Leo Fender did not invent the electric guitar; he didn't even invent the solid-body electric guitar. But he did invent the bass guitar in 1952 and he called his first bass The Precision Bass because it was the first bass instrument to offer the precise intonation that was possible with a fretted fingerboard.

G&L was Leo Fender's last guitar company and the SB2 was Leo's last stab at the Jazz Bass concept. This one has a three-color sunburst finish over a light-weight ash body with a bolt-on maple neck. The controls are the simplest: There are separate volume controls for each pickup, with no other tone control.

The pickups are some of Leo's later designs, with a single coil magnetic field pickup at the bridge and a humbucking version of the split-coil Precision Bass pickup lying further forward.