PENSA CUSTOM GUITARS MK-80 - CANDY APPLE RED CUSTOM SPEC
Listers Guitars is thrilled and honoured to be representing Pensa Custom Guitars in the UK. This guitar has been custom built to Listers Guitars specs and is simply jaw dropping. The build quality, playability and versatility is simply unrivalled. A truly wonderful and special guitar.
The MK-80 model is a Strat style guitar with a modern update, based on the guitar Rudy Pensa supplied Mark Knopfler in 1980 prior to Dire Straits going into the studio to record Making Movies. The MK-80 comes with a Chambered Mahogany body for added weight relief. The electronics on the MK-80 come with the option of having tapped Gemini Pickups with 3x3 way toggle switches for each individual pickup, allowing the player to activate any or all pickups, to switch between a thicker output and regular output, expanding tonal possibilities and pickup options. . The MK-80 comes with a Fender style scale length and a Vintage style 6 screw tremolo bridge.
BODY
- Body Wood: Chambered Mahogany
- Pickups: Gemini custom F500T tribute pickups (tapped)
- Controls: Volume, Tone
- Switches: 3 × 3 way (tapped) mini toggle switch as pickup selector
- Bridge: Gotoh GE101TS Vintage Style Tremelo
- Knobs: Dome
- Hardware: Chrome
NECK
- Scale: 25.5"
- Neck Wood: Hard Maple with "C" shape grip
- Fingerboard: Birdseye Maple
- Fingerboard Radius: 12"
- Inlays: No face markers, Luminlay side markers
- Nut: Bone, 1⅝" wide
- Tuners: Sperzel Trim-Lok
- Frets: 22 Dunlop 6105
FINISH
- Nitrocellulose Lacquer
- Colour: Candy Apple Red body, Natural neck