Sabre with ebony board?

[oli@bass]

Is this for real, or too good to be true?

Rare Pre Ernie CLF MUSICMAN SABRE Bass w/OHSC Jazz Neck - eBay.ch (endet 13.01.09 19:28:57 MEZ)


Have they ever been build with mother of pearl markers, ebony fretboard and ivory nut?

If yes, this is a seriously tempting specimen...

 

[Marco]

I don't have any answers to your questions Oli but the neck on that one looks amazing!

 

[Caca de Kick]

I saw that one too....and I'm going to say, I've seen some repairmen do some nice fretboard replacements. It *could*be, But I'm doubting it.

 

[strummer]

Paging Rod Trussbroken

 

[Aussie Mark]

Something fishy in the seller's answer to the question about the serial number if you ask me.

 

[ekb16b]

Oli, this may be a bit off topic but I was in Japan a few weeks back and came across a few sr4's with ebony boards, I'm not sure if they are Japan exclusive or something but all black sure does look badass.
Might be worth asking around considering you're such a sr4 whore

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[Rod Trussbroken]

As far as I'm aware...

Ebony was only used for Fretless necks and that was from c.1980 onwards (prior to that, the fretless necks were rosewood).

Fretted Rosewood was introduced c.1980 but before that the only fretted necks were Maple.

Narrow necks were only an option on Maple necks.

But with Pre-EB, you can never say never. I know they did one-offs for their dealers. I've also seen a few Fretless Maples which were not generally available as an option.