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

[JF]

I hope I could afford a Les Paul

I'm not really into signatures models.

Ahem.

ah ah ah. yes good one 

yes indeed, the Les Paul is the first "signature" guitar model in guitar history

and a Les Paul signature model (Slash for example) is a signature signature guitar 

[dustyvalentino]

I have a Les Paul signed by Les Paul so I guess that's also a signature signature

[JF]

Les Paul and Paul, with Paul's Les Paul 

[dustyvalentino]

Dusty and Les Paul with Dusty's Les Paul.

Doesn't really work as well

Picture 129 by Dusty Valentino, on Flickr

[superval99]

Dusty and Les Paul with Dusty's Les Paul.

Doesn't really work as well

Picture 129 by Dusty Valentino, on Flickr

Great picture! 

[JF]

Dusty and Les Paul with Dusty's Les Paul.

Doesn't really work as well

Picture 129 by Dusty Valentino, on Flickr

 

[dustyvalentino]

Dusty and Les Paul with Dusty's Les Paul.

Doesn't really work as well

Picture 129 by Dusty Valentino, on Flickr

Great picture! 

I'm on the left by the way.

[Vesper]

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cr_Vih_srPB/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Another expensive MK 'signature' guitar incoming...

[quizzaciously]

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cr_Vih_srPB/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Another expensive MK 'signature' guitar incoming...

https://boswellguitars.com/mark-knopfler-model

It's only $9.250. To be honest, I thought the price would be higher for a hand built guitar, but I can't even imagine the price for this on the second hand market.

[hunter]

Dusty and Les Paul with Dusty's Les Paul.

Doesn't really work as well

Picture 129 by Dusty Valentino, on Flickr

Great picture! 

I'm on the left by the way.

Thanks for clarifying 

[dustyvalentino]

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cr_Vih_srPB/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Another expensive MK 'signature' guitar incoming...

https://boswellguitars.com/mark-knopfler-model

It's only $9.250. To be honest, I thought the price would be higher for a hand built guitar, but I can't even imagine the price for this on the second hand market.

It's a shame that MK doesn't seem interested in being associated with an affordable guitar, unless it's a toy.

The MK strat was an expensive guitar but it was relatively affordable for some people, not so much these days.

[quizzaciously]

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cr_Vih_srPB/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Another expensive MK 'signature' guitar incoming...

https://boswellguitars.com/mark-knopfler-model

It's only $9.250. To be honest, I thought the price would be higher for a hand built guitar, but I can't even imagine the price for this on the second hand market.

It's a shame that MK doesn't seem interested in being associated with an affordable guitar, unless it's a toy.

The MK strat was an expensive guitar but it was relatively affordable for some people, not so much these days.

Yes, that's a true shame. Especially since cheap guitars aren't that bad these days. I love my $100 Squier to death, and it's the best guitar I ever played. Once you add just a little bit to it, put decent tuners, do a basic guitar setup, and add a Fender gig bag for short-scale guitars, it's an amazing guitar. Mine turned out pricing about $300 overall and I can't put it down.

I think Mark just isn't interested in doing an affordable signature guitar, and that's it. Gibson Custom Shop and renowned luthiers can find time to approach him, and he can find time to answer, but I don't think he has time to bother with representatives from other manufacturers. Doing a signature guitar is a lot of effort, choosing the wood, designing, making compromises, especially price-wise, and I can't see MK doing all that.

[dustyvalentino]

When the MK strat came out he said he wanted to do a Made in Mexico version but obviously that never happened.

[quizzaciously]

When the MK strat came out he said he wanted to do a Made in Mexico version but obviously that never happened.

Because compromises! All of Mark's signature guitars have no compromises. It has to be a proper, professional-grade, USA-made Strat, just like the ones Mark plays himself. Once it's Mexican-made, it's not a real thing because it's not what he's playing. And when you try to upgrade it with better woods and hardware, suddenly it's priced like a USA-made guitar anyway. So I think it's the problem of "The perfect is the enemy of the good". It's like saying you're a perfectionist without saying you're a perfectionist.

[dustyvalentino]

When the MK strat came out he said he wanted to do a Made in Mexico version but obviously that never happened.

Because compromises! All of Mark's signature guitars have no compromises. It has to be a proper, professional-grade, USA-made Strat, just like the ones Mark plays himself. Once it's Mexican-made, it's not a real thing because it's not what he's playing. And when you try to upgrade it with better woods and hardware, suddenly it's priced like a USA-made guitar anyway. So I think it's the problem of "The perfect is the enemy of the good". It's like saying you're a perfectionist without saying you're a perfectionist.

I would need to dig out old magazines to see what he said, but my memory (from 20 years ago, admittedly) was that his comments were made after he had played Mexican strats at the 2002 shows and he was impressed by their quality. He also said he would like to see different colour versions of the MK strat.