Our ‘79 Sabre is getting an electronic rehab with full L-2000 mods1

Our ‘79 Sabre is getting an electronic rehab with full L-2000 mods. I think I’m gonna call it El Sable (“sah-blay” is Spanish for Sabre). El is the play on words like El Toro was to an L-2000. You G&L bass geeks know what that’s about.

Anyway, each pickup will have 4+1 leads like an L-2000 with SCM (single coil mode, aka K-mod) and all new pots, preamp and switches for L-2000 functionality. Check out that tinfoil held on with Scotch tape...yikes! One coil needs rewinding and my brother Johnny is doing that right now. Carmen already soldered up the control assembly. She started here in ‘85 so this Sabre missed her by a few years. Memo has the other pickup’s coil leads done and next will be the pickup grounding.

I think this will sound way better than it did back in ‘79. I can’t wait to play it!