Comments on: Mark Knopfler’s stolen sunburst Schecter Strat of Tunnel of Love

By: My Sunburst Schecter Strat Copy | Mark Knopfler Guitar / More Knowledge about the guitar

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:41:54 +0000

[...] on from Ingo’s excellent article on the stolen sunburst schecter used on Tunnel Of Love. I (Dermot O’Reilly also known as strat61 on some forums) have been [...]

By: Jean-François

Jean-François — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:35:13 +0000

Jack Sonni used the replacement one for Going home in 85-86 as we can see on the Wembley videos (with Hank Marvin, or with Pete Townshend), and on Sydney too I think (not sure).

By: dave

dave — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 20:53:06 +0000

Fantastic!! Thanks. I didn’t realise Knopfler had one of these. I have an old guitar book from 1982: ‘The complete guitar guide’ (ISBN 0 907080 391) which has a feature on a Chandler guitar/Schecter “Strat”, im sure it is the same as Knopfler’s.

I am attempting to recreate this guitar – hence the reason for trying to find the wiring diagram. Although im having difficulty trying to find a brass scratchplate, i think i am going to have to make it myself. Thanks again and have a nice xmas and new year

By: Ingo

Ingo — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 19:53:21 +0000

Here, on this website!
http://www.mk-guitar.com/blog/2008/10/20/pickguard-wiring-of-vintage-schecter-strat/

By: dave

dave — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 14:16:15 +0000

Does anyone know where i can get a wiring diagram for the schect strat? With the three switches instead of standard slider. Thanks

By: Ingo

Ingo — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 20:24:28 +0000

Yeah, pics are welcome, if you don’t mind I can post them here.

By: Bobby

Bobby — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 01:07:37 +0000

Thanks for the article, I’ve been looking for more info on the sunburst schecter for yonks.
I had a guitar made by John Suhr to get as close to the spirit of this guitar as possible – well, actually a hybrid of this one, and his replacement one. Sadly they wouldn’t do the steel pickguard…
But it does have the birdseye maple neck (dotless), gold hardwear, side jack, and 3 toggle swithches. Absolutely beautiful. I’ll send some picks to you if you like! Sadly I can’t play it within an order of magnitude as the the man himself. I bought it just for tunnel of love, which I have spent most of my adolescent life learning!
Cheers dude!
Bobby

By: Dermot O'Reilly

Dermot O'Reilly — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:38:50 +0000

They were polished brass, the polish naturally gets tarnished with sweating fingers on it, in the 1980 Dortmund DVD you can see it’s very shiny compared to later concerts 83-85 etc. I have the same assembly plus a NOS vintage schecter brass bridge in an Eric Johnson sunburst strat and it’s nice I love the 500Ts, they seem better behaved than most strat pickups, more rounded, but use the them tapped mostly and only untapped when at higher volumes or when distortion is used for blues.

BTW – brilliant picture of schecter sunburst #1 Ingo, if you any more please stick em up thanks!

By: Morten

Morten — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 13:18:48 +0000

Ok, I’m sure you are right. I’ve always thought that the stolen one had a white pickguard, but that’s probably because it was new and shiny, so it looked white on the few photos available. Thanks again, Ingo!

By: Ingo

Ingo — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 07:47:28 +0000

I don’t know about any differences, both had a golden metal pickguard, and should be loaded with the same electronics. The metal quickly corrodes, you have to polish it a lot to keep it shiny I guess, so at least on later pictures of the replacement Strat it looks different, rather dull.