The Patriot like the Precision is a no frills simple bass but it's execution is near perfect and more refined that the Precision. I remember selling these new for about $180.00 I think that was a bargain even back then. The Super ferrite pickup is plenty loud, I have yet to try it through a worthy amp. Phone Orders: 87 7 Days a Week/7am to 11pm CT Peavey Learning Center Peavey Artists Email Sign Up Customer Service & Support FREE Shipping with ALL ORDERS OVER 20. The neck is straight as a arrow nice fret work it needed minimal tweaking to get it adjusted to my liking. The two piece maple neck reminds me of a 70's P, not thin like a Fury. Frets have minimal wear, no fingerboard divots. Millenniums,Patriot,Resolite,RJ-IV,Sarzo,3 T40,T45,T20,TL-5,Tragic,Unity,Void,Zephyr5,3 Zodiac. I know 3 Patriot owners who have mahogany bodies. Peavey Cirrus Custom Shop USA Electric Bass Guitar. Early 2000's Peavey USA Cirrus Bass 5 string Bubinga/Walnut-Pau Ferro Fretboard.
The Patriot one says ash or maple bodies. Peavey Cirrus Red Oak Nat Used Electric Bass Guitar From Japan F/S. Some minor scratches and dings but no cracks anywhere. The Peavey manuals are not always 100 correct. Very nice sounding original Super Ferrite pickups. Made in the USA, serial number 03056974 (1987). Patriot - A series of four-string bass guitars, primarily manufactured during the 1980s. These basses are super well made and were designed to go head to head with Fender and import basses of the day. Vintage Peavey Patriot, solid body with 23-frets maple neck and black dot inlays. The bass was filthy they didn't even clean it off but I plugged it in and everything worked so I plonked down the princely sum of $99.00 and brought it home. The mahogany body is one of the more unusual and pretty rare. Source: Own 3 Peaveys, including a Patriot which was my first guitar 35 years ago.I was making the rounds this past Saturday and came across a 1980's Peavey Patriot with a natural oil finish mahogany body, I sold these back in the day at the H.O.G. Yours looks to be missing some pick guard screws, so hopefully nobody screwed with the electronics underneath. They have a strange quirk in that they have 23 frets for some reason. But those Patriots are very strong guitars with great necks and pickups.
And they were relatively inexpensive, so they ended up being starter guitars for a lot of people back in the day. Thirty years later I now know that despite its modest price being made in the USA really did mean it was well made. I think because they focused more on function over form, so some of their guitars aren’t as physically appealing as some would like. Peaveys are under rated in general because they never hit the popularity of Fender, Gibson, etc. I played a lot of Black Sabbath and Metallica on a Patriot, and it sounded great. You can get some very nice clean tones out of them, but you can also get some screaming metal tones with the right gain settings and some help from the right pedal. The pickups look like humbuckers, but they are actually large single coils. They are built in the U.S.A., and they are built to last.
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