Fender Telecaster
1954 Fender Telecaster, Butterscotch Blond
It's early 1954 Telecaster (serial number 4545) features Maple one piece neck, Ash body with Butterscotch Blond finish, 2 chrome knobs, 3 position toggle switch, 3 paired adjustable bridge saddles. This guitar is one of the Mark's favorite guitars.
Mark used this guitar in The Notting Hillbillies. Also guitar was used on A Night In Summer Long Ago (1996), Boom Like That (2004), Border Reiver and So Far From The Clyde (2009)
1966 Fender Telecaster, Sunburst
Mark bought this custom guitar (serial number 178112) in 1977 or 1978. The guitar with replacement Schecter bridge.*
Previously the guitar was used by David Knopfler.** Later Mark used it on The Notting Hillbillies album and on That's All Right, Mama and Setting Me Up (live).
* In The Wild East End - Guitarist Magazine, 1990 ** Mark Knopfler's Fender Telecasters with Dire Straits - Ingo Raven
MK studio diary 2011 by Guy Fletcher
Mark and Guy are back in the studio working on a new record
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