NGD: Sabre Guitars SSM-1 (Extremely pic heavy!)

[flexkill]

Very nice!

 

[Envy_xo]

Man, this is so good, congrats Shreyas and well done to Christian at Sabre for such brilliant work! It was a joint effort I have no doubt Also, once again great choice with the swamp ash, I bet it sings!

 

[Watty]

The back almost looks better than the front man....dat asssssh.

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Everything else.

 

[the_heretic_divine]

Pure. Sex. I SO wanna dim the lights down low with that thang.

 

[Hendog]

Man, that thing is really nice...

 

[Discoqueen]

Oh my. I came in with no idea what was about to happen. From the first shot I was like, '...shit...' lol. HNGD!!!!! That thing is a monster!

 

[Khoi]

Build quality looks absolutely incredible. HNGD!!

 

[Erockomania]

OH HEYOES YAYAH!!!!!!

 

[EarlWellington]

What's the neck profile on it? Looks different?

 

[ShreddyESP]

Haha, no ones going to let go of that toggle shot aye?

As someone mentioned above, the string spacing was a bit narrower than I usually like. This was due to the fact that I overlooked the measurements during the first drafting of the spec sheet, but Chris is building me a new nut with the string spacing that I am used to. I'm so glad that i'm able to do this with Chris while i'm still in England.

The neck profile is the EndurNeck profile, designed by Ola Strandberg!

 

[Walterson]

I have been following the build thread, very nice work. Simply amazing!

You know, I'm a little nitpicking some times, the builder stated he wants to improve and the Pictures are to good..... so here it goes:

I would love it 100% more if the end of the fretboard:

would look like this:

The headstock needs to be slanted sidewise to achieve it. Much cleaner in my opinion.

This has been pointed out before, the nut is to short:


The outer strings do not follow the edge of the fretboard. This may be fixed with the new nut:


Final Sanding the fretboard edges? Looks like wood fibres pointing out....

Final sanding the top? This shoud be done in the direction of the grain. A random oribtal sander does not work for this kind of work. There are many small scratches in diferent directions every where..... and there is a small split between the binding and the top.

Cheers
Walt

 

[witeter]

Endurneck + Fanned frets + BKPs + Dat Inlay = EPIC
Glad you dig it Shreyas!
dont dis the toggle switch guys, it adds a round bottom end with a crisp attack in the mids and a defined yet not sharp high end to da tonez....

 

[drjeffreyodweyer]

Beyond stoked. This is disgusting

 

[Santuzzo]

Good lord, that looks amazing!!!!

 

[Malkav]

I really hope to improve and expand my skills with each instrument. At the end of the day I'm only building these things so guitarists will LOVE them so I honestly love to hear the truth about what you guys think and I'd be stoked to know if people think I can improve my designs/ideas in any way.

Floor's open lads!

I already feel like a douchebag for pointing this out, and maybe I'm just being a little nitpicky cause honestly the guitar is stunning and is probably miles ahead of anything I've ever touched, but the actual crowning of the frets looks like it could do with more attention. They're just too flat, it would be a lot better for intonation if they had better crowned tops, these look like they've just been leveled but not recrowned correctly...

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[Dalcan]

Absolutely gorgeous.

 

[Eclipse]

I followed the build thread for this. That inlay is great!

 

[sear]

Somehow I don't wanna know how much it cost.

 

[LetsMosey]

Whoa, that's awesome! Congrats!

 

[ShreddyESP]

Somehow I don't wanna know how much it cost.

You'd be surprised mate. They're definitely cheaper than you'd expect. The base model "Ghost" starts off at around 1100£ which includes:

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If you want this exact model, wait a couple of weeks, something exciting is brewing at the Sabre workshop!