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See footnote to lot 92. Knopfler’s guitar tech Glenn Saggers recalls that the Signature Stratocasters would all arrive with different weights and Mark would pick the guitars he liked for his own use accordingly, as the weight of a guitar is very important to him. As Knopfler noted to Guitarist magazine in 2004, the weight of swamp ash can vary considerably. Mark would pick the guitars he liked for his own use based on their weight and kept at least two Signature Strats in his study for songwriting. To avoid having to retune the guitars, he would have one tuned to E and one to C.