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Tag: MK-1

August 29, 2017March 17, 2018Guitars

The Schaller Floyd Rose tremolo on the Pensa Suhr MK-1

Recently I did a service job on a Suhr MK1. It is the same guitar in fact that I played on a youtube video and that was featured in a blog post six years ago. It belongs to a collector of MK-related guitars who lives near my place, and who kindly also lent me some of the more expensive guitars for my youtube videos in the past. With this blog […]

July 26, 2011July 30, 2011Guitars, Mark Knopfler gear, MK guitar style and licks

Suhr Custom MK-1 and Pensa Custom MK-1

This time I am checking two great guitars, a Suhr MK-1 and a Pensa MK-1. The Suhr is the one that you could already see in this video. Both belong to the same person, a collector from Germany. Some background on the first MK1 The Pensa-Suhr MK1 was built in 1988 by luthier John Suhr  at Rudy Pensa’s guitar shop in Manhattan. Suhr worked there before he built amps with […]

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