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watch where you point that sabre
After a two week wait.... I finally got my newest Ibanez Sabre :bigthumb:

It's a S1070PBZ CKB 'Premium' model made in Indonesia...



Looks fantastic, sounds fantastic, plays fantastic. It was setup pretty decently except for a slightly higher than ideal action (for me) which I got right down where I want it pretty quick..no problem


It has a really nice solid feel to it & the neck is gorgeous. The Tone Zone /Air Norton pup's are absolutely perfect.... Frets are brilliant & yeah...pretty much a flawless axe as I sort of expected it would be..

This particular one looks beautiful and macabre at the same time...like it spent some serious time at an abattoir (or under a guillotine):lmao:

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Looks great, congrats.

My first real guitar that I bought with my own money was an Ibanez RX, back in the 90s. Sadly I traded it away. I’ve wanted to get another Ibanez ever since. They are super cool guitars. Maybe someday. ;)
 
Thank you all :bigthumb:

Nope, not neck-through ..the skunk stripe is fake lol. It's a bolt-on like ever other Sabre I've ever seen.

Yeah it got here absolutely fine. Thankfully no wooden crate this time (cuz it was hell to open). Just double boxed, encased in 1/2 inch of foam & then bubble-wrapped and taped all over lol. Took me about 20 mins to get it out of there :laugh2:

But man..was it worth it when I did :bigthumb:

And better safe than sorry I guess..

This is my 10th Sabre. They are the best axes ever made imo...so here's to the next 10 :beerchug: :laugh2:

The more I play it the more I am absolutely loving the tone of this beast. I think the TZ/Air Norton combine works here better than in any of the other axes I have them in. Don't get me wrong they all sound great ..but there's some extra mojo going on w/ this one..the way the pups synchronize & resonate w the guitar...it all comes together & feels alive! It all has some of that "natural sustainiac" thing going on like your amp going into harmonic overdrive. My JEM Woody does that too....

Air Norton in the neck (guitar may be a hair out of tune cuz I've only tuned it roughly by ear since I got it out of the box :p)..

...actually, it sounds fine..



I just realized I still have'nt tried the True Velvet single coil in the middle..
 
Nope, just marginally flat ...in that last video..


Never mind I'll do another :laugh2:



Supernautilus said:
Looks great, congrats.

My first real guitar that I bought with my own money was an Ibanez RX, back in the 90s. Sadly I traded it away. I’ve wanted to get another Ibanez ever since. They are super cool guitars. Maybe someday. ​​​​​​​;)
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Thanks!!

While I'm not an Ibanez fanboi per say (Though I do like RG's and a few other models), I'm definitely a Sabre fanboi :p

My Dad bought me my first guitar ..an Ibanez DT250 Destroyer, but The Saber ('94 S540Ltd) was the first one (and second guitar) I bought mostly out of my own pocket. My late wife (then girlfriend) chipped in too, cuz I was a bit short :p. It will always be my absolute favorite guitar not just because it plays as unbelievably well as it does but also for sentimental reasons....though I'm not normally big on sentiment.
 
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True Velvet middle single. It's pretty sweet as far as single coils go....combines really well w/ the hums too..no volume drops or mismatches.






And a few more pics..


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^^ That Zpse gizmo for the trem is a real godsend...so easy to switch the tremolo angle w when you change tunings w/ just a turn of the thumscrew. No unscrewing trem cavity's & fiddling wi/ springs & screws/screwdriver's.

Took me less than a minute to level the bridge when I switched tunings from E standard (what it came roughly tuned to) to Eb which is what all my axes are tuned too..
 
That's one hecka nice guitar!!! Gorgeous woods. Is that neck basically Wenge?

You'd think a guitar that nice would do away with the screws for the back plates and start using magnets. Ever since one of our forum members (Peter Crosley) told me about how he does it, I've been doing it on all of my custom builds too. It is a small thing but a BIG wow factor. Really adds to the quality and custom nature of the guitar.

You've been buying a lot of guitars lately, so how many in total do you have now?

Again, REALLY nice guitar. Congrats.
 
great looking guitar! i usually like the neck on sabres better than the super skinny wizards, how this one?
 
GuitarDoc said:
That's one hecka nice guitar!!! Gorgeous woods. Is that neck basically Wenge?

You'd think a guitar that nice would do away with the screws for the back plates and start using magnets. Ever since one of our forum members (Peter Crosley) told me about how he does it, I've been doing it on all of my custom builds too. It is a small thing but a BIG wow factor. Really adds to the quality and custom nature of the guitar.

You've been buying a lot of guitars lately, so how many in total do you have now?

Again, REALLY nice guitar. Congrats.
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Thank you GuitarDoc!

The neck is basically "Panga-panga" w/e that is. My Cort w/ the Fishman pups has a Panga-panga neck too. It has a different feel to a maple neck for sure. It seems to feel really "solid" w/ no flex to it at all. Not that maple flex's really but this just feels more rigid/solid overall..

Yeah the neodymium magnets on the backplates are kinda cool... definitely looks classy and is obviously convenient too. But then things like the Zpse gizmo make removing the backplate unnecessary altogether..so there's that.

Right now probably about 50..give or take. I have ADHD...so it's probably the 'dopamine hit' new guitar's come with that drives the craze :lmao:
 
jeremy said:
great looking guitar! i usually like the neck on sabres better than the super skinny wizards, how this one?
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Thanks!!

Actually my old S540 probably has the skinninest/flattest original 1 pc. Wizard neck (and I love it!). This one is wizard thin too...though maybe closer to the Wizard II ...but it also has a pretty different feel to it (see above)
 
And now for some symphonic/neoclassical shred-o-rama which is what these guitar's do best :bigthumb:

I know I've said it a couple of times now but I'm REALLY loving the tone of this axe. It's very full and rich and the way certain notes sustain into harmonic overdrive when you bend them it feels really good as a player to experience that..

 
And has a lot of the reviewers on YT have noticed/mentioned ..it's also on the heavier side for a Sabre (which funnily enough, actually are'nt particularly lighweight as guitar's go anyway ...despite their slim size.)
 
Cheers to that...

It's all about the thrills :bigthumb:



Which brings me to Neoclassical outing # 2

Settings are all the same , just a different tune...

 
And now going the other way....

Slow Blues w/ my Vox Night Train 50W head -> Laney Eminence 2x12 cab :D

It's with the Tone Zone & True Velvet pups (bridge-middle pup notch position) selected...

 
Shorter clip w/ my Laney Ironheart 120 head + Bugera 4x12->SM57 (off-axis cuz there were a bunch of my guitars on stands in front of the cab so I just shoved the mic in front diagonally through a gap from one side :lmao:)

Anyway...still sounds killer :bigthumb:


 
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