 PEAVEY | | ELECTRIC: T SERIES | | The T series guitars and basses were originally designed by Chip Todd in 1977, and debuted at the 1978 NAMM show. The three prototypes shown were T-60 and T-30 guitars, and a T-40 bass. Chip Todd was primarily an engineer who repaired guitars on the side. Todd was hired out of his Houston guitar repair shop, and initially handled the drafting and design by himself. Hartley Peavey had a great deal of input on the initial designs, and the tone circuit was invented by noted steel guitarist Orville Red Rhodes. Todd was eventually assisted by Gerald Pew, Bobby Low, and Charley Gressett. According to researcher Michael Wright, Chip Todd left Peavey in 1981 and currently works in the TV satellite electronics -- although he does have a new patent on guitar design that he is considering applying for. Peavey's initial concept was to use machinery to control efficiency and quality control. Borrowing an idea from gun manufacturing, Peavey bought a controlled carving machine to maintain strict tolerances in design. In a seeming parallel to the Fender debut of plank guitars and other derisive comments in 1951 leading to the other manufacturers then building solid body electrics in 1952, the guitar industry first insisted that you can't build guitars on a computer! A year later, everybody was investigating numerical controllers (and later the CAD/CAM devices - now CNC machines). If Leo Fender is the father of the mass produced solid body guitar (among other honors), then Hartley Peavey is the father of the modern solid body production technique (source material courtesy Michael Wright, Guitar Stories, Volume One). | | T-15 | | - double offset cutaway body, bolt-on bi-laminated rock maple neck, 20-fret fingerboard, six-on-a-side tuners, cream and black laminated pickguard, two oversized in. blade in. style single coil pickups, master volume knob, master tone knob, three-way pickup selector switch, chrome hardware, available in Natural finish, 23.5 in. scale, mfg. 1981-83. |
| T-25 | | - double offset cutaway body, bolt-on bi-laminated rock maple neck, 23-fret fingerboard, 24.75 in. scale, chrome hardware, 6-on-a-side tuners, two double blade style humbucking pickups, master volume control, two tone controls (first for the neck pickup and the other for the bridge pickup), 3-way pickup selector switch, available in Natural, Sunburst, Sunfire Red, or Frost Blue finishes, mfg. 1982-83. |
| T-25 Special | | - similar to the T-25, except features a black phenolic fingerboard and black laminated pickguard, available in Gloss Black finish, mfg. 1982-83. |
| T-26 | | - double offset cutaway body, bolt-on bi-laminated rock maple neck, 23-fret fingerboard, 24.75 in. scale, chrome hardware, 6-on-a-side tuners, three blade style single coil pickups, master volume control, two tone controls (first for the neck pickup and the other for the bridge pickup), five way pickup selector switch, available in Natural, Sunburst, Sunfire Red, or Frost Blue finishes, mfg. 1982-83. |
| T-27 | | - double offset cutaway body, bolt-on bi-laminated rock maple neck, 23-fret fingerboard, 24.75 in. scale, chrome hardware, 6-on-a-side tuners, two in.blade in.style single coil pickups and one double blade style humbucker, master volume control, two tone controls (first for neck and middle pickups and the other for the bridge pickup), five way pickup selector switch, available in Natural, Sunburst, Sunfire Red, or Frost Blue finishes, mfg. 1982-83. |
| T-27 Limited | | - similar to the T-27, except features upgraded electronics and a rosewood neck, mfg. 1982-83. |
| T-30 | | - double offset cutaway body, bolt-on bi-laminated rock maple neck, 20-fret fingerboard, 23.5 in. scale, 6-on-a-side tuners, three blade style single coil pickups, master volume knob, master tone knob, five way pickup selector switch, available in Natural finish, mfg. 1981-83. |
| T-60 | | - double offset cutaway body, bolt-on bi-laminated rock maple neck, 23-fret maple fingerboard, 25.5 in. scale, chrome hardware, 6-on-a-side tuners, two in.double blade in. style humbucking pickups, two volume controls, two tone controls (one per pickup), pickup phase switch, 3-way pickup selector switch, available in Natural, Black, White, or Sunburst finish, mfg. 1978-1988. |
| T-1000 LT | | - double offset Western Poplar body, rock maple neck, 24-fret rosewood fingerboard, Recessed Floyd Rose licensed Double locking tremolo system, 2 single coil and 1 coil-tapped humbucker pickups, master volume control, master tone control, 5-way pickup selector switch, mfg. 1992-94. |
| T-JR (JUNIOR) | | - similar to the T-60 guitar, except featured an octave neck and smaller body dimensions (like a mandolin), mfg. 1982-83. |
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