Parker Fly

Kilgore-Trout

Anyone else love these as much as I do??

check out www.parkerguitars.com if you haven't already seen these beauties!
when i have enough money saved i WILL own of these

Doctor J

I like them in a similar way to Steinbergers, I'm intrigued and I want one but I dunno if I'd buy one before a J Custom or Les Paul or PRS or etc etc etc etc

I'd like to see them use that technology in a more traditional design for closed minded old farts like myself

Mystic Fibrosis

Yeah, they're kinda pimping that whole futuristic angle which I think alienates a large part of the guitar buying public. It seems to me that most guitarists are distrusting of innovations like that. That said, I'd still like one.

Doctor J

I think there's potentially a huge market for whoever can build a guitar to appease the traditionalists which also has the technology of the likes of the Steinberger, Parker and Variax. The thing is, you know what you get with a Strat or a Les Paul etc. They're guitars with history, with character. The Parker Fly will, I think, look as dated in 10 years as the Roland synth guitar does today. The design of the classics are timeless, though perhaps conservative these days. If someone can build a Strat or Les Paul with the technology of the Parker and Variax but without interfeing with the Stratness or Les Paulness of the instrumetn, they could be on to a winner. Keep the technology discreet, don't interfere with the tone and the looks but take the advantages the tecnology allows and, yeah you'd have to give it a chance

dabhoys

Having the additional electronics of the variax tucked away nicely into a les paul would be nice alrite. Give a few more option but without ****ing up the LP as a whole. Would be cool alrite

fish-head

I think they're brutally ugly to be honest but I'm a vintage man when it comes to guitars.

feylya

dabhoys wrote:

Having the additional electronics of the variax tucked away nicely into a les paul would be nice alrite. Give a few more option but without ****ing up the LP as a whole. Would be cool alrite

Sorted

Ravelleman

Ye gads! That guys rocks.

feylya

Correct.

Doctor J

***KNOCK KNOCK***

"Who's there?"

"PRS"

"PRS who?"

"PRS' lawyers, we're going to ride you a new arsehole!"

Kilgore-Trout

Doctor J wrote:

***KNOCK KNOCK***

"Who's there?"

"PRS"

"PRS who?"

"PRS' lawyers, we're going to ride you a new arsehole!"

Priceless!!!!!!

Ravelleman

Doctor J wrote:

***KNOCK KNOCK***

"Who's there?"

"PRS"

"PRS who?"

"PRS' lawyers, we're going to ride you a new arsehole!"

Meh, he's not building them commercially is he?

Shanannigan

i kinda like the maverick ones with the pots turned on their side and sunk into the body... attractive to look at, but does it affect the sound of the guitar?

feylya

No.

Shanannigan

is that the long answer?

feylya

There is no long answer. It doesn't affect the sound of the guitar by having those sideways controls.

Shanannigan

i know... anywho.. i´m gettin an e-bow.. lookin forward to makin mad trippy music with that in my gigbag