I hosed the first osage orange pickguard when I slipped with the router and tore in half, and mangled the edges badly enough that I can't repair it. I can't resaw on a bandsaw to save my life, so I just have to plane it down to thickness from 5/8ths, which seems like a huge waste, plus it's as hard as hell. I used the old wood one as a template, and work with some osage orange. I started laying on some tung oil to the body and working up a pickguard. I did some more work on the Peavey this weekend, although I don't have pics. In fact, I might just finish routing the whole area in to a "swimming pool route" though this bass will be neck heavy, I'm fairly certain, of it, with those big heavy Schaller tuners. I'm considering gluing a block of wood in the old route, just to add mass, but since it will be obscured by the pickguard, I may just leave it be. So I routed a cavity for it, while I had the router going. It's the Seth Lover designed PUP with CuNiFe pole pieces. I decided to stick with the humbucker from the old Tele bass, which I've established is legit.
I busted out the router to clean up the routes a little bit. I'm considering leaving the sides as is, for a kind of 2-tone look. While sanding, I thought the sides looked kinda cool in the burgundy tung-oil (ish) finish, so I left them be, for now. But anyways, back to the Peavey, I sanded the front and back down to bare wood. It was covered in nasty gold paint, had black magic marker all over it, and a failed jigsaw cut in the upper bout. I really should have gotten a pic of the tele before I stripped it.
I also obtained a couple old beater guitars. I got a little work done last weekend on the Peavey. Here's a shot of a piece of that osage orange that I used for a fretboard. I also have some slabs of osage orange wood, that might make a nice pickguard. I'm going to be putting that humbucker in the neck position, but I'm thinking it might just go perfectly with a Super Ferrite, which are noted for their top-end, as I understand it. I do have an original pickup from a 70's tele bass-the Seth Lover designed humbucker, which are known for their bottom end, but not much else. I don't have the original super ferrite pickup (more on this later). The neck looks really comfortable, nice rounded edges, and huge Schaller tuners (I think): Near as I can tell, though, it's the original finish.īut it's been scuffed all to hell with some coarse sandpaper. There's actually a couple holes through the back of the body from the point of the spade bit. The previous owner was going for a "steampunk" theme.īody is mahogany but has been annihilated with a chisel and spade bit. The Pickguard is wood, and painted with a brush.
The Super Ferrite pickup is gone, replaced with an SX P-Bass pickup(!). So, I jumped on this Peavey Patriot when I saw it pop up on Craig's List. I have a Samick bass, that plays great, but I love to get old/beat guitars and restore them a little.
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