Similar to the SC-1 being the little brother of the SC-2 ‘entry level’ guitar, G&L introduced the single pickup 1st style SB-1 bass in parallel with the 1st style SB-2. With its slab soft maple body without contours, Locktight (Saddle-Lock) bridge, hard-rock maple neck with 7½” radius maple fingerboard, 34” scale length, 1¹¹⁄₁₆” nut width, volume control, and tone control, this simple bass had the same Jazz-bass style Magnetic Field Design (MFD) single-coil pickup with adjustable pole pieces. Only produced between 1982 and 1984, 1st style SB-1s built at the tail end of this period have their serial numbers printed on the neck plate instead of the bridge and were available in more than four colors as evidenced by the Three-tone Sunburst finish on this one. It is save to assume that similar to the 1st style SB-2, only few SB-1s were produced although still not warranting the Rarebird status on the Guitars by Leo website. In mid-1985 the SB-1 was upgraded to have a contoured body, pickguard, and single split-coil Precision-bass style MFD-pickup. It was available until 2000, only to be reintroduced in 2009 unchanged. The webpage for the current version is available at:

http://glguitars.com/product/sb-1/.