Peavey Fury Bass

Generic Made in USA 1989 Fury, broomstick neck, P pups, F style bridge w/ one mismatched saddle, F style tuners that have developed a rattle. Cheap looking 1 ply pick guard. 21 frets, maple board. Pretty simple. Body wood is poplar, I believe. Not a lot of features, but that's not a negative. It's a P bass clone, black, white pickguard, aftermarket chrome knobs.

I have had a bunch of diff basses. I buy 'em, sell 'em, like 'em, hate 'em, the usual. The old Peav is a keeper. Sound is what the perfect P bass would sound like. The Peavey Pups are hot and sound amazing. I generally run this through a 100 watt Genz Benz rig and always run Ernie Ball med flats on it. I can't say enough about how great the sound is on this poor old thing. People are stunned at what many consider a "starter" bass from Peavey back in the day sounds like. Amazing. Not noisy, original pots and wiring going strong. Used for all types of music. Fat, yummy, tone-tastic.

I got this used for 63 bucks ages ago. It stunk. It was sticky w/nicotine. I scrubbed w/a rag soaked in ammonia and got the smell off. Got some rattley tuners that I silenced by putting drops of super glue in the knobs, reattaching them to their shafts. Neck was missing a screw and the hole was stripped ou. Tooth picks and a mismatched screw and it was good to go. Body is a bit thinner than a P bass, and neck dive requires a fat strap. pretty light overall, though. Really gotta say that the single ply guard was a cheap option on Peavey's part. Body has some dings and dents, neck too. Neck is like a J bass, body is like a P bass. And the action is lower than my LesPaul's - it's uncanny.

Simple as a shovel. Or a canoe paddle. Works great, never, ever let me down. Bullet proof excellentness. Does Peavey still make 'em like this? tI would never go on w/out a backup idf using a Fender product, but this is the craziest work horse ever. Can't say enough about it, quite possibly the best made bass ever.

I HAVE dealt with Peavey, and they were really, really nice. Sen't me a saddle, free! Great people. Same w/their Amp people, outrageously helpful.

I am constantly amazed that this beat up old dog is ultimately my "best" bass. 63 bucks! The sound, playability, reliabilty, quiet pups, etc. make this a crazy winner. Whenever I buy some new fancy big $ rig, I end up comparing it to this bass and it loses and goes to eBay. Freakish.

this is a 1990s USA Peavey Fury precision bass copy. It has a maple neck. First off let me give you the run down of the basses I've owned: 1960s Fender short scale music master bass, 1974 Fender Precision bass, 1980s Japan made Tokai apb-57 57 reissue bass and this one. Of all of these I would choose the Peavey fury as the easiest to play and lightest weight bass. I am convinced Peavey makes the best basses and for the price they are unbeatable.

You can play anything on this. Pickups sound equal or better than any fender. I believe they are alnico magnets. Quiet. Not sure how the shielding is on it but never felt the need to check

Perfect action. Easy to set up. Best neck of any bass I've ever played. If you can't play this bass you need to give up because this is the easiest playing bass out there. Neck is skinny and tiny. So easy to move around on this I love it. The tuners seem to be a little bit more modest than fender or tokai but they've never gone out of tune to me and actually hold tune better than Fender or tokai. Lighter weight than both Fender and tokai. It doesn't feel like a fender though. It does feel a little cheaper all around but plays and sounds much better

It's peavey. That means indestructible. I've heard stories of people dropping these out of four story windows on cement and not putting a dent on them. If I was buying an instrument for my kid or a gigging musician who needed a instrument I could rely on no matter what I would take this bass.

Peavey has always had awesome customer support for any product they've ever sold.

I will keep this bass forever and don't care if people make fun of me. I've had the best and I would take peavey over them. It's like an old dodge or something. It's cheap but it does the job and you can depend on it. I can remember a time when I thought peavey was a joke. I would only play vintage, expensive instruments. Then thought MIJ japan was great (it is but everyone else caught on to it too now people are paying three times what it's worth.) Then I took a second look at Peavey. Hey, there great. $85 I paid for this off ebay and it's like new. A USA made fender copy. I've thought about just buying a bunch of these and putting them in my closet. One should last forever though. If your short on dough, don't play bass but guitar and just one to noodle on get one of these. I will keep this for life and would like to get a foundation to go with it

1987 USA
21 Four string
Precision clone
Volume Tone
Precision
Seymour Duncan Quarter Pound
Passive
Unk
Black w/ White pickguard
Precision
Regular
Standard
Thin
Case

Perfect for Police covers. Can be punchy to slop to growl with tone.
Fender amps.
I can't quite get to the source of the hum at tone wide open no playing.
Warm to bright.
You're gonna need a SansAmp DI to shake the house.
Enclosure is better.
Built like a tank. Somebody stole it once and it was my brother in law. She freaked and I calmed her by saying we could knock down the wall with it and yank it through to the other side and it would still be in tune. I hope eveybody on payday in that mining town played it in the pawnshop that Friday. But I was gonna pawn him if he didn't bring it back. He did and it was relatively in tune. He forgot the case here when he stole it.

I bought this from the internet in some earlier day. When it got here it had a 3x5 card folded up in the neck pocket and the action was crap. One pickup was dead and it had three strings. This thing has come gratefully to life and taught me luthier skills. I added the Basslines and it just sprang to life. It will never leave me. Easy truss rod adjustments with the proper tool.

I guess bricks stay in tune more consistently. But what's the tune of a brick?

I asked them for a truss rod tool and it got here by Friday. Two of them in a hand addressed envelope. AJ on the website answers questions all day long. Fabulous.

Fascinated by thump since Dad had a record player so weak ice in their glasses wouldn't rattle.
Yeah, why don't we see more old Peavey's on stage?
If stolen I'd go get one off the pawn shop wall tonight, even if it wasn't open. I know I'd get out.
It's like a precision, really, but with a playable neck. Chose because I was poor but can play. So I had to budget. I sought cheap and American and ebayed. Have since upgraded to other bass names but I keep going back to that sound. It's unique and versatile.

Made in USA, 1984/85 Peavey Fury bass - I believe this is a series 1
Passive electronics, 1 Peavey Super Ferritte humbucking pickup, 1 volume 1 tone
3 piece contoured body, maybe ash. Precision style with sharper horns.
Maple neck, maple fretboard, thin Jazz/Ibanez type neck
Natural finish
Schaller tuners, chrome hardware, graphlon nut
Molded hard-shell case

It has everything I need, but I suppose there are other features for a bass so I'll give it an 8.

Since it was the first piece of equipment I ever bought, I've used this bass with every piece of equipment I've ever had. I ran it through a Peavey TNT 130 when I was a kid, a Sunn stack when I played professionally, and a Crate bass amp when I was poor. I'm currently using a Trace Elliot RAH250SMX with a Hartke 4.5xl cab. The tube amp responds best with a great passive bass for that incredible growly tone. I've never played a bass that does that better than the Peavey, but I hope to build one someday.

Great passive precision/jazz Steve Harris/Geddy Lee sound. Tone for days. I've recorded and played live with it. It's light, well-balanced and durable. The Peavey is my favorite bass in the world. I've spent a lot of money on other basses I've wanted, and none of them can top the Fury.

The bass was a floor model, and I chose it because the three pieces of wood were perfectly matched. It looks like a single piece of wood. The chrome hardware still looks as good as it did 20 years ago when I bought it. This bass was perfectly set up, and so was the one they pulled out of the box in the back that didn't look as good as the floor model.

This bass is a tank. It was built back when Peavey built everything in their plant in Meridian, Mississippi and they used the best tools, the most critical quality-control and had to do it better than everyone else in order to survive.

I bought it with saved up lunch money when I was in eighth grade. I've done everything to this bass. I accidentally launched it across a friend's front yard trying to throw the bass over my shoulder like Steve Vai, not realizing I needed strap locks. I snapped all the strings off it in high school, threw it across a room in college, caught it in a ceiling fan jamming at a friend's house in junior high school, I've refinished it at least five times, put stickers on it, taken it apart 10 times, replaced the pots in it (I didn't know all I had to do was clean them), and it always comes up grinning, and always sounds great. I've never had to adjust the truss rod in 20 years. The ceiling fan bent the shaft on one of the tuners so it doesn't turn as well as it used to, but it stays in perfect tune. I've bought other basses, but when I want the best tone I always go back to my Peavey.

I did break one of the plastic tabs off the back of the pickup and had to put a flat washer under the back of the pickup to hold it to the pickguard. The pickguard itself has warped over the years, either from all the paint and chemicals I've put on it, the number of times I've removed it, or just plain old wearing out.

I also modified the hold-down for the D and G strings with flat washers years ago. I don't remember why I did it, but I met Billy Sheehan at one of his gigs in Austin and he suggested it to me. You'd think I'd remember the conversation better, but I do remember that it improved the way the bass played. How cool is that?

I took it apart about two weeks ago and I'm converting the finish to blueburst and re-fretting it. It doesn't really need re-fretting, but I need the practice. I'm also going to tru-oil the back of the neck to give it that old American Charvel feel. The fact that none of the wood has ever cracked or split or broken with all the abuse I've given it is amazing.

The hard-shell case is moulded polyethelyne I think. It's indestructable, but the rod that keeps the lid from opening too wide popped out after about 8 years and the foam lining of the top came loose and I had to glue it back down. That said, it's in better condition now than my Ibanez case was after a year. I think the case was free with the bass.

I bought a truss rod wrench and a new graphlon nut about two months ago. Peavey was incredbly helpful and friendly. The parts cost next to nothing and they shipped them quickly. Their website also has loads of information, manuals, and a forum with mods to answer questions.

I've had this bass for 20 years now. I can't believe it. I skipped lunch for a year and played bass on an electric guitar while I had this bass on lay-away. I got lucky that the only music store in walking distance from my house was a Peavey dealer.

If this bass were stolen, I'd scour the earth for another one. If my restoration goes well, I'll probably buy another one or maybe a Foundation from the same era.

I had a friend that bought a black Precision at about the same time and we couldn't keep the neck straight or the hardware from coming loose. It sounded good but it was a piece. I've never regretted buying the Peavey. Of course I dreamed about it for a year before it was mine. I'd go to the music store to visit it. I certainly can't say I haven't gotten more than my money's worth out of it. Now it's a classic. Maybe it'll be worth what I paid for it someday! Doesn't matter because I think it'll probably be cremated with me. If the urn rattles, it's those indestructable machine heads.

This is a 1984 Fury bass, before they started making them with the split P pickup. Mine has the slanted, 'super ferrite' pickup. Made in USA. 21 frets, 4 string. Volume and Tone control, Passive electronics. Your simple 'P' style bass setup. Not a ton of features but just what you need...No nonsense.

Mine has the natural wood finish, with triple-ply black pickguard, and maple neck and fretboard. The body is a nice thick slab of Ash...with a nice satin finish over it. Tuners are very Fender like, yet nicely compact. Regular '34 inch scale. Neck is chunky like a P-bass neck but not overly fat.

This thing screams vintage Fender P tone. The slanted 'super ferrite' is pretty hot for a passive pickup. BIG low end thump, with clear and crisp highs. Not much in the way of midrange, but if you want mid-heavy tone you should be looking into a Jazz style bass anyways.

I play a little of everything...and this bass is great for any kind of fingerstyle funk, reggae, punk, ska or rock music. Perfect sound for classic rock...very vintage. For louder genres like thrash metal and such...it would hold it's own, but I would want the higher output of an active bass.

Great pick tone too, for all you punkers out there.

Not much variety in the tone, but like any P-bass...this bass was meant for simplicity. The tone knob is pretty much useless. Turning it down basically changes the basses' awesome tone to mud. So just leave it cranked. Not at all noisy through a good quality amp.

Bass is 20 years old so I seriously doubt its the factory setup. But action is great as is...no adjustments needed. Seems like it was recently setup by someone who knew what they were doing. I had to adjust the pickup a tad because it was a little too close to the strings for my liking, but thats purely preference. The pickup mounting ring doubles as a great thumb rest!

The body is a gorgeous slab of Ash, with nice wood grain showing. Suprisingly light compared to my other basses.

Construction is top notch like most Peaveys from '78 - early 80's. To steal a quote from a similar old peavey review, this thing is "built like a soviet T-40 tank on its way to berlin." If you closed your eyes and played this bass, youd think you had a $1000 USA Fender in your hands.

This bass will absolutly withstand the toughest live playing and road abuse you could dish out. Hardware is rock solid. I dont trust the strap buttons, though. They look ok, but im just paranoid about dropping basses. Get straplocks if you play live. I play this bass regularly without a backup.

Peavey is one of the best companies when it comes to customer support. You can order the peavey truss rod wrench for only 5 bucks shipped, (you'll eventually need it, you cant use just an allen key for neck adjustments.) although I havent had to use it yet.

You can even find the original owners manual on their website...And they will date your bass with a simple email with the serial number.

I played guitar for about 3-4 years, before getting caught up in the bass world a year and a half ago. I own another peavey bass, a 1987 patriot. A Yamaha BB200 which I defretted, a couple acoustic guitars and a washburn electric. If this bass got stolen id be super pissed and probably look for another one, but I most likely wouldnt find one in this good of shape again.

Old Peaveys are fantastic values. Always on Ebay for cheap because not alot of people know about them. Try to buy between the model years of '78(when they started making them), and the early to mid '80s. In the late '80s their quality may have slipped a little in my opinion, since I also own an '87 peavey bass that still decent is not nearly as solid and reliable as my older Fury.

Typical Precision bass copy with split pickup. Master volume and tone controls. 4 adjustable string saddles on a vintage style folded plate type bridgeplate. Real American hardwood body with maple neck and maple fretboard. The neck is a Jazz style with the thinner profile at the headstock end. Made in the USA.

Typical ?P? bass sound. Real lowdown. Needs EQ on the amp to boost the high end response if that?s what you want, but can?t quite get the ring like a ?J? bass even with some serious fooling with the EQ. High output pickups compared to other ?P? basses I tried.

When I got this guitar it had a few nicks and dings in the wood so I decided to refinish it. It has a tight neck to body fit and upon stripping it down, I discovered a nicely patterned multi-piece hardwood body. I stained it in a medium dark walnut shade and finished it in hand-rubbed satin polyurethane for an oiled finish look. This bass plays wonderfully and hangs real nice ? comfortable and balanced.

Solid Guitar. Looks like it withstood a few years of hard use and survived.

Have never had to contact the manufacturer for anything, but they can be contacted on the internet or direct by phone.

I?m new at owning a bass guitar. I have played over the years but never owned a bass or an amplification system specifically for bass. I?m very quickly becoming ?preferential? as to equipment needs. I like the ?P? style basses. Simple yet solid. No extra pots, switches or BS. I prefer to shape my sound from the amp EQ and the effects on board. I have a Behringer BX3000T 300 watt head which provides that capability.

This is a USA made 4 string Fury, vintage 1983, Peavey's version of the Precision Bass concept. Contoured solid body finished in a black poly, solid white pickguard, maple neck with 4 in-line tuners, and top-loading bent steel bridge. The passive electrics are simply a split P type pickup with a single volume and tone. On the plus side, the maple neck is thin on the order of a J bass; on the minus side, the pickguard (being just 1 piece solid white plastic) appears - and is - cheap. A 3 ply tortoiseshell guard would probably make this look fabulous but it appears Peavey put the value of this bass in its function, not its looks. As I got it, there was no case or bag or even knobs to turn the volume and tone pots but I can't complain since the price was right.

Sound, this is where this bass shines. This is the finest passive bass sound of any I have. There is no noise to the pickups, and each string delivers a rich, full sound that never gets muddy or indistinct. I have only run this through small practice amp but this bass is alive with sound that can be colored with the tone control and where I pick on the strings. The pickup is just the stock original but it has a lot of output, though not on the order of the popular aftermarket types. I've A/B'd this against 2 MIM J basses and a Tele and this is definitely the winner for sound and that elusive element of "tone". Playing this bass is almost effortless, though the fact that I had the nut replaced and the bass professionally set up is likely part of this. Yet, there are certain instruments that just feel right when they're in my hands and this is definitely one of those.

The condition in which I found this bass was dreadful. Part of the nut was broken away at the E string, there were no knobs on the volume and tone pots, only 3 of the 4 screws that hold the neck to the body were present, the bridge was rusty in spots, and the body was scratched and chipped. But, the neck was fairly straight and there were no signicant dents or cracks in the body so, for less than $50, I took a chance. I disassembled everything, adjusted the neck, cleaned the rust off the bridge and the saddles, installed new knobs on the pots, and touched up the chips and scratches on the body with automotive touch-up paint after a thorough cleaning. At that point, I could tell that this bass had live feel, a crisp and distinct sound even though the E string was inoperative. So, I got the nut replaced and the bass set up by a pro and the sound and the feel is magical.
I really don't buy anything new, I much prefer finding a tired and worn instrument and seeing if it can be restored to a semblance of its former glory, such as it might have been. (Rating is as restored, not as found.)

This bass survived over 20 years being treated as something less than a musical instrument. As it's restored, it will definitely handle live play. As the neck is thin and unfinished, I would expect that the truss rod would need tweaking now and again but this isn't a major shortcoming. I haven't gigged in nigh on 25 years now but I never gigged without a backup. Yes, any instrument I used in the day was solid but, in the same way that a police officer carries a backup piece, a musician should always have a backup, just in case the unexpected or unthinkable happens.

Peavey has excellent customer support with someone available via phone or email and manuals available in a PDF format online at their website. I called to order a T-40 truss rod wrench a few days after I'd bought this bass and I mentioned it in passing to the tech to whom I was speaking. He asked me if I had the serial number and I gave it to him as the bass was sitting near me and he said that it was 1983 production. Friendly people and top-notch service.

I started playing way back in the '60s, quit music totally in '79, and only recently got back to fooling around basses and guitars again. I've got 20-odd basses along with about 10 guitars and an indeterminate number of amps. I bought this bass as restoration project and it's been a real surprise as far as the sound and playability go. The only 2 things I'd change on this bass would be the pickguard as the stock one is bland and the lack of finish on the neck. Plain to look at, but sounds great.

Peavey- Made in est. 1995, in USA. Controls. Volume/tone. 1 split pick up. only passive electronics. bolt on neck.

I bought my peavey fury back in 2000 at a pawn shop in baltimore, MD for $125. I bought it for my father. Then i bought a Fender J-Bass/P-Bass. And gave that one to him anf take the Peavey. My fathers been playing nearly twice my age.(I'm 22) Anyway a few days later my father said give me my Peavey back needless to say. I'm leaning to play on the Fender not the cheaper Peavey.

You know the old-school Fury: One "slant" pickup, volume, tone. What else do you need?

The pickup mounting ring is molded with a built-in thumbrest. That's super handy!

The pickup doesn't look to be a standard size, so I don't know if you could even get an aftermarket upgrade. Of course, if you wanted to be anal about it, you could send the pickup to Seymour Duncan himself to custom wind it for you.

The maple neck is a bit on the skinny side, sort of halfway between a Fender Jazz and an Ibanez Soundgear.

The bridge is a bit flimsy. It looks to be stamped metal, rather than machined.

The tuners are solid.

I don't know what the body wood is. I suppose it's alder.

The bass came with a surprisingly solid molded hard case.

Like a P-bass. No surprise, considering the pickup configuration.

Great for just about anything but stuff like fusion or prog rock. But why would you want to play that junk anyhow? Stick with the basics: Motown, Funk, Mullet-rock, anything where you need a nice, warm, round tone.

The pickup gives a little bit of hum, but it's not noticeable in a live setting.

It may just be me, but the tone control is just about useless. It will roll off the highs for you from a well balanced tone to solid mud. I took mine out. I guess I voided the warranty, har har har...

I bought it well used, so I can't really comment on the fit and finish out of the factory. The guy who owned it before me took pretty good care of it. No complaints.

Unless you're a freaking lunatic, this bass should last forever.

One note: You may want to replace the bridge with something a bit more substantial.

Never dealt with Peavey. I've heard good things, though.

A great, simple bass. You want a P-bass but don't want to spend the money? Get this.

This is for a Peavey Fury IV bass. Apparently it's made in Korea, although I certainly can not tell the difference; Korean-made guitar products are notorious for their lack of quality, but this bass outshines most instruments of much high price that I've seen made in the USA. It has 2 active pickups, a volume knob, tone knob, blend pickup knob, and separate controls for bass, treble, and midrange. I subtracted one point on the large amount of features, as this generally gets in my way, and another point because the blend knob for the pickups crackles a little bit when it's turned. Plus, to me, there really aren't a lot of good sounds that you can get coming out of this bass: the neck pickup by itself sounds too transparent while the bridge pickup sounds too trebly and doesn't rumble. Keeping it between both pickups exactly then equalizing it in the amp and adding effects has been the way to go for me.

I've played in two bands with this bass. The first is my band, which does a lot of punk and ska music. I generally find this bass to be extremely well suited to both. I find the setting I mentioned - straight between both pickups - to be one of the most amazing bass tones I've ever heard. If you equalize it right, it blends perfectly with the rythmn of the guitar for punks songs so that you're just thickening up the sound. For ska, it stays just punchy enough to stand out through the treble-dialed guitar but retains warmth. I recorded our demo with this bass on a Roland digital 4-track; the result was fantastic! Drums (with just an overhead area mic) and bass (direct input, no effects or anything, just natural bass sound) sounded completely professional, top-of-the-line. I also did some work for a metal band heavily influenced by Tool. These guys have a little bit better equipment than my high school punk rock band: dual rectifiers, mesa studio preamps, tube power amps, half-stacks, etc. I walked in to the rehearsal with my heavy-ass Peavey TNT bass amp and my Fury IV. After a sound check, the lead guitarist asked me how the hell I had such a good bass tone coming out of my shitty amp. With just a touch of chorus, I was hitting better than their studio-recorded demo's bass tone. With this job, I learned that the Peavey really shines on playing higher frets, playing bass chords, and handling effects like chorus and flange. This is truly an amazing bass!

I didn't really know a lot about basses when I bought this instrument. I just walked into the music store and picked up the affordable one that had the best acoustic sound and action. Stupid of me, I know, but I got a great bass. I had figured I would replace the pickups and electronics if I needed to; there was no need. This bass has the lowest effective action I've ever felt; it's easier to bend than my old guitar.

I've dropped it a lot, and it rarely ever goes out of tune. Feel solid as a rock. Plus, I've never had a Peavey product break on its own accord. I've done stupid things with them, and have watched them break, but they've always held their own to even abusive practice and stage use.

I've never asked for Peavey customer supporr and I didn't read any warranty. This is the first new peavey product I've bought.

This is truly an amazing bass. One of the best values on the market today.