Guitars still owned by Mark

[3Strats]

Mark definitely gave signature Strats as gifts. I'm pretty sure a few of the band have them.

[quizzaciously]

Mark definitely gave signature Strats as gifts. I'm pretty sure a few of the band have them.

He even gave his Signature Strat to some of his family members

What a guitar hero.

[RockinCat]

Does anyone know if MK kept the brown Strat that he used to play TR at the Dijon, France gig on 30 June 2013?  The video is on You Tube.  My favorite DS song of all time. 

[quizzaciously]

Does anyone know if MK kept the brown Strat that he used to play TR at the Dijon, France gig on 30 June 2013?  The video is on You Tube.  My favorite DS song of all time.

Interesting question. My first thought was that it looked like a Pensa that Mark retrieved from the auction, Lot #32, however, it's a completely different Pensa. So Mark kept it!

[3Strats]

There's obviously still a place for the single coil pickup Pensas. He used this one for Telegraph Road on the 2013 & 2015 tours and It wasn't in the sale.
https://dtvaviationimages.co.uk/mark-knopfler-tour-photos/privateering-18513/mk_0104/
https://dtvaviationimages.co.uk/mark-knopfler-tour-photos/mark-knopfler-20515-tracker-tour/mk_0082lq/

[Pottel]

Pensa 1993
Pensa MK2 1996
Pensa Super MK1 2005?
Telecaster styled Pensa (used on Tracker Tour)
Black Pensa Suhr
Blue Pensa
White Stratocaster ( STP)
National
Schecter Stratocaster (Red)

can you check with the first post, which ones are already included? i miss the expertise to compare.

[iorch82]

There's obviously still a place for the single coil pickup Pensas. He used this one for Telegraph Road on the 2013 & 2015 tours and It wasn't in the sale.
https://dtvaviationimages.co.uk/mark-knopfler-tour-photos/privateering-18513/mk_0104/
https://dtvaviationimages.co.uk/mark-knopfler-tour-photos/mark-knopfler-20515-tracker-tour/mk_0082lq/

He actually has been using that one since GH tour, on which at a certain point he received the MK2 to be used for SoS and TR instead of the MK1.

[3Strats]

I know he was using the redwood topped one on the Golden Heart tour ( the one he withdrew from the auction) as I saw it.  He played Sultans on the MK1 and Golden Heart on the Redwood Custom at Newcastle City Hall.
He didn't play the one in the photos above when I saw him on that tour, or on the Shangri-La tour in 2005.  The one withdrawn from the auction has a Fender style hardtail bridge, and the one in my photos has a Gibson style Bridge & stop bar tailpiece.  The first time I saw it on tour was in 2008 and I think he used it for Telegraph Road up to 2015.
This is it in 2008:
  https://dtvaviationimages.co.uk/mark-knopfler-tour-photos/kill-to-get-crimson-21510/mk_0068w/

[iorch82]

I know he was using the redwood topped one on the Golden Heart tour ( the one he withdrew from the auction) as I saw it.  He played Sultans on the MK1 and Golden Heart on the Redwood Custom at Newcastle City Hall.
He didn't play the one in the photos above when I saw him on that tour, or on the Shangri-La tour in 2005.  The one withdrawn from the auction has a Fender style hardtail bridge, and the one in my photos has a Gibson style Bridge & stop bar tailpiece.  The first time I saw it on tour was in 2008 and I think he used it for Telegraph Road up to 2015.
This is it in 2008:
  https://dtvaviationimages.co.uk/mark-knopfler-tour-photos/kill-to-get-crimson-21510/mk_0068w/

He used it from 1996 onwards, just look at this SoS:

[dustyvalentino]

I know he was using the redwood topped one on the Golden Heart tour ( the one he withdrew from the auction) as I saw it.  He played Sultans on the MK1 and Golden Heart on the Redwood Custom at Newcastle City Hall.
He didn't play the one in the photos above when I saw him on that tour, or on the Shangri-La tour in 2005.  The one withdrawn from the auction has a Fender style hardtail bridge, and the one in my photos has a Gibson style Bridge & stop bar tailpiece.  The first time I saw it on tour was in 2008 and I think he used it for Telegraph Road up to 2015.
This is it in 2008:
  https://dtvaviationimages.co.uk/mark-knopfler-tour-photos/kill-to-get-crimson-21510/mk_0068w/

He used it from 1996 onwards, just look at this SoS:

I was just saying to a friend this morning after listening to Sultans from OTN on the live box, the MK1 is terrible for that song IMO. Far too muddy.

[Matchstickman]

For Sultans, he overcomplicated things for decades; the Fender was always the best choice IMO.

[dustyvalentino]

For Sultans, he overcomplicated things for decades; the Fender was always the best choice IMO.

Dunno, Alchemy is probably the peak for me.

[Matchstickman]

Most famous (Alchemy), but the sound is a bit too sharp or thin for my taste. I liked the back-to-basics Sultans after 2001, especially in 2005.

[3Strats]

I know he was using the redwood topped one on the Golden Heart tour ( the one he withdrew from the auction) as I saw it.  He played Sultans on the MK1 and Golden Heart on the Redwood Custom at Newcastle City Hall.
He didn't play the one in the photos above when I saw him on that tour, or on the Shangri-La tour in 2005.  The one withdrawn from the auction has a Fender style hardtail bridge, and the one in my photos has a Gibson style Bridge & stop bar tailpiece.  The first time I saw it on tour was in 2008 and I think he used it for Telegraph Road up to 2015.
This is it in 2008:
  https://dtvaviationimages.co.uk/mark-knopfler-tour-photos/kill-to-get-crimson-21510/mk_0068w/

He used it from 1996 onwards, just look at this SoS:

Yep, that's it.   That's two months after I saw him in Newcastle and he had dropped the Pensa MK1 in favour of a Les Paul as well. I wonder if the Pensas he kept have fatter necks, or if it's just the single coil pickups he prefers in them.

[Rolleyway Man]

I hadn’t realised until very recently that Mark actually replaced the MK1 with the MK2 as early as during the Golden Heart tour. This is a bit nerdy I admit but I’m now trying to figure out which Pensa Mark was playing on Romeo, Sultans and Telegraph at the June 10th Copenhagen gig - my personal favourite recording from that tour. I had always assumed that I was hearing the MK1. From checking some YouTube videos it would seem that he was still using the MK1 at the start of June in Rotterdam but by the Stockholm gig on 12th June he had changed to the MK2. So that would mean that Copenhagen would be either one of the last known appearances of the MK1 or one of the first appearances of the MK2.

I really must know these important things!