Trade Ibanez Iceman bass(90's passive) for Peavey T-40

[tmoney61092]

i'm stuck on this, i have the chance to trade but i've never played one before, what's your experience with them? what kind of sound did you get out of it? you guys think it's a good deal? i don't want to regret getting rid of the Ibanez because it could be more valuable one day
 
~Taylor

[pace]

T-40s rock Taylor!!!!  
 
I don't know if they'll ever exceed the $350-400 range, but they are work horses, and very dear to my heart.... I've been looking for one myself. Ideally, I'd throw some Dark Star pups in it, and buy a Foundation Fretless sitting in a local pawn shop just for it's neck... That would be the beater bass of my dreams.... Im curious what the wood recipe is on the the one you're considering... Most were natural swamp ash or oak w/ solid bi-laminated Maple necks, I have a T-15 guitar w/ Mahogany body, but that was a rarity....

[tmoney61092]

thanks for the help Mike, i think i'm going to go for, one reason being that since Ibanez is still making the Iceman bass i feel like the value will never be what it once was especially since it's passive(still a great bass though). the one i'm looking at is the swamp ash with maple neck and fretboard. another reason i want is because i've been dying for a bass with a maple fretboard but don't quite have the funds for Fender Amer. Delux. Jazz i want :-)
 
~Taylor

[bigredbass]

I bought a natural T40 when they first came out, $350, case included.  WAY overbuilt, solid as a tank.  Neck was curiously thin compared to the massive body and hardware.  Very interesting tone circuit, as you rolled the tone knob from low to wide-open, it tapered the big humbucking from both coils to single-coil, plus an out-of-phase switch.
 
This was the bass that Hartley Peavey turned everyone on their ear with for that price.
 
They are real 'in your face' axes tone-wise, thought they will settle down with flats or ground-wound strings.  Will cut right through a loud rock band with Rotosounds, I know, I did it !
 
J o e y

[hydrargyrum]

The T-60 guitar is also really cool.  I thought the same thing as Joey, thin neck, massive body.  I've always secretly coveted my friend's but I doubt he'd ever sell it.

[lbpesq]

Mike:
 
You have a T-15?  Do you have the plastic case with the built-in amp too?  That's a fun little 3/4 size guitar.
 
Bill, tgo

[pace]

My case is the plastic one, but no amp inside  
 
That T-15 was my first guitar.... I love the thing!

[lbpesq]

I used to have one.  The color was called Root Beer.  A mini T-60!
 
Bill, tgo

[benson_murrensun]

I tried my buddy's T-40 years ago. I remember it WAS built like a tank, and was almost as heavy! We conjectured that the T stood for Tree.
It sounded good and played well, too.

[pace]

>>>This was the bass that Hartley Peavey turned everyone on their ear with for that price.  
 
I know you're taking a leap of faith, but I don't think that you'll be disappointed Taylor. If for any reason you are, shoot me an e-mail.....

[pace]

Disregard my comment about the T-series having no sex appeal:
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIYtv5UmyxU&feature=related

[tmoney61092]

i really appreciate everyone's input, just waiting on being able to get some more detailed pics of my Iceman to be able to send to him before he makes the decision, but i sent him a video demonstration that i made of the bass so hoping that the sound helps convince him a little. i'm thinking this guy is more into metal so this bass would be perfect for him(i use to be really into metal so i got it for the shape but the string spacing was way to far apart for me). you guys have actually got me pretty excited about (hopefully) getting this bass. Mike, if for some unexplainable reason i don't lke this bass, you'll be the first person i contact
 
~Taylor

[bigredbass]

Hartley recounts that as a gun nut, he'd always been amazed at the tight wood-to-metal fit on even cheap rifles.  He did some investigation and found that gunstocks were made on copy lathes:  You put a master in and it would carve many duplicates very finely.  Pop them out, finish sand them, send to spray, done.  He soon discovered that cad/cam would work as well.  The consensus was then that you could not handcraft fine guitars this way.  
 
Of course, nowadays the big builders brag about how complex their robotics are to craft better guitars.  Like I've always said, HP (NOT Hewlett-Packard) made a fortune doing what 'they' said couldn't be done.  I've always been a big fan.  The T40's were $350, case included, when PBasses
were $700 or better.  Pair it with a Combo 300, and you were ready to gig for a little under a grand !  Plus they were both unbreakable.  I feel real confident saying that a lot of us, before we got real highfalutin' and got Alembics and high-end amps, probably played lots of Peaveys back in the beginning . . .
 
J o e y
 
(Message edited by bigredbass on October 19, 2010)