Review taken off Reverb found the info very useful... Welcome one and all, what we have here is an absolutely stunningly built guitar.  Most people know Peavey as the pound-for-pound leader in tough as nails, hard to kill audio products used by the common man since atleast the mid-70's.  What people don't give Peavey nearly enough credit for, is what fantastic pieces of American craftsmanship their guitars are. US-built Peavey guitars have not gotten their due must be solely due to the fact that no-one out there knows they exist.  Let's talk about quality for a second.  This guitar is ENTIRELY US-BUILT, Solid body-solid maple neck (absolutely fantastic neck shape).  While 80's style floating tremelo's may not be your thing, no one can deny that on MOST guitars of this price point, even vintage or well-loved Japanese instruments from the 80's, most of the floating trem's were slightly less expensive versions of their full fledged German or US counterparts.  Not this guitar, this has the granddaddy US-built Kahler trem, and it's a serious piece of machinery all on it's own (and worth a penny or two by itself), including the original arm.  While most guitar companies are content with building a good body and neck (and sticking in whatever single coil or humbucking pickup they can source or re-brand), Peavey went the extra step and designed a set of pickups which are singularly fanastic sounding, US-manufactured, and knock-out fantastic in build quality and tone.  Here's the other part, you can't find them on anything except mid 80's Peavey's.  The switches and potentiometers are all top quality, no imported/cheap/light duty units, these will take a lickin' and keep on tickin'.  The wiring harness is beautifully and cleanly hand-wired (quite a difference from most guitars in this price range).  Let's talk about the neck pocket, can you say tight as a snare drum?  For those not in the know, cheaper instruments have sloppy pockets.  Now, sloppy pockets, and wood screws do not mix, and if you want to go the extra mile for a rock solid bolt on joint-you do what Peavey did with this thing.  This guitar uses threaded metal inserts cleanly imbedded into the neck to make this thing STRIP PROOF.  This guitar also utilizes a neck angle post-adjustment, much like many other companies (danelectro/fender).  The difference (once again superior engineering) is that they use a fine point and a special detente in the angle plate tozero in that angle point so it doesn't walk around.  CAN YOU SAY OVER ENGINEERED! the quality of the routing, no spare wood has been removed anywhere.  The single coil pickup routes even minutely have a small detente for the height adjustment springs (WHAT?!?) The wiring layout also facilitates any combination of the three pickups your heart could want, as well as a handy on/off/on(tapped) setup for the bridge humbucker.  The jumbo frets (newly polished) are in great overall shape and have tons of life left in them.  The paint job on this guitar is a beautifully applied silver metallic gunmetal grey, which when offset with the solid black hardware makes a much more classy combination than most guitar from 1987 can hang with.  You wouldn't feel cheezy playing this thing out (as opposed to something overtly pointy, neon, or airbrushed).  This thing is spot on intonated, and setup so easily and plays so extremely well it's absolutely shocking.  So, not only is this guitar outstanding, but the case is form fit, built like a brick-out house, has solid tough as nails hardware, and is light but extremely protective.  Let's put it this way, if you built this guitar today, you could expect to pay WAY OVER $1000 retail, and that's simply the truth.  The designer of this guitar went on to produce the Wolfgang series of guitars, which seem to be the only Peavey guitars that are getting their due as of late (why I have absolutely no idea).  And for those who love the T-60, as I do as well, this thing is EVERY BIT the guitar thoseare (in my mind far more giggable).  In short, this is a build quality and components more in line with US G&L, Musicman, Heritage, PRS level instruments rather than Schecter, Epiphone, or Squier.  This guitar will humble instruments 5 times it's price.  You simply cannot go wrong.  I can only surmise that someday these will finally be recognized for being as absolutely fantastic as they truly are.  Don't be a sheep, get yourself something nice for penny's on the dollar.  As a collector myself, I HAVE to believe that these have simply been overlooked, because as a luthier I can seriously tell you, these US built higher end Peavey models from this time period( and not ALL are necessarily the same) are absolutely top notch.  This is one I kind of hope sits around for a while, I'm almost considering buying a parts version to back engineer the pickups (they really are that good).  Condition of the finish is beautiful, but it has been played.  Has some slight buckle worming from play on the back, and various small dents and dings.  The hardware is super clean, no stripped hardware ANYWHERE, but as evidenced by the finger wear on the switches, this thing was gigged but well taken are of.  It's what I like to call perfect Journeyman Used condition.  Finish is bright, clean, small dents and dings and normal playing wear, but really quite clean overall, hence the VG condition vs. Excellent.  Ugh, before I change my mind......COME AND GET IT!    (please, quickly!)