Hi to everyone on this fantastic T-40 forum! I'm mark from South Africa, finally got my hands on an awesome T-40 yesterday, bought it off an old guy who bought it new sometime in the early eighties, unfortunately for him he managed to break both his wrists not long after buying it! consequently the bass has never really been played much, in fact it is as close to mint as it gets I think, almost like opening a time capsule or something, can't believe this bass is 30 years old.
Unfortunately I don't have a camera at the moment but will upload pics as soon as possible. The details are sienna sunburst body and rosewood neck, I've read on some posts that most Peavey T-40's are made from 5 pieces of wood, sometimes 3 but from what I can tell this one seems to be only 2, is this possible?
There are a couple of problems that I've encountered and I'm hoping all the T-40 experts on this forum can help me out, there is a major 'dead spot' around the Th and 17 Th frets, mostly on the D and A strings
the action is also fairly high and the neck tilt feature doesn't really seem to do anything although I haven't had time to take the neck off and check what is going on there
I'm guessing that maybe somebody in the past over tightened the neck tilt screw causing a warp in that area? does this seem likely?
also how does one get around adjusting the truss rod? I see that it is not a normal Allen wrench type of deal, any advice on how I can adjust the truss rod with something else?
Any and all advice would be greatly appreciated as this is a vintage bass I want to be very careful what I do with it, also Peavey have their own way of doing things and this neck tilt feature is completely new concept to me.
cheers everyone!