My go-to store had a Peavey T-60

[Plessure]

Before i even recognized it, i was awe-struck by its beauty. For about 20 ms. Then i recognized it. It was an '85 specimen. No colouring, just wood with a great finish. Heavy as ****, and larger than i thought. It's been my dream guitar since i came across it online. The pickups looked a bit different from each other, with the bridge pickup having a slight metal stripe over each coil and the neck pickup lacking this detail.

I played it through a worn-out Fender Deluxe Reverb. The amp had some serious issues with noise and also volume fluctuations on the tremolo/reverb channel. Understandable for a tube amp that gets turned on and off many times a day, i suppose.

The black line around the headstock is delicious. The switches are delicious. The all-maple 25.5" scale neck recalls my Stratocaster which for me is optimal in this regard. I didn't notice it being excessively thin, but i was quite too immersed to pay attention to that. The coil splitting is subtle but present, and its peculiar implementation probably works better than a push-pull. The phase inversion is glorious and works great with pinch harmonics and all manner of picking nuance. I didn't get the chance to play around with pickup volumes in phase inverted mode, so it might be even better in a sweet spot.

Looking at pictures, i was enchanted by the black version. However, this one was beautiful. I don't mind the overweight, since the aesthetic genome transcends such petty concerns. A true piece of art.

 

[Coma]

Re: My go-to store had a Peavey T-60

 

[Nostalgic Distortion]

Re: My go-to store had a Peavey T-60

That's definitely a cool one!!! I played T series Peaveys on & off all throughout my teens because they were pretty cheap back then & really great guitars overall!!!

I kinda wish that I would have held onto a couple of them now seeing as though these days they are selling pretty regularly for anywhere between $400-$800 depending on condition & if they have their original cases. LOL, I don't think I spent more than $100 on any of the ones that I owned & I picked up the best of them for $25 @ a thrift store!

 

[Plessure]

Re: My go-to store had a Peavey T-60

That's definitely a cool one!!! I played T series Peaveys on & off all throughout my teens because they were pretty cheap back then & really great guitars overall!!!

I kinda wish that I would have held onto a couple of them now seeing as though these days they are selling pretty regularly for anywhere between $400-$800 depending on condition & if they have their original cases. LOL, I don't think I spent more than $100 on any of the ones that I owned & I picked up the best of them for $25 @ a thrift store!

This was 770$ according to current exchange rate.

The frets were great btw. More slanted as opposed to vertical relative to most frets. Probably original.

Nifty, but what's up with only two knobs? Phase inversion warrants four knobs. On the other hand, there seems to be no phase inversion switch either. Why did they nerf the light-weight version?

 

[Darg1911]

Re: My go-to store had a Peavey T-60

Great! Hang it off of your amp ...

 

[Plessure]

Re: My go-to store had a Peavey T-60

Great! Hang it off of your amp ...

Why?

 

[Darg1911]

Re: My go-to store had a Peavey T-60

Why?

Seriously?

Because you asked ... https://forum.seymourduncan.com/showthread.php?324140-Great-rattling-stuff-to-hang-on-the-amp

 

[Plessure]

Re: My go-to store had a Peavey T-60

Seriously?

Because you asked ... https://forum.seymourduncan.com/showthread.php?324140-Great-rattling-stuff-to-hang-on-the-amp

You think a Peavey T-60 will produce a nice vibration if hung on an amp? I'm fairly certain that'd be sonically pointless.

 

[Darg1911]

Re: My go-to store had a Peavey T-60

Yes, I think it will. Try it.

 

[Plessure]

Re: My go-to store had a Peavey T-60

Yes, I think it will. Try it.

I will reply with a quote:

"Seriously?"

 

[Darg1911]

Re: My go-to store had a Peavey T-60

You authored that inane thread about hanging things from your amp and now you "seriously" have an issue with my suggesting you hang the T-60 ...

:scratchch

 

[Plessure]

Re: My go-to store had a Peavey T-60

You authored that inane thread about hanging things from your amp and now you "seriously" have an issue with my suggesting you hang the T-60 ...

:scratchch

That's your opinion. It's also off topic.

I understand your feelings.

 

[Boogie Bill]

Re: My go-to store had a Peavey T-60

Weight was an issue with the T-60, but in my opinion, it was one of the best guitars ever made. It is plain, simple...austere even. But they are extremely well-made, durable and versatile. Give credit to Hartley Peavey...this is creative American manufacturing at its best. It really is a landmark guitar.

I never owned a T-60, but I briefly owned a Horizon II in the late-Eighties. It was a beautiful guitar, and I wound up selling it to a very happy student. I really enjoyed the vibrato...indeed all the hardware was top-notch. A Peavey Milestone 12-string is still on my wish list.

If you are ever looking for a budget guitar for yourself, or to recommend to a student, you can't go wrong with a T-60...or any of those '70s--'80s Peaveys.

Bill

 

[ICTGoober]

Re: My go-to store had a Peavey T-60

I can't BELIEVE there are people on this forum that think a miserable, wretched, fricking POS Peavey T-60 is a good guitar. YE GODS! What is wrong with you? Are you you simply trolling us? Peavey made some reprehensible excuses for an electric guitar, but absolutely nothing of quality. It's utterly laughable to think a T-60 is even close to being a good guitar.

 

[MetalManiac]

Re: My go-to store had a Peavey T-60

I can't BELIEVE there are people on this forum that think a miserable, wretched, fricking POS Peavey T-60 is a good guitar. YE GODS! What is wrong with you? Are you you simply trolling us? Peavey made some reprehensible excuses for an electric guitar, but absolutely nothing of quality. It's utterly laughable to think a T-60 is even close to being a good guitar.

Thats Boogie Bill, you'll have to forgive him. He thinks Mesa is the end all be all, better than vintage fender even and thats par for the course he would think an Abysmal guitar like T-60 was "one of the best guitars ever made"..thats one of the most ludicrous statements I have ever heard, and from a supposed 'expert' . I really think all Modern mesas with their relays and switching are over the top and ticking time bombs, and really Mesa made a few lines of quality amps like the Mk's and the older rectos.What can you say, the guy is a legend in his own mind simply by his own perceived association with Mesa..
T

 

[beaubrummels]

Re: My go-to store had a Peavey T-60

Boogie Bill might be able to get some good sounds and good playing out of a T-60 whereas the rest of us would be playing lead disappointment; being tone is in the fingers and all. I tried one back in the day but it was thin sounding for a brick and didn't sound like any records I was trying to emulate at the time so I passed. I've seen Carl Perkins play the hell out of one, though. Got everything from Gretsch to Fender out of it.

 

[Plessure]

Re: My go-to store had a Peavey T-60

I can't BELIEVE there are people on this forum that think a miserable, wretched, fricking POS Peavey T-60 is a good guitar. YE GODS! What is wrong with you? Are you you simply trolling us? Peavey made some reprehensible excuses for an electric guitar, but absolutely nothing of quality. It's utterly laughable to think a T-60 is even close to being a good guitar.

Please note that your post contains nothing even resembling an argument in favor of your position.

Why is the T-60 a bad guitar? It has a beautiful design, versatile circuitry, individually adjustable saddles (unlike many models of the revered Gibson brand) and a great neck. The weight is the only issue i can think of, and that supposedly is better with the coloured versions.

Looking forward to your insight.

 

[Darg1911]

Re: My go-to store had a Peavey T-60

I had a T-15. It wasn't mine actually, it was a girlfriends. It was a short scale student model I think. I got left with it when she left. I don't remember much about it but I'm pretty sure I traded it for something.

 

[Swampy]

Re: My go-to store had a Peavey T-60

I can't BELIEVE there are people on this forum that think a miserable, wretched, fricking POS Peavey T-60 is a good guitar. YE GODS! What is wrong with you? Are you you simply trolling us? Peavey made some reprehensible excuses for an electric guitar, but absolutely nothing of quality. It's utterly laughable to think a T-60 is even close to being a good guitar.

I guess I'm.one of those people.

Ive known of them since the 80's, but I've never picked one up until a year or so ago when one came up for sale locally. I bought it because it was real cheap, its American made and the paint job caught my eye. Heavy? Hell yes it is. Not something I'd want hanging from my shoulder for an extended amount of time. But I can get some really good tones out if it. Its got a nice natural fuzz thing going on in a certain setting. Its a great guitar for recording to get different textures.

 

[daan]

Re: My go-to store had a Peavey T-60

I remember when these were new guitars. I also knew people who had them, since none of us could afford real Fenders or Gibsons. Which were arguably less well made than these guitars at the time. These were the first CNC-made guitars, so the quality was way more consistent than the "big name" stuff. Sure, there were GREAT guitars from the big guys, but for every amazing one, there were a couple dogs. NOt to mention the crappy import stuff flooding the market, too... barely playable plywood things with the cheapest-of-the-cheap hardware (what I started on, of course) The Peavey stuff really doesn't get the recognition it deserves, because me and everyone I knew back in the day wanted F or G brand guitars, no matter what their issues were, so we dumped our off-brand stuff ASAP to get ones that weren't necessarily any better than what we just traded in... Peavey guitars were really well made, the T-60s have a super innovative electronics (coil splitting, phase, etc) that just never broke. Well, unless you REALLY mistreated them... Anyway they were STUPID heavy (back then, the thinking was the heavier your guitar was, the more sustain it would have, so the weight was probably on purpose) because they were mostly natural finsih Ash, they looked like something that got made in shop class. And the necks were REALLY skinny. But the T-series bass I had, got played out every night, brought from hot, dry basement into the cold car trunk, and back into the hot, sweaty club and it stayed rock solid. It barely ever went out of tune, and the jack never malfunctioned. THey were rock-solid tools that musicians could rely on, sold at easily affordable prices. They unfortunately lost most of their value right away, and became totally unfashionable right quick-I knew guys who recorded with them, but wouldn't be caught dead playing one live, if they had anything else to play out with... They were $99 pawn shop specials for decades, and only in the last couple years have become more popular and prices are going up on them. I've had months-old guitars that the neck warped to unfixable levels, even with being kept in climate controlled areas, I've had guitars that the switches and jacks broke more than once, and none of the Peaveys I've had have really given me any problems. Other than back problems from toting them around, or hand cramps from the skinny neck...

TL-DR Peaveys are quality, well built (in the USA) instruments, but pretty much everybody was embarrassed to be seen with them, except unless you HAD to play it, and you replaced it with a brand-name guitar as soon as you could...