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Brand | Pensa |
Type | Pensa Custom | |
Year | 1993 | |
Serial number | Unknown | |
Additional info |
The guitar was used during Golden
heart tour in 1996 on Father and son, Golden heart,
Last exit to Brooklyn.
Around 1996, Crate had an advertisement in a guitar magazine in which Mark can be seen with this Pensa guitar. |
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Brand | Pensa |
Type | MK2 (precursor model) | |
Year | 1996 | |
Serial number | MK 052096 | |
Additional info |
This guitar was made by Rudy Pensa for Mark in
1996. Nowadays the guitar is called Pensa MK2. Perhaps this guitar was a basis for the Pensa
MK2 Signature model announced in 2002. The guitars was used in the Chet Atkins Musician Days in Nashville in 1998, Sailing to Philadelphia tour 2001, Mark Knopfler & Friends concerts 2002, All the roadrunning tour 2006, Kill to get crimson tour 2008, Get lucky tour 2010, Privateering tour 2013 and Tracker tour 2015. The Japanese magazine The guitar featured a great article in 2001 listing all of Mark Knopfler's guitars which he used on the Sailing to Philadelphia tour 2001. The article featured seperate photos of each of these guitars. Click here for a photo of this Pensa MK2. |
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Brand | Pensa |
Type | MK80 | |
Year | 2004 | |
Serial number | 0001 | |
Additional info |
In January 2004, Mark Knopfler got a new Pensa
Custom guitar, a Daphne Blue MK80 presented to him by his good friend Rudy
Pensa. The model's name, MK80, refers to the fact this model of guitar is
based on Mark Knopfler's early Schecter he used in the eighties. The guitar's order number was #0188 but it has also been especially
numbered #0001 and will be the only MK80 with a triple zero serial number.
All other MK80s will have their order number as serial number. It has been
engraved with "To Mark with love, R. Pensa."
Click here for a picture which shows the front and back of a similar guitar. |
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Brand | Pensa |
Type | MK2 Plus | |
Year | 2005 | |
Serial number | 0260 | |
Additional info |
The model is based on the
MK2
Signature
model. On 10th June 2005, the guitar was
presented to Mark in Milan
by Rudy Pensa.
The guitar was used during the Shangri-La tour in 2005 on Telegraph road and it was also used on the All the roadrunning tour 2006, but it looks like that Mark prefers to use his oldest 1996 Pensa MK2 as he took that one out on the road in 2008, 2010, 2013 and 2015. |
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Brand | Pensa |
Type | MK D | |
Year | 14 December 2011 | |
Serial number | Unknown | |
Additional info |
Information taken from Rudy Pensa's
site:
Pensa MK D model in an awesome Frost
Blue top and Pelham Blue back and sides, with natural masked
binding. The maple neck features a East Indian Rosewood fingerboard
and a matching Frost Blue headstock face. The playability is incredible and the
attention to detail, second to none. Click here for two more pictures from Rudy's site. As you can see, it's a similar guitar, only the pickups from Mark's guitar are different. Mark's Pensa MK D features two P90 pickups. The guitar was used for the promo picture session for the Privateering album and Mark used it during the US & Canadian 2012 tour and the Privateering tour 2013 for Kingdom of gold. On the Tracker tour, the guitar was used to play Kingdom of gold and Laughs and jokes and drinks and smokes. On the Down the road wherever tour, Mark used this guitar on the song My bacon roll. According to a seller on Ebay, it was made in a limited edition of just 30 guitars. Click here and here for other great pictures of Mark and this Pensa. |
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Brand | Pensa |
Type | MK D | |
Year | Unknown | |
Serial number | Unknown | |
Additional info |
Guy Fletcher posted a photo in his
Tracker Tour Diary from Cologne, 21st June 2015. On that
picture, you can see a second blue guitar and in July 2015, Guy
confirmed on his forum that it is indeed a new blue Pensa. Click
here
to see the original picture.
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Brand | Pensa |
Type | MK90 | |
Year | Most likely 2017 | |
Serial number | Unknown | |
Additional info |
I found this picture on Facebook. Pensa
Custom Guitars
posted about this
guitar aswell on 29th April 2017 on Instagram, so most likely the
guitar is from 2017. MK News also posted a
picture of Mark's
new guitar. And here is another
picture of Rudy
Pensa, Mark Knopfler and a person who is unknown to me, holding the
same guitars.
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Brand | Pensa |
Type | Tele Custom 40th anniversary limited edition - T 0832 | |
Year | Most likely 2019 | |
Serial number | Unknown | |
Additional info |
Mark received this guitar from Rudy
Pensa in New York (most likely on 20th or 21st August 2019). The
picture on the left was taken during Piper to the end in
Boston, 23rd August 2019. Click
here for another picture
(taken by Guy Fletcher). Mark used the guitar also for
My bacon roll and the outro solo of Romeo and Juliet.
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