Fender 'Mark Knopfler' Signature Series Stratocaster (0117800-815) - Owners list

[dustyvalentino]

It's not really about working harder, it's about having enough disposable income to justify spending thousands of pounds on a guitar, which isn't really realistic for most people. Kids, mortgage, pension etc etc etc, all much more sensible things to spend lots of money on than a guitar when you can buy a perfectly good one for a couple of hundred pounds.

[ds1984]

This is symbolic.

We can live without signature models and as said Dusty "you can buy a perfectly good one for a couple of hundred pounds."

So this signature thing matters us because it questions our values.

Mark Knopfler's name is now a brand - yet started by being a popular brand and has turned into a more exclusive one - only for rich people.

[dustyvalentino]

The one thing we can be pleased about is that he kept concert tickets affordable throughout his career. I wonder if he did tour again if he would go for the whole dynamic pricing thing like Springsteen. Selling $10,000 guitars, £250 toy guitars and god knows whatever price gin suggests he would...

[ds1984]

Mark Knopfler is not as popular as Bruce  Springsteen so I wonder if dynamic pricing would be that great for  him ?

And for years, we were able to get the best seat in the house without paying for a silly fan club subscription.

[dustyvalentino]

Yeah, even with less popular artists tickets seem to have gone through the roof these days.

[JF]

Bruce Springsteen's tickets are not that expensive imho

if you count the price per hour...

with the Boss you have a 3 hours concert.... 

[Klaus74]

Yes, that is right. Some Springsteen-shows last more than 3hours, 3,5 hours or sometimes 4 hours had been played in the past by The Boss.
This tour, i will visit him in Duesseldorf and in Hockenheim on the Motordrome Racing-track. In Germany are 4 shows, Duesseldorf, Hamburg, Munich and Hockenheim.
You can watch some shows on the tube. Now, he is 73 years old, äh young, and he reaches the 3 hour-mark easily. Today. 

[jbaent]

I just attended t'he Guns n Roses gig in Madrid that lasted 3 hours and 30 minutes non stop.

It wasn't long at all for me, great energy.

[quizzaciously]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/134604326887?hash=item1f570b07e7:g:7CQAAOSwITJkgcws&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAA4FiOf0yNio2R%2FCz0VNsDkXKqMMLjhaflvQoGgM6cbB2m94mmbYNW0avw7Dl1kTdwhAyavwf3hdF5FbQDNvZfokSmf88EaSwzSTv06lMkQovh5gluJdzsnp4r8oHIH0fT8DcJma0pBaBiR72Bj86uNBTjUPcGG9uSbHcpgJkswakopCqo3GYqOB8oPPglqLu5MsvdNT4ZjL0qpdM8GTLSVl3jMhhhk4pULykM%2BavKOrR1Yq18xX6eMM4JqiyqLI%2Bb0KulEqM46KH7aMVUwRlv1bax9owkYi9YTfhqWt7dSRqO%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR8D-9JSZYg

[border_reiver]

Finally something on-topic here!

Looked like a fine example. Price on par with current market value. Strange marks on the back of the neck though.

[border_reiver]

https://www.blocket.se/annons/stockholm/fender_stratocaster_mark_knopfler_signature_model/110085928

For sale in Sweden. Few dings, looks like s replacement pickguard and no case candy.

35000 SEK = ~2940 Euro = ~2510 GBP

[dustyvalentino]

Hmm, looks odd with that pickguard. The wood on the headstock looks too light as well but I guess that's just lighting.

[3Strats]

Hmm, looks odd with that pickguard. The wood on the headstock looks too light as well but I guess that's just lighting.

The  headstock & case lining both seem to lack some depth or colour saturation. That'll just be the photos.
The pickguard has gone the same nasty "milky coffee" colour as mine - It's been left out of it's case in bright daylight for too long. 

[JF]

I find sad to be forced to keep your guitars in their case juste to keep their color
I like to "expose" my guitars in my living room
the white pickguard on the red strat is from 1991, a Hondo copy, the pic is tken just now and the guitar has been quite a lot exposed to dailylight since 30 years, and the colour didn't change that much

why do they use such a "delicate" plastic on a signature model that you can't use it "normally" ?

[3Strats]

Sorry for the delay in spotting this reply & responding.

It must just be down to the type of plastics they use particularly in the "mint green"  - I have a late 80's Japanese Fender Strat with a non-laminated pick guard and after all these years being out on a rack, the colour has just aged slightly (the pick up covers & knobs have gone cream in the same period.

Here are shots of both guitars taken some years ago - the MK strat pick guard is darker now

https://www.flickr.com/photos/dtvaviationimages/6202646479/in/album-72157627669196085/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/dtvaviationimages/16680297931/in/album-72157627669196085/