Sabre on EBay

[prickly_pete]

I wish Music Man would make a new version. I don't like the flimsy bridges on the current Stingrays.

Wow, I don't think of the current MM bridges as "flimsy."

 

[Mobay45]

Wow, I don't think of the current MM bridges as "flimsy."

+1

 

[jongitarz]

Yeah...I don't understand that at all.

 

[midopa]

I think RetepV is talking about how the current MM bridges don't have any sides to 'em to keep the individual saddles in line. I remember the saddles on my old StingRay would shift a little towards the G-string side, though it didn't really affect anything. ... I'm wondering if I'm making sense now!

 

[prickly_pete]

I think RetepV is talking about how the current MM bridges don't have any sides to 'em to keep the individual saddles in line. I remember the saddles on my old StingRay would shift a little towards the G-string side, though it didn't really affect anything. ... I'm wondering if I'm making sense now!

Hmmm, I think he meant that it does not have enough mass to transfer string vibration to the body. Anybody who has ever put a Badass bridge on a Fender Jazz can attest to the snakeoilyness of this type of thinking. A heavier bridge would just add weight to the bass.

 

[bdgotoh]

I had an early EB Sabre years ago that had the same pickup config as that pic of Tony Levin, so it may not be custom. The EB Sabres have different pickups in the neck and bridge position - the bridge looks like the preEB with 8 large polepieces but the neck has 16 small poles like a Jazz bass pickup. That's another reason the EB Sabres sound different than the pre-EBs. My assumption of how the mix of uncovered and covered pickups came about is they had extra preEB pickups but wanted to use the new neck pickup so they used up the old style in the bridge position only. They couldn't put a new closed cover on the old pickups because the poles stick out on the old ones and are flush on the EB era bridge pickups.
Just to mix it up even further, I know a guy who has a Cutlass II that has yet another style of neck pickup with bar magnets!