Nice colour though. And a beautiful guitar!
LE
I love purple and always thought of that as the forgotten Pensa. In the guitar Stories documentary they discussed with Rudy going to the café and jotting down notes on a napkin before announcing the flame maple MK1 as the very first Pensa-Suhr, however he used this on tour with EC at least whole year before that. He certainly had it in January '87 for the RAH shows, whereas the MK1 debuted at the Prince's Trust Gala on 6th June '88.
My fauvorite guitar. I own a replica of the flamed mk1. I asked rudy to make it 12 years ago. He told me it would take half a year and 9k dollars to be finished.
I purchased every detailed part mk1 takes and found a local luthier to make it. It is not a Pensa-suhr but it looks alike.
Same pick-ups , body, fret, bridge, pegs and whatever it took.
