It would not surprise me if Rudy and Suhr decide to release a limited Pensa-Suhr run taking advantage of all of this temporary MK turmoil
However, if this happens, and they make it really identical to Marks MK1 ; sign me up!
I visited Christie's and the guitar looks absolutely amazing. I've seen copies but the finish/wood on the original is absolutely stellar!
Seeing the guitar up close did move me a bit, I grew up with On The Night on VHS tape and Mark was really, really the world's greatest guitarist there and then.
I still get goosebumps from that BIA version; the only song that will do that to me on earth!
If they do a Pensa Suhr replica, I hope they do it better than the original!
I was attending the exhibition with a luthier that was shocked to see bad details in the Pensa Suhr, like the fact that the neck didn't fit properly in the body, as there was a very small gap at both sides of the neck that made it moves slowly, and left the first string to the edge of the neck. Also there was a plastic piece at the back of the guitar that was a bit bigger than the back body of it. My friend told me that those details, if he makes a guitar like that for a client, the client would claim about them for sure.
Looks like MK was in a hurry with that guitar, as all we know the napkin story, and that John Surh made the guitar very wuickly to be sent to MK for the Mandela gig, it's also known that he already had the body of the guitar, so he probably took the first neck he found that fit the better, even not as tight as it should, finished the guitar and send it to London. Probably Ron Eve adjusting it the better as possible for the gigs and the OES tour but it's clear he didn't play it for so long and the neck moved a bit and left the first string too much at the edge.
