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Bummer but I gotta part with my 71-73 musicmaster, I’m pretty sure it’s an original Dakota red spray job on there, all the checking looks right. It’s a player so there’s a lotta songs on it but it’s all original which is hard to find on these basses. Since it bums me out to be selling this I’d...

Can’t believe they got an alnico back!!! wonder if elongated poles are gonna become the norm on the classic if they ever bring that back. Still two gs less than a fender or a Gibson

so i got a vintage musicman, a pre-eb 79, i stripped the truss rod nut. the truss rod was very hard to turn in general and i think it may be that there were only two points catching and so the leverage on the turn was decreased hence the harder to turn problem. pretty sure its stripped or...

So basically I got a truss rod that only turns a half turn either way it’s an old pre eb Sabre, the action is great right now, if anything the neck is too straight. Earlier I was having trouble for a while turning it to straighten the truss rod and now I’ve discovered that there’s just as much...

so my neck action is good right now, i got a vintage bass, skunk stripe truss rod, one piece neck. the neck sounds gorgeous, at one point it was buzzing so i loosened the truss rod, after loosening the truss rod action was a little high for my liking so i tried to tighten it again and theres...

I got two basses with the same Materials basically. Same exact pickups only difference between the preamps is the caps are tantalum in one. Only real significant difference besides that is one has an audio pot and one has a linear pot, the linear pot one sounds much darker. I play with the...

So my 79 Sabre’s preamp has suddenly stopped working, I just bought the dang thing too a few months ago. Was sold to me as not modded but someone modded it. Anyways brought it to a tech with some wiring diagrams and stuff and they wired it stock, removed the 500k pot, removed the series...

Just checking so for sure you can’t kill a musicman style preamp from wiring it wrong or anything right? Bass was making sound before operation, now it’s not, somethings probably wired wrong, hoping it xan be killed that way etc

I’m going to physical therapy for these two what I believe to be Repetitive stress injuries. So I was unemployed for a month and played about 9 hours of music a day, and I think it was my drumming technique that did it, but both wrists hurt a lot now, I’m getting the nerve conduction test to...

So I finally confirmed that this pickup was the last original piece of the electronics in my 1984 when I first got it but this pickups wiring has been changed. It was wired in series. my question is can I reverse this, the original owner had removed the yellow wire that connects the two coils...

Someone basically modded the bass I got before I got it, they modded the pickup wiring so that they could put in a series parallel switch, I wanted to remove this mod. Basically they cut this yellow wire and extended the two sides all the way to the preamp cavity on this musicman Sabre bass...

So my guess is that if it’s a 6 point 2 setting toggle switch any 6 point 2 setting toggle switch will do correct? It doesn’t have to be a particular toggle switch correct?

So to get the answer, there’s probably no difference in sound between the two right? I’d imagine that if it’s shimmed it’s shimmed. Luthier believes partial shims create ski jumps, the bass I have has strong magnets and can’t be played above the 12th fret anyways so I’m not worried, you hear a...

So I got a bass that has a micro tilt on it, luthier says they would prefer to shim it rather than use the microtilt, it’s a vintage bass so I’m wary about doing mods of any kind, I’ve heard shims change sound and that micro tilt can chew out the neck pocket over time, shims arent permanent...

Everything is original, it’s in great condition pickup covers right ear on the top pickup is cracked, can’t lower that pickup, can’t get a new cover cause it’s a 79 Sabre, what do I do? Talked to my luthier and they said they’d check it out

It’s an incredibly terrible bass, someone put a short scale epiphone neck and bridge on a les Paul body and put god knows what pickup on it. Anyways part of the outermost wires on the coil have been clearly knicked and are coming undone. Will it survive? I paid 60 dollars for this at a garage...

Just wondering myself, I’d imagine that the necks would sound pretty identical if two necks ever could sound the same. I’d imagine the slightly smaller amount of wood probably wouldn’t make much of a difference right? got some money and am probably about to buy a dream bass! So any opinions...

So someone at one point tried to convert it to a p( ‍Facepalm ) and routed a p pickup and the p pickup goes into the original pickup routing, the neck is a mess, definitely needs to be refinished(and some person who believed the string dampener was lowering the d and g strings volume had drilled...

Over adjusted a musicman style humbucker and it appears the casing cracked, sounds the same, hasn’t lost volume or started sounding weird should everything be ok?

Got some gnarly warble that persists on a bass no matter how low the pickups are? Could it be a bad string? Not sure what else could cause this, maybe wiring? It’s a pre eb Sabre fwiw. I’ve heard of wolf tones and everything too but I’m pretty sure it’s not pickup height, had those guys a...

I’ve been seeing them around more and more, the sixteen pole double jazz style ones where it’s all one pickup. There’s one like that in the 84 Sabre and the Sabre classic, was wondering if it started there actually? My only other guess would be maybe the Gibson thunderbirds but those were...

Bought an old 80s Sabre and have found white residue in some spots, it smells like a basement sorta, I just chalked it up to a bad case, haven’t taken off the neck cavity but I did notice similar white residue around there between the neck and the pickguard. but this pickup lever is absolutely...

So I own a gorgeous sounding 84 Sabre and it has pickups from a 79 in it. I wanted a bass that sounded like it that I could also take parts from if anything happened to the 84 so I got a beautiful reissue. The reissue sounds close but not as nice I think, there’s a lot of reasons but I did...

I think it might have had a better neck, but in the shop the classic didn’t sound as good as the early EB Sabre, but at home I think I like the sound of the classic at my home setup. should I ask for a trade back? Not sure. Feel like the classic got the pre eb sound a little better than this...

So gonna buy a bass soon and gonna inspect the pickups, I just unscrew the screws all the way look at the pickups put the spring back in then the screw over it again and it should work right?

seeing if anyone wants to trade a black Sabre classic for an eighties Sabre, willing to pay the value difference and stuff(about 3-500), wanna see if anyone wants to trade for a different colour or a newer bass

I’m in the chicago area and was wondering if anyone’s seen any at any shops, trying to figure out if I wanna get one or not, in between pole pickup setups sound great and if anyone owns one and would be cool with me demoing it or if anyone has seen one lemme know! wondering how much different...

So I’ve been playing this thing the same as I always have an it appears I’ve woken up to a situation where the e string distorts in an ugly way. Played multiple basses through it and same thing with all of them. Since it’s a cl I run the master at full blast the gain at 8:00 and the volume on...

So I’ve been playing this thing the same as I always have an it appears I’ve woken up to a situation where the e string distorts in an ugly way. Played multiple basses through it and same thing with all of them. Since it’s a cl I run the master at full blast the gain at 8:00 and the volume on...

Howdy talk bass, anyways only the top Fret buzzes on this bass, no matter what I snap the neck to, is it a bad fret? Anyway to get this top fret to stop buzzing on me? It’s across all 4 strings and just the first fret. Fret looks like it’s not in too bad of shape physically

will a single mm make much of a difference? just trying to figure out how much it actually makes a difference to raise it one mm or not

So I’m trying to figure out if the original owner of the 84 Sabre I have had switched out all the electronics or just a lot of them. Has anyone here seen what the neck pickup for a Sabre looks like under the pick guard? A small description could help here a lot! Springs or no springs, open...

So I got an extra pickup for an 85 Sabre, as a result of a complete doofus swapping out the bridge pickup and the pre-amp and maybe even the neck pickup I bought a set of the 79 sabres pickups, the neck pickup is different on the 79 but I’m hoping to god that they didn’t swap that out with a...

So I bought a 84 musicman sabre that some doofus modded a bunch, for god knows what reason they switched out the pre-amp and the original bridge pickup. I was able to find a set of pre Ernie ball era musicman Sabre pickups, the trouble is that I only need the bridge pickup and me and the guy...