Prior to his work on Star Trek, Sabre worked as hair stylist on the television series Faerie Tale Theatre (1984), Valerie (1987), and Tall Tales & Legends (1985-1987, with Joy Zapata). He also worked as hair stylist on the comedy The Marrying Man (1991, with Janice Alexander, Jim Kail, and Monty Westmore), several episodes of Home Improvement (1991), and the comedy Mr. Saturday Night (1992, with Richard Alonzo, Hazel Catmull, Audrey L. Anzures, Steve LaPorte, Todd McIntosh, Mike Smithson, and Dayne Johnson). In 1992 Sabre won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Hairstyling for his work on the Disney channel series Adventures in Wonderland, which he shared with Tish Simpson.