180, sold within a couple of days 😄

Bloody Hell !!

Simple yet genius , cheers Paul I'll be using that 🙂