Sabre 2

[nc_tech3]

Hey all...

First time here. I have a Sabre 2 that has been my main axe for MANY years. My pickups are showing "rust" pockets on the magnets and excessive wear from over the years of playing. Is there something I can do to "clear" the sound up (cleaning solvent on the magnets??) or do I need to replace the pickups?

Anyone know where I can pick up a set of these original pickups?

Thanks!!!

Lee

I play this guitar through a 100 Watt MArshall stack and has been the best bad boy metal sound for the last 25 years. I have heard alot of guitar set-ups. All I play though is my Music Man through a VERY old DOD Chorus pedal and into the Marshall. THAT's it. And I can stand up to any of the "gadget" stuff today. AMAZING SOUND. I have been very lucky

 

[silverburst]

Does it play and sound good? I wouldn't mess with something that is working for you.

 

[SteveB]

NC-Tech,

Hopefully someone from the factory will see this and respond, but ultimately you'll get more immediate attention if you call MusicMan customer service.

I'd love to see some pics of this Sabre 2. I don't think there are many folks (if any) on this forum who have a Sabre guitar!

 

[jongitarz]

I would learn to live with the rust. Those guitars were made before EB bought the company, and were not produced by EB/MM and we don't stock parts for them. Maybe ebay?

 

[Spudmurphy]

Does it play and sound good? I wouldn't mess with something that is working for you.

+1
just keep the worst at bay with a "gnats gonads" full of WD 40 on a cotton wool bud
and rub it into the magnets.

Would love to see some pictures of it?

 

[Spudmurphy]

Just watched a 1970's dvd of Paul Barrere of Little feat playing a musicman at the Rainbow in London- it might be a sabre.
I know he openly thanks EB for all the support they have given Little Feat over the years.

Ahhhhhh to watch Lowell George again - damn shame that he died so young !!

 

[nc_tech3]

Sabre II

Hey all

Thanks for all the great replies. I am quite surprised that there are no Sabre II owners here! I tried to upload a some pics but they are about 250kb JPG and the limit here is 100 for some reason that I don't understand. (Could I get some info on that?)

Yeah, if the rust on the round magnets themselves is not hindering MAX output, (which I do not know), then I definitly won't touch it and rock on...

It is almost a 30 year old guitar and so I just wanted to make sure the motor under the hood is running on all 8 cylinders ( I used to have a '67 Pontiac Le Mans in my "crazier" days

Over the years, I have come to realize that guitar and the amplifier TOGETHER is the instrument...seperately they are what they are, but together they are the instrument. And by dropping in some vintage Celestion greenbacks in my old 4X12 cabinet, running 6550 output tubes , (and new 12 AX7 preamp tubes), in my 1978 Marshall 100 Watt JMP head COMBINED with this Music Man Sabre II strat, and I can just dial in that killer LOW end METAL thunder that I love to hear...

Other guitars do not come close to this set-up. I do have an old 1983 Gibson "THe V" that definitely holds its own TONE for sure, and I like that in some melodic rythum songs over the strat, but 80% of my playing is done with the strat.

The Sabre also stays in tune! I rarely have to re-tune after tuning up once before a gig, and after stretching the hell out of the strings too.

This is the first guitar of its kind that has a built in PRE-AMP, that I use extensively to override the signal to the Marshall...It also has a phase shift switch that runs the signal 180 deg out of phase I believe, but I never use. That is one feature that I did not care for.

This guitar is a PRE-CBS FENDER model from what I understand. So when Leo Fender left "Fender" to start Music Man, the Sabre is his first off-Fender model. This is also way before G&L guitars as well.

If anybody has ANY more info on its history, I would love to hear from you!