I have done a bit of research online and it appears to be a Peavey Grind made in Vietnam.

Peavey Lookup Serial Number NV04030293

The back of the headstock says handcrafted in Vietnam with the serial number NV04030293.

I thought it would be easy to identify from the serial number, but this doesnt seem to be the case for Peaveys made outside the usa.

Any more information you can provide on this instrument would be both interesting and very much appreciated.

Essentially Id really like to know what year it was born and a rough idea of how much its worth so Im not ripping myself or anyone else off.

It was and still is in pretty much perfect nick and I think I paid about 100 for it but it looks like it should be worth a bit more than that - if not, hats off to peavey because it looks and plays great to me.

The Grinds are very good basses though If the wings on the body are a darker wood then its probably Imbuya (brazailian walnut), with a 5 piece maple and mahogany neck.

They have changed the bridges a lot as well, I have one with individual bridge saddles, and a very recent one with a gigantic black chunk of metal for a bridge.

I think it was BCer (and mod ) Shockwave who said that, maybe six months back IIRC someone was selling a six-string Grind Either way, pics would help.

If these arent useful I can retake largerbetter quality in better light tomorrow, and edit them in.

Im a bit of a spoon at doing this but hopefully you can see well enough.

I had a luthier friend make a bone nut and a truss rod cover from some nice wood (I think it was black plastic originally,) both of which Id forgotten about until I started taking these photos.

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The Grind was the successor model and has a different finish inlays, slightly different hardware plus the cutaway area under the neck pickup.

I got my C5 new around 20012002, so I would be quite inclined to think the 04 bit of this Grinds sn is 2004.

Peaveys from this era are very nice, quite closely based on the US-made Cirrus models - Id expect one like this to be in the 200 ballpark.

Jon.

Ive held off posting back because I emailed Peavey with a request for information and was hoping to include their findings.

They color444444fontCalibri, sans-serifsize4said if I sent some photographs they should be able to establish the exact model and roughly when they were produced.

I will happily post their reply ifwhen I get one.sizefontcolor I followed the link to your marketplace kindly provided by alyctes, and having poked around in there, fleabay and the web it seems like 250 isnt an unreasonable ask for this instrument.

Over the last couple of days I have taken the time to look around a bit here, and it seems like you have a very nice, welcoming hangout.

Some of you folks appear to be almost normal (I know this is a relative thing) and trustworthy With this in mind, Im wondering whether its worth offering up the other items Im hoping to turn into money, before resorting to online auctions (which Id rather not do.) Im not entirely sure what the protocol is here but I will be putting up for sale an Alesis multimix16 firewire, 2xYamaha MSP5A powered monitors, 4xShure SM57s and possibly a 1996 50th Anniversary Fender USA Strat and an early 90s Washburn EA20.

Prospective buyers would be welcome to come and see the items (including the bass) If its possible for me to establish that they are genuine and honest.

Thieves and nut-jobs are generally greeted at the door with a baseball bat and a belligerent land-shark, and if that fails to deter I unleash the wife.

Thanks again. If I ever said anything bad about bass players, I take it all back.

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