Parker Guitars Fly Deluxe

The guitar is a 1995 model. It has a fixed bridge (they don`t do fixed bridge in stock models anymore). Check for other features in other reviews.

This is the main reason I am writing this review. I have installed the new PHWP1 and PHWP2 pickups from Dimarzio. These new pickups are stock on post-1999 Parker guitars. The difference is huge. The old pickups are the reason these guitars are less popular then they could be. They sound thin and fizzy and give an unpleasent breakup if the amp is on the edge of breakup. The new pickups are a 100% improvement. I can now push my Rivera BM60 a bit over the edge and control everything from the guitar, while before - forget it. The old pickups sounded totaly harsh and thin if you rolled back the volume. I cant say how the guitar compares to other high end guitars out there, since I have not tried any. But I have to say I have finally stopped purchasing expensive stomp boxes and browsing for used amps on ebay since I installed the new pickups. I am happy with the tone now. With the new pickups the Parker may not be your cup of tea exactly sound-wise, but it is musical and sounds good. With the old pickups the rating is 5 (because of the piezzos, magnetics rate 3) but with the new ones I guess it deserves a fair 9.

Everything is superb exept for the cracks at the neck-body joint. I hear this happens to many Parker guitars. But it doesn`t worry me since the neck is as steady as a rock.

The guitar was built in 1995 and it looks like new. There is virtually no fretwear. Although it looks fragile it is very compact. I believe it will last a long time.

They are slow on e-mails but if you get them on the phone they are friendly and helpfull.

After changing the pickups this guitar is definitelly a keeper. They did cost quite a sum because of the customs, shipping and taxes. But for me they were well worth it, since i believe this is a fantastic guitar - it just lacked the sound. Once you get used to the locking tuners, frets that don`t wear out and detune the guitar, steady tuning and great playability it is hard to play anything else.

This is your basic 24 fret Fly Deluxe with vibrato, two humbuckers, three way switch, piezo pickups, etc. etc. Mine is a 1997 - kind of a teal blue which isn't my favorite color. Since I bought it used, the stereo cable was missing, but it was worth getting another. I love the locking tuners (first guitar I've ever had with locking tuners) - the thing is always in tune. I use the vibrato on the down only setting - never takes the guitar out of tune.

The guitar certainly is versatile, but I agree with others that the sound of the humbuckers is a little harsh. I prefer a mellower tone which the Parker doesn't give. I play a lot of blues and classic rock. I just got rid of a Vox AC-15 in favor of a 1967 Fender Princeton Reverb and the Parker was better suited to the Vox (if you can believe that). Running it through a Voodoo Lab Sparkle Drive set to clean helps out a bit - makes the sound fuller and sweeter. I've found that the middle setting sounds crappy, but the bridge pickup is nice and clear. I do like being able to mix in acoustic sounds and splitting the signal to between an amp and a PA sounds great. I get plenty of sustain out of this thing.

I bought this thing used, but the action was perfect and the condition of the guitar was immaculate. The first couple of times I played, I kept hitting the master volume which was very disruptive, but I got used to where all the knobs and thingamabobs were. I lowered the pickups a bit. The intonation was way off, but this guitar is a breeze to adjust. A couple of small adjustments and everything was perfect. The two best things about this guitar is the weight and the neck. I don't know why so many guitar makers insist on making guitars that top out at nine pounds. I'm not very big and playing all night with a heavy guitar sucks. I just played a wedding with the Parker - six hours of playing and I was ready for more. This thing tops out at a mere 5 pounds. And the neck is like glass - thin as all get out. It's NICE. One comfy guitar. Why be miserable?

In the year I've been playing it, nothing has gone wrong. Even the batteries last a while. I always take a backup, but I've never needed one.

Never needed any repairs, so I've never contacted the company.

I've been playing for 30 years, but I've only gotten serious (and electric) in the last three years. I also have a Japanese tele with Tex Spec pickups, a Japanese strat (that I use exclusively for slide), an Ibanez Artstar, a Martin acoustic electric and a National resonator. It's hard to say which one I like the best because they all have their own sound. If the Parker were lost or stolen, buying another would depend on whether there was anything lightweight on the market that could match the quality of the Parker.

The features have already been more than adequately covered by previous reviewers. What many of them overlook however is the fact that, when the pickup selector is in the middle position, it actually throws the pickups out of phase AND coil-taps both of them. While this is great in that it allows you to get a good single-coil sound a lot like a strat with the mid and neck pickups on, it DOES produce a noticeable loss in signal strength in this position. It's not much of a problem to make up for this by rolling the volume up a bit (you ARE playing with it at about 50%-70%, right? That seems to be the sweet spot for these guitars), it woudl be nice if there were some sort of compensation built into the circuitry of the guitar. Also, it would be nice if each pickup could be switched to single-coil mode independently, rather than only being available as single coils simultaneously. This is not to say that I am not happy with this feature - I love it. It is just that, having heard it, I want to be able to play in single coil mode through the bridge pickup and get more of a strat tone. So, for all of the amazing features, I have to deduct one point. If this guitar had independent coil tapping for each pickup AND gain compensation for the coil tap (adjustable with a mini potentiometer inside, like the one for the piezo pickup) I woudl be very tempted to call it perfect. As it is, one can always just pick up a Nitefly for a more strat-like tone, if it is that big an issue.

See above. It is a great sounding guitar once you learn not to crank it to 10 and leave it there, but I would love to be able to play in single-coil mode through one pickup at a time.

The piezo pickups are stunning as described above. I have gotten a fantastic sound by setting the piezo tone about halfway, the humbuckers' tone all the way down to 0, and mixing them about 70% piezo/30% neck humbucker.

Also noteworthy is the fact that there is a slightly dead note on the 13th fret of the G string. Not a bigg deal - "dead" on this guitar means that you only get 2 or 3 seconds of clean sustain instead of the usual absurd amounts. I had Ken Parker look at it and he said that it is just a minor flaw with the wood, and not much can be done short of hanging weights on the headstock to change the resonant characteristics of the guitar slightly and, hopefully, make the offending harmonic interference move to frequencies BETWEEN the notes of the western scale, so that it would only be a problem when BENDING from that particular fret. I didn't think it was a big enough problem to bother with that. I have never heard of it happening with any other Parker guitar, and since the bad note on my guitar still sounds better than the good notes on most guitars I have played, I don't think it is much of an issue.

ACtion is amazing. I can't imagine being satisfied with any other guitar after having played one of these. There is nothing else like the fretbard and neck on a Parker. I got my guitar from the factory about 6 years ago, and the finish is kind of fragile. According to Ken, they had a lot of trouble getting the environmentally safe finishing materials to behave consistently, and ended up reformulating them a year or so after I bought mine, so it is no longer a problem. Even on mine, the only major cosmetic problem (besides the odd chip, which is my own fault) is that after about three years of playing, a small groove appeared at the seam between the neck and the body. When I first saw it I was afraid that the neck was defective and would be falling off any second, but when I showed it to Ken he assured me that it was because of the unreliable older finishing materials, and thus far that appears to be right - there has been absolutely no trouble with the neck.

One other thing worth noting is that, when in fixed bridge mode, the strings feel nearly one gauge heavier than they actually are. This is supposedly because of the stiffness of the composite shell on the back of the neck, which keeps it from flexing as much as a normal guitar. Anyway, if you like your strings to feel loose, you may have to go down a gauge. Also, the string spacing is a bit wider than many guitars. I like that, but others may not.

Anyway, the feel of the fretboard more than compensates for any other minor cosmetic issues that the guitar may have. In fact, it has ruined me for other guitars.

This thing is bult like a rock, even though it doesn;'t feel like it. Two years ago, at a basement show, I left it leaning against a wall in the corner, in nothing but the standard gig bag that came with it. About halfway through their set, the singer in the band that went on before us jumped off of the drum set and landed face down on top of my guitar. I still cannot believe that it did not snap in half - being propped up by the base of the body and the end of the headstock, and then having a 6'6" drunk man jump on top of it should break ANY guitar. Amazingly, the Parker was not damaged at all, and has played fine ever since.

The only problem I ahve ever had is that recently one end of the first fret seems to have come unglued slightly. It has not moved or raised at all, but every once in a while the high E string will get caught under it, which makes me worry that it will eventually fall off if I do not have it reparied. Since the frets are completely nonstandard, if one were to ever fall off it would probably be a nightmare trying to get it repaired locally. Fortunately the factory is not too far away from me, but that is not the case for most people. Hopefully the new, less expensive line of Parker guitars will encourage more people to try them and Parker will become as popular as it deserves - there is really no reason why these guitars should be any less well known than the Strat or the Les Paul, other than their realative newness.

I have never gone through regular customer support channels, since my family knows Ken Parker, so I have talked to him directly the few times I have needed to. He has always been helpful.

I have been playing guitar for about 12 years now, and have been playing a Parker for nearly six. Nothing else I have ever played comes close, not even a $5000 Paul Reed Smith I tried a couple of years ago. It looked beautiful and sounded great, but compared to a Fly Deluxe it played like a $400 Squier with factory strings. Oddly enough, the only guitar I have played that is comparably playable is the Jerry Jones electric sitar (which is Ironic, since Ken Parker apparently HATES electric sitars). Since getting this guitar, I have never felt a need to buy another high-endsix string, though I still plan to buy a good 12 string someday and occasionally pick up a noname pawnshop guitar if it has an unusual tone. This is the one I play live, practice on, write on, and record 90% of my music on. EVeryone should own one.

most features i'm aware of
locking trem option is nice
stays in tune very well
VERY VERY easy to play

the guitar has many sounds
and they sound very good through acoustic/electric stereo !
very quiet guitar
the fret board is soooo sweet
sooooo easy to play !!! man, effortless !!!!
by far the easiest guitar in the world to play
doesn't have a character sound like the strat
or the FAT les paul sound
but, good enough
i can get a somewhat strat tone with the piezos and distorsion

the best action you could ever want
man, this guitar is sweet
'so easy to play
how can i describe it
when you sit down and play and watch your fingers go up and down the fret board, its like soooooo smooth
just absolute top quality !!!

still running.................
yeah, must be careful with the guitars
if a string breaks do not use the wammy bar
you'll chip the paint behind the bridge
BEWARE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this is instrument that needs extra care
but, how sweet

don't know

did talk to a PARKER rep at guitar center
told him about the paint chipping
i actually didn't know what caused it
but had seen many at guitar stores with chip paint
he thought that when the string breaks and a wammy bar is used, that its possible to chip the paint

had many guitars
i must say for playability, nothing is better than this guitar
the sound on the guitar is pretty good
just lacks character
but, in stereo mode, its a whole new experience
but, i still love strat sounds. to bad they're difficult to play compared to parkers. I don't know about U, but i like easy playen guitars. these days,, with all the effect tools, you can almost any sound u want. dats wut i think

Mine is a '98 Italian Plum with tremolo. I give really high marks for the features. (Yeah, I've owned Gibson LP, USA Strat, high-end Ibanez's, etc.) This is my favorite guitar I've ever owned (with my Carvin DC-400 running a close 2nd). The BEST feature of this guitar is the slick composite fretboard combined with those incredible stainless steel frets. My style requires lots of string bending, and there is NOTHING like bending strings on this baby...the fretboard is so "slippery" (in a good way)...many compare it to a feeling of glass. The vibrato system is incredible; blows away a Wilk or a Floyd (no string cutting, and no locking nuts). But I PROMISE you, the tuning does not drift no matter how aggressive you get with it. I also love the feature that gives you the choice of floating, dive-only, or locked (fixed) bridge. The piezo system in fantastic (as everyone else on here says). I've read other complaints about the magnetic pickups, but mine are great. If anything, maybe the bridge pickup is overly hot, but thanks to a very USEFUL tone pot, you can tame it/darken it to sound great. I think most who hate the pickups are probably the guys who just leave the volume and the tone pots cranked to "10" all the time. The Parker is so hot-rodded, you can't always leave it like this, unless you are solely wanting ear-bleed harmonic squeels (which it does quite nicely). Another tremendously good feature is the total lack of a neck heel. My Carvins are also "heel-less" (being neck-thru), but this is different. The neck and body seem to be "one unit", and this is really great when playing in the upper register. It's so light-weight and thin (which alarmed me the first time I strapped it over my shoulder). It felt almost like a toy guitar. But when I plugged it in, brother....and hit that first "A Chord"...I felt the unbridled POWER of this machine. There are a zillion other "little things" that are so precisely put together on my Parker Fly...they just all contribute to perfection (imho). I have never played a guitar that just felt so technically perfect, and I can't really put my finger on why...I think it's the sum of all those "little things", and when each of them is perfect, you can instantly tell you are playing a guitar that is special. My only only complaint in the features section is what many have complained about...the layout of the controls. I, too find myself recording solos which start to lack "punch", and find that I've bumped the master volume. I think Mr. Parker designed it this way to do volume swells with the pinky (which is very easy and effective on this guitar), but still I wish the Master Vol. was out of the way. I can use a volume pedal for swells. The other "baddie" is the pickup selector switch in the worst possible place....where you can't get to it on the fly, and where it's easy to disrupt your tone & volume pots while playing live. These inconvenient control placements knock 1 point off of the "Features" category (but remember, these are minor aggravations, and the incredibility of this instrument makes these very small issues indeed).

I'm running through a POD for recording, and live I use a Peavey Classic 50 tube head through a 4x10 cab. Primarily, I record with the Parker, and I can get it to sound pretty good. When I first got it, I was used to cranking everything to "10" (tone & vol), as that's pretty much how I play other guitars. I was disappointed in the sound of it...it was very brittle and overly-hot (was great for metal and harmonics, but seemed too antiseptic in sound). Well, I started experimenting with the tone & vol pots, and have found that you can get whatever you want from this guitar. Although I was disappointed in the super-hot pickups at first, I quickly became fond of them. They really have a lot of mojo under the hood, and I'm able to play super artificial harmonics effortlessly (which is lots of fun). Pulling back the volume and toying with the tone pot (which is a very useful and colorful tone pot, by the way) allows me to weaken the pickups so that I can get that woody tone that defines the character of the guitar. But (and the best for last....) the thing that blew me away more than anything about the sound of my Parker Fly is the unbelievable sustain. I'm a sustain nut anyway, but this thing just sings forever and ever. The sustain blows away all of my neck-thru guitars, and I mean it blows them away big time! It seems so weird to play a guitar that is so lightweight, and have is sustain for days. I was always told that sustain was a product of a big heavy body with rock-solid, heavy hardware. ha! This little 3 pound guitar makes those ball 'n chain heavy Les Pauls blush in the sustain department! OK, enough on this...just remember that a Parker Fly is a sensitive and versatile guitar, and it needs to be adjusted tone-wise to get what you want. If you turn everything up to 10 all the time, you will be disappointed...if you utilize the great electronics that Ken Parker has installed, you will be in tone heaven. When I listen back to some of my recordings, it's sheer ear candy (not my playing, but the Parker's vast array of tones). Oh...and the Piezo gets a "10" too! Won't go there...not enough time.

I bought mine used, so can't comment on factory setup. Mine was perfect when I got it...set up for .009's (which is what I use). Whomever had it before me had is set up identical to the way I set up my guitars, so I changed nothing, except raised the strings a tiny tad to facilitate nice clean string bending. The finish was good, tiny pick scratches that all guitars will get if you play 'em. One small ding at the back of the headstock...seems that the guitar is covered with some kind of a "skin". So the ding sort of "breaks" the skin so-to-speak. The paint or 'skin' didn't chip off, but resembles a flake of paint that chipped off and was glued back on. That's not what happened...but that's what it looks like when you ding the exoskeleton of a Parker. No biggie. The rest is great...pretty purple color (Italian Plum)....looks black in my room, but transforms into ethereal purple under the lights! Only complaint about the "fit" is that the horn on the upper bout digs into your chest when you play while sitting down, and that starts to hurt. But put on a strap, stand up, and you are playing an ergonomic wonder! Once again, I must address how precise and wonderful the fretboard and frets are! There truly is no guitar that feels so precise in your hands. I can honestly say that I am able to play certain fast passages on this guitar that I always botch-up when I play them on any other guitar. Hard to describe why....just sooooo precise! This coupled with the unbelievable tremolo system causes me to give this high marks. (I would take off a point for the inconvenient control placement, but I already allowed for this in the first category). I'll give a 10 for this category.

Well, when I first got this guitar, I thought it was a wimpy, wussie thing. Mainly because it's so light, and thin...frail-looking. But I was wrong...it's ROCK SOLID. The technology that Ken Parker utilizes makes this possible. I think that the exoskeleton "skin" will look unsightly if you are careless and bang it up. But I do not think that this guitar will fail me as far as reliability. The hardware is great stuff (Sperzel tuners, and that amazing piezo/vibrato bridge). The tremolo arm is octagonal, not round, which makes it fit like an allen-wrench into the bridge orifice. Very cool...and very Strong too! I see no problems in this department except the battery going out, and having to get a screwdriver to change it. No big deal! Everything else seems rock-solid!

N/A...bought it used. Never contacted the company.

I've been playing guitar for about 25 years, and have owned many high-end guitars. Most of my recordings are in the vain of Joe Satriani's style...instrumental rock guitar. I run through a Line6 POD, and Alesis Quadraverb, and an Alesis 3630 Compressor. I usually record "direct to disk" (seldom mic my amp). I've had this Parker for about 6 months now, and it is the first guitar I reach for every time I play/practice. If it were stolen, I would simply HAVE to have another one. I'm thinking of getting a Parker Fly Classic to compliment this one. The things I love about it are the incredible sustain, the glassy smoothness of the frebobard & frets (just can't say enough about that), and the tremendously good vibrato system. The light weight, the heel-less neck joint, and of course the incredibly convenient Sperzels. What I don't like about it are the inconvenient control placements, and the way the upper horn digs into my chest when I play seated. Other than that, this guitar is brilliant. Of all the guitars I've ever owned or played, this is my favorite (despite the above mentioned annoyances). Parker Fly guitars are not cheap, but there really is nothing else like them (at least nothing I've ever played).

Read any of these reviews and you can see an extensive list of the features of this guitar, so I'll just list a couple of my favorite. The shape and weight, it's so comfortable and so light, you hardly know it's there until you hit a note and boom off you go. The trem is really the best I have ever touched, and I've played them all. The only thing I would like to compare it to is a Steinberger trem, for God's sake they sell them for $700, just for the trem, they might be really good! The Piezo sounds great, but has too much high end. This is inherent in all Piezo's but easliy fixed on the Parker in two ways. One the small gain control inside the control cavity makes a large difference on output and you can just roll the tone back and out it comes. It really does sound better than most cheap and medium priced acoustics, but lacks the body and resonance on a good high end acoustic. All in all, this guitar can do just about everything you could ask it to do and it does it extremely well. The only complaint that I have is that you need a screwdriver to get the battery out, although a coin might pass, it would have been nicer to have a latch or clip type batter compartment.

Parker's guitars all sound different and the only different thing about the Fly's is the type of wood they used. I recently visited the factory with a friend and they really do put equal work and quality into each guitar they make. This is interesting, cause the overall design of the guitar is so solid that just this one element is all they need to change to get the guitar to sound different. I have two Parkers this and a Supreme and they sound very different. My deluxe is a little brighter actually, which is strange cause most people associate maple (the supreme) to be bright, which it is, but maple is also probably the most balanced wood so it makes a smoother tone as well. I can tend to actually get a little heavier sounds with my deluxe. But depending on my amp setup and pickup/tone configuration, just about every sound I need is there.

I have seen some complaintes here, and it boggles me. I have played probably over 50 of these guitars and never came accross one that had anything wrong with it. Mine was perfect from the factory and it was made in 95. And still looks near mint. I would not be surprised if many of you who have had problems bought these off the rack at a local store, and that is where the problem is, doubtful (although I don't say impossible) that the problem was from Parker. This is by far the fastest and smoothest fretboard you have ever played too. It feels like playing on glass. Seriously, it is extremely easy and fast to play.

These are lightweight and for that reason I think they should be treated with care. Although most people seem to suggest that they can take abuse. But I say, why should you abuse your guitar. If you are a musician then you care about music and without your guitar you have no music so take care of it. The one amazing point with this instrument is tuning. These guitars are incredible tuning wise. Currently I have my deluxe tuned down to C and I didn't even bother to adjust the setup. It feels and plays almost identitcal to E and whats better is, it virtually never and I mean never goes out of tune. Really an amazing feat. And since it has sperzels tuning and restringing is a breeze. One of the coolest features is the stop in the bridge so if you have it set right and you say are playing with it as a floating trem and you break a string, no sweat, push the bridge selector down and boom all of your strings are still in tune, perfect!

The guys at Parker have been nothing but helpful to me, and they will work to fix your problem. They are still a relatively small company so that might come into play sometime. I have not had one complaint about my guitar, but they seem to really stand behind their work.

Overall...these are the best guitars made today. They are almost completely hand made and stand up in every category to whatever you can throw at them. I have never seen one PRS, Gibson, Fender, etc etc that could stand up to them. I have 12 guitars and these are my favorite to play. There are some things I like about other guitars more for instance I love the feel of the neck on my Ibanez Jem 10th Anniversary but the neck on the parker is equally a great neck just different. These guitars kill, if I had to have one guitar to play everything this would be it. Not to mention, I personally think they are the coolest looking guitars made, with a close second being Gus Guitars (a very cool and outlandish English company, check them out too). All in all terrific!

Features galore. humbuckers and a piezio. One of the best trmeolos i have ever used. Very light and comfortable with stainless steel frets.

Sound is pretty good. I thought it was the best I had heard for rock till I got my Wolfgang archtop. Big complaint here, when you combine the front and rear hums together, it falls on its face. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE SOUND. I called parker about it and they sent me to dimarzio and they told me to buy new demarzio pickups. Hmmmmmmm.

Action was pretty good. Did have to do some set up on it. But the finish. OH MY GOD. Worst paint job in the business. My guitar has stress cracks all over it. If it hits anything, BOOM, instant chip. I called Parker about the cracks. For what I paid for this guitar this should not happen. They told me if I would ship it to them they would take a look at it and call me back with a price. PRICE MY ASS. For what these things are new, you need to fix this for free. This is a flaw on their part, not mine. The stress cracks are inherent to the guitar. Everyone I know who has one has cracks in the finish. This is not acceptable, period. All the knobs are in the wrong place. I constantly hit the master volume while strumming and the damn selector switch for the pickups is under every thing else. So if you need to switch pickups on the fly forget about. Worst design on a guitar i have ever seen.

Has been a good unit. I can rely on this unit eventhough it looks like I drag it to every gig behind the truck. Finish just sucks.

SUCKS. Yeah they will help you for a premium price.

I give it a six. It does play well and it is dependable with a good sound. Finish and service killed this score.

This guitar is full of features. From blending peizo and magnetic pickup sounds to having a fixed/strat style vibrato/or full floating bridge. A carbon fibre fretboard with stainless steel frets, etc. etc.

One of the few problems with this guitar is that the humbuckers are pretty lame. They are made by DiMarzio but I'm sure that DiMarzio has some better model pickups than what shipped with this guitar. Pretty plain sounding humbuckers but the piezo system sounds incredible - when you blend the two types of pickups you can get a very thick humbucking sound with the tone rolled almost all the way off and yet maintain some clarity by mixing in a bit of the acoustic pickups. Very versatile with regards to the types of tones you can get but they really should have put in some magnetic pickups that could stand up a little more on their own.

Incredible. This guitar does not go out of tune. The intonation barely ever needs adjustment. I'll put design elements in this catagory: The volume knob is not situated well - it's not uncommon to bump it while you're playing and either disappear entirely or come screaming to the front. I don't know how to describe the other design flaw - if you play really hard on the top 4 strings (say with your eyes closed and you're leaning way back) and then go to do a leadline on the first string you say &^^$(*#! where did the first string go? Well, guess what, it didn't break but it's trapped and stuck under the edge of the neck pickup and you have to pull it out and miss the first bar of your solo.

It is reliable - it will withstand live playing. The hardware is top notch (except the pickups). The finish is incredible, like hard candy. NEVER play without a backup unless you want to get fired alot. Don't have to use the backup for any reason other than broken strings.

Never had to use them. When you do want to get it set up take it to a licensed parker dealer. Don't take it to your regular guy becasue it's not a regular guitar.

I've been playing for more than 10 years and have owned strats, les pauls, and various other guitars - while each type of guitar has it's own personality, application and feel, this one feels the best overall. I think if you get used to driving a Ferrari you have trouble going back to a volkswagon - while volkswagons are good they just can't do the same things. If it were stolen I would replace it immediately without hesitation. It plays great and is reliable, I might replace the pickups and bitch some more about the volume knob but it's plusses far outweigh the minuses.

Ive got a late ninetys dark green parker the paint in awsome , its got the tremalo. Made from bass wood i belive and carbon glass . its got sperzel locking tuners and a gig bag.

The sound in my opnion i the best thing ive had a few guitars a couple PRS's some strats annd les paul and a Moore. I think that over all this is the most versital guitar ive ever played... its best decribed by Ed Roman he says the reason people dont like these is the dont know how to use them i belive thats the truth ... if you get a sales man whos not a guitar center dumass he may know how to tweek it and get it to sound great ..it has a rich palot of sounds that can be accessed and used.

By far when Ken Parker was creating this guitar he thought about people like me who want a accurate guitar ....becasue of the carbon fiber and the stainless steal frets its like playing on glass its allmost hard to play a nickel sliver fret after you go to the parker.

This is a problem have not had but ive read some things like mine fell apart but the guys i know who have one have had no problems ay all..

NA

If i got it stolen i whould beat the person who stole it with a heavier guitar and the get a new parker

1994 fly deluxe; gray finish. otherwise, you probably know everything else about this model RE its features...

the big selling point of course: the endless varieties of tones. a great pair of humbuckers (dimarzios) and the most state-of-the-art piezo anywhere. i've used at gigs as an electric, and at other gigs where i need an acoustic plugged-in/piezo tone. versatile, with a V.

totally clean; no problems. of course, it looks amazing.

seems plenty solid. the gig bag is very heavy duty, so it is well protected. at first appearance, because of its amazingly thin and light body, it might seem to be fragile, but so far, it shows no signs of being wimpy. use it mostly for gigs with a jazz/fusion band.

only had one contact--to verify instrument's model and age (bought it used), and they responded promptly.

the first time i saw a fly, i thought it looked flat-out weird. i happened to see pat martino performing on one several years back, and as a result, decided that they might be good instruments after all! anyway, the first time i picked one up, it fit me like a glove--an unreal comfort and ease of playability, coupled with the eye-catching design and the rainbow of tones, make this (along with a carvin fatboy) the best new electric design in years. i was very lucky to get it for the price i paid, and that was a bonus.