Many many many moons back, I had a relatively early Peavey T60. The two memorable features were a ridiculously-heavy NORTHERN ash body - roughly the size of a 335 or so, only NOT hollow. Paired with a ridiculously-thin, Pre-Wizard Wizard-size neck. It was like, Hartley Peavey took a list of various features off of various different guitars - then chose the least compatible making the Greatest Guitar Ever. So I cut a couple of really big HOLES throught the thing, and then repaired it with the very, very first aftermarket replacement neck I had ever even seen or heard of, a $99 no-name maple/maple Strat neck from Guitar Resurrection in Austin Tx. That was a GREAT guitar town.... Nowadays it would be called a boatneck, and I've often wondered who/what/where it came from - no turtle, who WAS making replacement mape-mapes in 1984? Once I destroyed the thing, it was actually quite a good guitar - but I also had better, so I shortly traded it for my first pedal steel guitar.
So anyway
The fingerboard/fret junctures had been laminated with the usual mixture of Vintage Blues Mud, fermented mung-bean spread and Personal Byproducts - I try to not spend too much time on questions about which I really don't want to know the answers.
It does have the most misfortune'd popsicle-stick neck profile of Peavey's entire oeuvre (thataways) - but - YAAY!!! - a seriously-jumbo "boatneck" profile 24-fret Warmoth "Warhead" neck will be a near-shoe-in. Both 24.75" scale length. The Peavey has 23 frets*, with another 0.21875"-r-so of wood leading to a flat Tele butt landing; the Warhead has a 24-fret neck with the last fret on a fretboard extenson, there's a roundy Stratish butt that ends up 0.21875"('r-so) past the 23rd fret. Plenty room for the fret exension, up to and above the pickup:
*(I try to not spend too much time on questions about which I don't even care about the answers. Twenty-THREE?!?)
I will likely do some little wedgie-type stuffers, no plobremo for SuperFidgit! It also has the neck screws centered inwards from the normal location, they'd obviously be too stable out towards the edges like normal. So I have to redrill/redirect the body holes. And it also has the lovely little insty-tilt thing adopted from Fender, but maybe even more improved to added screwedness. As it's currently set, you can loosen the two upper neck screws and tighten the two lower ones to change the neck angle, or vice-versa... all rocking back and forth on the 1/100th of a millimeter area of a single little screwpoint. But - it's a steel screwpoint! :hello2:
And changing the alignment from side to side is as simple as just picking it up (note to sef - B SHUR to retain that feech).
Of course, over on the "Incredibly Valuable" section of the Rare Vintage Peavey Guitar Forum they're tiptoeing around their Incredibly Rare $200 Peavey Masterpieces - :icon_thumright:Scott GROVE :icon_thumright: said they were better than 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standards! :icon_thumright:- what mo' can you possibly nee... BUT YOU CAN'T TOUCH A THING! It's a Peavey, man.... ok ok down if u can't say anything nice go fishing etc. In mod terms out here in the Stubbyland it's like BOMBS AWAY, Baby.
When I first saw the thing, I actually had my Warmoth "Mustang" with a Warhead neck on it in my lap, playing while surfing...., looking back and forth from butt to butt. Then I forgot to bid on it! Then it was still there, then I made the man an offer he could not refuse. One semi-foolproofing issue is that the bridge plate is huge, with lots of room, so even if my neck plate dimensions are a few mm's off I'll be able to do LOTS of adjustment by changing saddle screw lengths, and as it's getting better saddles anyway....
And above all, it does have the very functional dual blade-to-single-coil rolloff and these pickups are GOOD. He surely stole something from the Lawrence L500's and stole it well. Looking in the control cavity there's nothing special, no dual-ganged pots or anything? ??? It just works. I actually have hopes for the thing once I get a real neck, something better than IMITATION Klusons... it's going to wait a while though. I'm still paying off my teeth, I "shouldn't" have even bought this.... boy I feel really about that guilty too. :laughing7:
So anyway
The fingerboard/fret junctures had been laminated with the usual mixture of Vintage Blues Mud, fermented mung-bean spread and Personal Byproducts - I try to not spend too much time on questions about which I really don't want to know the answers.
It does have the most misfortune'd popsicle-stick neck profile of Peavey's entire oeuvre (thataways) - but - YAAY!!! - a seriously-jumbo "boatneck" profile 24-fret Warmoth "Warhead" neck will be a near-shoe-in. Both 24.75" scale length. The Peavey has 23 frets*, with another 0.21875"-r-so of wood leading to a flat Tele butt landing; the Warhead has a 24-fret neck with the last fret on a fretboard extenson, there's a roundy Stratish butt that ends up 0.21875"('r-so) past the 23rd fret. Plenty room for the fret exension, up to and above the pickup:*(I try to not spend too much time on questions about which I don't even care about the answers. Twenty-THREE?!?)
I will likely do some little wedgie-type stuffers, no plobremo for SuperFidgit! It also has the neck screws centered inwards from the normal location, they'd obviously be too stable out towards the edges like normal. So I have to redrill/redirect the body holes. And it also has the lovely little insty-tilt thing adopted from Fender, but maybe even more improved to added screwedness. As it's currently set, you can loosen the two upper neck screws and tighten the two lower ones to change the neck angle, or vice-versa... all rocking back and forth on the 1/100th of a millimeter area of a single little screwpoint. But - it's a steel screwpoint! :hello2:
And changing the alignment from side to side is as simple as just picking it up (note to sef - B SHUR to retain that feech).
Of course, over on the "Incredibly Valuable" section of the Rare Vintage Peavey Guitar Forum they're tiptoeing around their Incredibly Rare $200 Peavey Masterpieces - :icon_thumright:Scott GROVE :icon_thumright: said they were better than 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standards! :icon_thumright:- what mo' can you possibly nee... BUT YOU CAN'T TOUCH A THING! It's a Peavey, man.... ok ok down if u can't say anything nice go fishing etc. In mod terms out here in the Stubbyland it's like BOMBS AWAY, Baby.
When I first saw the thing, I actually had my Warmoth "Mustang" with a Warhead neck on it in my lap, playing while surfing...., looking back and forth from butt to butt. Then I forgot to bid on it! Then it was still there, then I made the man an offer he could not refuse. One semi-foolproofing issue is that the bridge plate is huge, with lots of room, so even if my neck plate dimensions are a few mm's off I'll be able to do LOTS of adjustment by changing saddle screw lengths, and as it's getting better saddles anyway....
And above all, it does have the very functional dual blade-to-single-coil rolloff and these pickups are GOOD. He surely stole something from the Lawrence L500's and stole it well. Looking in the control cavity there's nothing special, no dual-ganged pots or anything? ??? It just works. I actually have hopes for the thing once I get a real neck, something better than IMITATION Klusons... it's going to wait a while though. I'm still paying off my teeth, I "shouldn't" have even bought this.... boy I feel really about that guilty too. :laughing7:
