~ Mike Sabre ~

Mike Sabre was born in 1954 in Paris, to a family of musicians and painters. His father, who was American, took Mike to the USA, were he spent his youth bathed in gospel, Jazz, blues, bluegrass and of course the first cries of rock ’n’ roll.

Back in France at the beginning of the sixties, Mike was more gifted at inventing new toys and working with his hands than excelling at school. He began an apprenticeship in cabinet making at age 17, with an old master craftsman and then continued his studies at the école boule in Paris.

Inspired by the birth of the rock scene, and being a musician himself, Sabre naturally moved into Lutherie and spent some years learning the art of violin & guitar making in various workshops.

For the last 30 years, Sabre has been a ten-hours-a-day professional Luthier, creating some thoroughly personal models of Guitars and Basses, in addition to repairing and setting up thousands of instruments.

Since 1993, Mike has had the tremendous honor and pleasure to work for John McLaughlin, and also with Eric Sempe, a fantastic French guitarist. The models Sabre is proud to present, were conceived in close collaboration with these exceptional musicians. They are the result of a life time of searching for perfection in electric guitar construction, in terms of sound, precision, workmanship, materials and ergonomics.

These instruments are individually hand crafted by Mike Sabre alone.