This is very minimal and would not even be enough to be considered wear or buckle rash, nearly impossible to photograph. The body is in great shape, on the back there is just a little bit of finish wear where the original foam in the case started to react with the finish. The tone knob on this bass really makes a difference all the way through, see the video attached to hear the full range of this single pickup bass. The electronics all work without noise, the pots roll without crackle and the input jack is good.
The frets are still good and the neck solid and feels thick all the way down to the nut like a Vintage Fender P. The two part maple neck is straight with only a single ding on the back at the base of the headstock. This bass is Made in USA and features a Peavey Super Ferrite Pickup. Made in USA with original "chainsaw" Peavey hard shell case.
Their better stuff like the Classic 50 or Mace didn't show up that often or go as cheap.This is a one owner Peavey Patriot bass. Those were the ones which were found for sale used cheap. A lot of their solid state guitar amps back in the 1970s and 1980s were kinda midrange laden and farty sounding which the country guys seemed to like but rock guys tended to dismiss them as being too hard to dial in a usable rock tone with. I used some of it (my PA board and amp is Peavey and I used a Peavey bass head for years), as did other people I knew just because we were too poor to afford "good stuff". So it was not considered "cool" gear to have. The other thing is back when I was a kid the main people who played Peavey gear were country boys. The kind of Tolex they use on a lot of stuff is kinda cheap looking too, it is fairly tough, but looks pretty industrial. Peavey insists on using that gawd awful logo that Hartley designed when he was a kid and they tend to use a lot of garrish aluminum strip trim, especially the wide stuff which makes their stuff look cheap and dated. but it isn't "WOW" either.Īnyway, I think a lot of the reason that Peavey gear gets no love is so much of it is BUTT FUGLY. FWIW, the people who say that 1970s Strats, at least the ones made after 1971 or 1972 often have a point about them not being as good as the pre-CBS ones. It is in pretty decent shape except for a bad rattle can paint job and the (non-Fender) hard shell case is a little beat up. Click to expand.I bought my 1977 Strat for $250 sometime in 1993 or 1994.
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