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07-29-2010, 10:02 PM
|  | Registered Gear-o-holic | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Just north of Baltimore, MD | | | Killer and I Mean KILLER 1979 Musicman Sabre Bass
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This particular bass, I'm on the fence about selling. I may just keep her. She's VERY rare 1979 (pre-Ernie Ball) Musicman Sabre Bass in original and rare Olympic White finish with maple fret board. The Musicman Sabre bass was basically a Musicman Stingray with an additional factory pickup and some factory enhancements to the electronics (three switches for additional tonal options). Comes with an original Musicman hardshell case (this is the optional ribbed-white hardshell case that is also VERY rare). I had to seek out this case and it was not cheap for me to obtain.
All original with the exception of fresh MASTER refret by arguably the mid-atlantic's best luthier Phil Jacoby (formerly of Paul Reed Smith). The bass not only received true spec Musicman frets, but was also finished in Phil's PLEK machine which machines and crowns the frets within thousands of an inch (more info -- http://www.plek.com/en_US/home/ ). The maple fret board was painstakingly stain-matched to the headstock and back of the neck. It's literally a perfect match and you can't see a difference between the tint on the headstock and fret board. It looks totally original. Phil also wanted to give the neck just a hair of tilt, but NOT utilize the tilt mechanism built into the pocket. The mechanism is still there, but it's just adjusted to the no-tilt position. So what he did was cut a custom maple wedge shim for the neck pocket. It's pretty thin and just provide a hair of tilt, while also maintaining full contact between the neck and pocket. Tilt is also perfect. This is superior to using the tilt mechanism is it provides better contact and does not cause the dreaded "fret push" in which the pressure on a focused area pushes the frets in that area up. All of this work was VERY expensive and took a long time, but it was done right by one of the best luthiers in this country. Heck the PLEK process alone is about $200ish most places and then factor in the labor for the fret board planing, stain matching, clear coat, frets, custom cut maple shim, setup, new strings, etc. This cost me a small fortune! ;-)
With the exception of the Professionally replaced frets (which is a good thing), the bass is 100% original. Whoops, almost forgot that she also got new, foam mutes. These fetch $2100 - $2500+ on Ebay because the first generation versions are so rare. Case is missing one of the rivets for the carry handle (but that can be replaced easily). Nut is original. I'll take $1899 FIRM! The frets are FRESH and will last you for decades to come. Behold!!!!!!!                   
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07-29-2010, 10:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: New Hope, MN | | | WOW!!
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07-29-2010, 10:12 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Traverse City, MI | | | STUNNING! Good luck with the sale |
07-29-2010, 10:25 PM
|  | Soaking up the cathode rays... | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada | | Oh dear... Double plus want! Oh to have readily available funds  |
07-29-2010, 10:51 PM
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Message Sent !!!! |
07-29-2010, 11:22 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Vancouver | | Now there's a familiar-looking bass  - i still have seller's anxiety over that one, maybe should've hung on to it.
Damn GAS.....and the white tolex case too, had to be pried out of the Swami's collection. Killer deal.
Free bump, good luck with the sale Quad, all the best.
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07-30-2010, 12:24 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Parma, Italy | | | Weight? |
07-30-2010, 01:08 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Agoura Hills, CA | | | I love seeing a bass that has been PLAYED and not babied!!! Stunning in it's mojo'd self! |
07-30-2010, 07:54 AM
| | Registered Gear-o-holic | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Just north of Baltimore, MD | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Derfel81 Weight? | I'll weigh her when I get home later this eve (I'll try to do it in between getting home from work and leaving for my gig). My shoulder tells me about 9 lbs, but I'll put her on a real scale.
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07-30-2010, 08:44 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: NYC | | you rule,Quad..
JUST when I realllly am set with basses, and need nothing, you come along with something so irresistable,like this.
the two pu's,the color, the checking,the CASE! 
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08-02-2010, 06:31 AM
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Originally Posted by quadrogong you rule,Quad..
JUST when I realllly am set with basses, and need nothing, you come along with something so irresistable,like this.
the two pu's,the color, the checking,the CASE! | My brutha from anotha mutha! What's up Quad? Stay well my friend!
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08-02-2010, 02:11 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Coeur d'Alene | | I told you that you would sell it!
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08-05-2010, 03:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Quadzilla My shoulder tells me about 9 lbs, but I'll put her on a real scale. | Checking for weight again... and asking whether you'd ship internationally? |
08-05-2010, 04:25 PM
| | Registered Gear-o-holic | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Just north of Baltimore, MD | | | Bass is on hold for a TBer. I'll let all of you know what happends.
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08-05-2010, 05:40 PM
| | | | The Sabre seems like an L2000 before there were L2000's. |
08-05-2010, 05:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Dave Campbell The Sabre seems like an L2000 before there were L2000's. | Believe it or not, they are quiet different animals tonally speaking.
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08-05-2010, 08:44 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: The Motor City | | | Dude,
Last year this time this would have lasted only long enough for me to see it. Now I have two.
Good luck with the sale!
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09-08-2010, 06:45 AM
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Is it sold?
PM me if it isn't.
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09-08-2010, 07:06 AM
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Originally Posted by MikeBass Quad-ly.....what's up with this bass???????
Is it sold?
PM me if it isn't. | Sold, gone, kaput! Sorry Mike!
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