The Official Fender Mark Knopfler Stratocaster Owners' Club Thread

[dustyvalentino]

Got rid of it years ago. Kept the guitars though.

[Waterline Man]

Got rid of it years ago. Kept the guitars though.

Oh if that sofa could talk

[Fletch]

I'm longing to add a Fiesta Red maple neck Strat to my armoury. A Mexican will suffice though, as I have a set of Texas special pickups lying around doing nothing!

That Gibson acoustic sure looks sweet, does it play well? I tried a jumbo Gibson in Sydney a few months back, and it was - well, whilst not terrible, I didn't think it was worth the $5000 au they were asking.

[Jackal]

Gibson's are in general way overpriced in terms of finish, attention to details and I would say sound. Would buy a Martin instead any day.

[Dutchessy]

Got rid of it years ago. Kept the guitars though.

Amazing collection! Great

[dustyvalentino]

Gibson's are in general way overpriced in terms of finish, attention to details and I would say sound. Would buy a Martin instead any day.

Martins are great guitars for sure, but I wouldn't trade my J45 for anything. Probably the most beautiful sounding guitar I have ever played. You can hear it on this track:

http://www.reverbnation.com/dustyvalentino#!/artist/song_details/4000950

Amazing collection! Great

Thank you.

Here's my complete collection, EXCEPT the telecaster I
assembled a few months ago.


By dustyvalentino at 2009-08-14

[superval99]

Amazing!        You'll soon have as many as MK!       

[Jackal]

You should have kept the other sofa, mate.

[dustyvalentino]

Second pic is actually at my mum's house - most of my guitars are stashed there as I don't have room for them at my house.

[superval99]

I know the feeling!  Our house is full of our son's telescopes, etc!   

[Jackal]

Martins are great guitars for sure, but I wouldn't trade my J45 for anything. Probably the most beautiful sounding guitar I have ever played.

Speaking of J-45s, the guy who plays a really great-sounding J-45 and who has an amazing touch and tone is Russ Barenberg (well-known acoustic guitarist in Nashville and house guitarist in the Transatlantic Session series, a true feeling-over-flash guy). Here are couple of beautiful clips:

 

 

 

[superval99]

Very nice!   I love watching Transatlantic Sessions and Celtic Connections and it was also lovely to see our "friends" John, Mike, Tim and Phil on some of the clips too! 

[Jackal]

Transatlantic Sessions are just amazing. Fantastic musicianship and production quality. Have to get the DVDs.

[sak4]

Transatlantic Sessions has a wonderful buzz - they did a brief tour after Celtic Connections in Glasgow, I think they did Dublin, we went to see them in Birmingham - just fantastic.   About 16 musicians in all, playing together, singly - whatever.    John McCusker there and Mike McGoldrick plus Phil Cunningham, Aly Bain and Paul Brady to name a few.   They went on down to the Southbank in London.

We did bump into Aly Bain the next day and had a word, he said they did this last year and planned to do so next year.   If you can make a journey to see them its well worth while.   Set me up until MK.

Sally

[Just 2 fingers (and a thumb)]

Hi, I've been looking for a MK Strat for some time. I've been holding out to find an early production (Hot Rod Red) model with a low serial no. I thought they were all HR Red until I saw a few being done in Dakota Red..

I started looking into serial nos. Today on ebay, there are 2 for sale, both with serial nos that don't follow the SE00XXXX pattern but have 5XXXX instead. Should I assume these are in effect fakes? It' easy to find MK necks on ebay, so I guess it'd be relatively easy to build one with an HR Red body and a random neck plate, or did some really have these serial nos?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Fender-Stratocaster-USA-Mark-Knopfler-signature-/300569934940?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item45fb5d3c5c#ht_762wt_1047

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/AWESOME-FENDER-MARK-KNOPFLER-STRATOCASER-MADE-USA-/230639720607?pt=Guitar&hash=item35b332d89f#ht_500wt_830

I approached one of the sellers, and he got REALLY shirty when I asked about the unusual serial no! So I assumed it was not genuine.

And if anybody here wants to sell their early MK Strat, do mail me as I'd be interested for sure.

Cheers

Dave