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Originally Posted by RetroDaddy
The burst finish just blew me away. It's a complex, flawlessly done, see through burst finish on a fantastic piece of wood (basswood I think) with a black pickguard.
The maple fretboard is fast and the frets on the guitar I played were flawlessly installed and properly finished. No fret buzz or sharp edges. The maple used for the neck of my axe has lots of figure and is surprisingly high quality. Same with the maple used for the fretboard.
As others have said the tone from the neck pick up is fantastic. Might be the best Fender sounding pure rythm or warm bluesy lead pick up I've ever heard on any guitar I've ever played at any price. The neck pick up totally blew me away through a Fender Blues Junior. The middle position sounds fantastic as well with the neck and bridge pick up both activated.
The only thing I found not to my taste on this guitar might be the bridge pickup. Others may disagree but in my opinion the bridge pick up is not as hot nor as good sounding as the neck pickup at least to my ear.
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I agree that the sunburst finishes are quite nice, but the two that they had at my local were both done over badly mismatched pieces of wood; the grain of the different pieces appeared to be from different trees. But that's just a cosmetic thing. If one of those had been the best player, I would have bought it.
The neck pickup shocked me. On t style guitars, even Fenders I have played, I tend to be biased towards the bridge pup. Nine times out of ten it sounds better to me. On this guitar I keep switching back to the neck pup 'cuz it sounds so good. It responds nicely to the tone control, giving a good variety of sounds on its own. And it does seem hotter than the bridge. One of my only quibbles about the guitar is that the neck pup is pickguard-mounted. I don't like the look of those screws!
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Originally Posted by RomanS
you'd have to make sure that the Peavey uses a 21-fret-neck, with the 22nd fret as an overhang, and not a full-length 22-fret-neck, otherwise the scale will be off with a Fender-spec'd neck.
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21 frets, no overhang. And I for one can live quite happily with this neck. The peghead doesn't bug me as much as I thought it would, and I'm not trying to convince anyone that it's a Fender anyway.