Hot or Not? Pensa

[wok]

Reb Beach

and In Before MPFB cop0

 

[Ignored Member]

It might be a fantastic guitar but it just screams 1986.

 

[Chad]

No

 

[CBHScott]

Better than the Ibanez that bore his name.

 

[baimun]

The EMGs would have to go.... then I'd hit it.

 

[Gorgon90]

Seen Reb Beach playing one of these with Whitesnake twice now. Stunning looks and sound, and I have no doubt it'll play that way too.

 

[Coralkong]

I like the guitar, especially the neck.

Don't like the gold hardware or the pickups.

 

[GreatDane]

I fucking love it.

 

[Mark Wein]

Probably a great guitar but not my thing wiith the floyd, EMGs and gold hardware.

 

[Guitar Heel]

Probably a great guitar but not my thing wiith the floyd, EMGs and gold hardware.

this. love it otherwise though, and could even deal with the gold hardware.

 

[Muppet]

Would. Like it owed me money.

 

[VoidTerraFirma]

It shouldn't work for me but it does. Oh yes, it really does. And Reb Beach is a fucking monster.

 

[Jbird]

Mark Knopfler played something similar back in the '80s, didn't he? Minus the EMG's and Floyd, of course.

 

[wok]

Mark Knopfler played something similar back in the '80s, didn't he? Minus the EMG's and Floyd, of course.

He did. Including Floyd and white EMGs

 

[mystixboi1]

Hell yes!!!

 

[jelloman]

Fuck Yeah!<chipperson>

 

[Scott_Abene]

It might be a fantastic guitar but it just screams 1986.

or 1976
or 1996
or 2006
or 2016

It is a pretty piece no matter what the year

 

[Stratguy]

I'd give it a whirl. I might not own it, but I'd sure want to get a chance to play it. What's with storing the hex wrenches on the back of the headstock, though. I'm sure that I could lose them just as easily there, as I could by keeping them in the guitar case.

 

[Ignored Member]

I'd give it a whirl. I might not own it, but I'd sure want to get a chance to play it. What's with storing the hex wrenches on the back of the headstock, though. I'm sure that I could lose them just as easily there, as I could by keeping them in the guitar case.

Adds mass to the headstock and improves the toanz

 

[Dogsinplastic]

Oddly, my favorite stuff from Rudy's were the Schecters they put together for Knopfler and other folks before the Pensa-Suhr line was introduced/launched. The Pensas and Tom Anderson guitars of the latter '80s were rather similar...dinky strat-shaped bodies, H-S-S, Floyds, basic superstrats. High-end, great playing and sounding guitars, but really just super strats.

For Reb, I'd bet it was a significant improvement over the Kramers he had been playing though. The only thing I'd really like to change would be the Floyd. Regular strat vibrato with locking tuners and I'm totally on board. But not if I have to pay for it.

I forgot to throw Sadowsky in there as well. By all accounts stellar instruments from all three, but just high-end tools. Obviously there's nothing inherently wrong with high-end instruments. They were all just very homogeneous in their refined manner.