Do you even need the fancy jack? You could Belew that as well (with a 1/4 jack instead of 13 pin). This is true - But you end up losing the relative convenience of the power and digital-out options unless you perform Belew-level mods to re-route everything. I think I remember hearing back in the da...

alembicman5 , We had someone on the old Parker Guitars forum transplant a Variax into a Nitefly - So it can be done (just rout as much room as you need, and make sure the bottom bout of the body is wide enough for the T/R/S-RJM-45 combo jack plate assembly). How are you powering the 500? I ask beca...

Maybe this is a Marc thing, but I refinished my 2025 project Fly yellow as well (sadly, no more photos until it's assembled sometime in this next calendar year). Gotta love those guitar bananas! Oh, and if you intend to fit a GK pickup on that, it looks like you'll need a pickup ring adapter to affo...

In practice, I use my guitar synth gear for hexaphonic processing, rather than MIDI. For thirteen years or so, now, I've been using a GR-55 for guitar modeling, alternate tunings, layering, and triggering pads. Though my Axe FX has a monophonic synth I can use for the latter two, the hexaphonic unit...

Apologies if this has already been measured or ruled out: Might there be a radius mismatch to explain why the fret is lifting on the edges? In typical tanged fret installations, you want the fret over -radiused (curved) so that hammering or caul-pressing it into the slot will force the crown to conf...

I also saw on Roland website that the gm800 synth modeler already has a GK in so I assume there no need to use the gk dc converter? The GM800 is a "GK Serial" (1/4"/6.35mm T/R/S plug) unit which receives a digital signal. There is no input port on the device for the previous generati...

Bumping in case anyone else is interested: Elantric at vguitarforums has confirmed that the GK5 internal kit's output wires terminate in a five pin quick-connect header (four conductors and a shield) purely for the sake of having a solderless way of connecting to a non-proprietary switching T/R/S Cl...

KenanJ , three holes are required to be drilled for the internal pickup mounting (I'm using the GK3 for reference; because I haven't installed a GK-5, yet): Two for mounting screws, and one pilot running from the underside of the pickup into the control cavity so that the wire bundle terminating in...

I'm still curious if having to make a full turn or more of adjustment is typical for a Fly that has never been exposed to harsh conditions. Thanks. I would say so. If the neck was previously straight without the truss needing to exert any force of its own, the truss rod (piano wire, in your case) w...

I have a PDF80 and the manual states "Lemon oil mixed with beeswax will keep your fingerboard from drying out". But I've always read that lemon oil is a cleaner and will dry out fingerboards. Is there a better option for cleaning and conditioning the ebony fingerboards? I know everyone sw...

Can't say that I am. The only thing cooler would be doing so with the Fly Cardboard model.

sevenstringer37 wrote: ↑Sat Nov 16, 2024 2:51 am Doh! Thank you, PM sent!

You're in good company. People have been mixing up the Billys for twenty years, and they're both too helpful for that to stop any time soon.

mockchoi , here's a helpful GR-55 input settings guide from the vguitarforums I used for my Graph Tech and RMC setups: As we all know we don’t all have GK-3 pickups installed on all our guitars and some of us have multiple guitars with different Pickup systems. I will cover some basic principles I ...

I don’t care about having the guitar signal going through the 13 pin cable. Does your rig/intended setup utilize running 13 pin and 1/4”-outputs simultaneously, or are you exclusively using modeled guitar tones with the 13 pin-out? Depending on your needs, you could make the most of the available s...

I’ve done a few Hexpander installs, mockchoi ; if there’s anything I can help with. You can always make a wiring harness out of cardboard/posterboard/whatever you have to test what all can be fit in there without all the spaghetti in the way (any Graph Tech setup is going to be a spaghetti factory b...

I sometimes get the sense that USM was just making these model numbers up as they went along. Nef's Toxic/Virtuoso/DF845 was also referred to as a 825 by the company (Pat and Nef are, of course, the original owners we can trust to know for certain): https://x.com/parkerguitar/status/334801232453586945

It was proposed to me when buying parts from a guy named Chris Andrews in the UK maybe it’s the same person that @mmmguitar mentioned. I assume so. As I recall, he repaired Parkers for the UK distributor, and pops in from time to time: Thank you for the mention. Currently working for PRS Guitars Eu...

I'm unfamiliar with the DF835. Is it a 824 in HSH configuration?

I think the offcentering problem would act on the bridge and offcenter it too I can't say for certain - The sad reality is that many mass-produced guitars have alignment issues resulting from a nut's mounting being the smallest amount out of spec, a bridge rout being the smallest amount out of spec...

Can we source replacement nuts though? Someone more in the know will need to confirm/correct me on this, but the nut used on Flys from approximately 1994 through 2011 appears to be a tapered Graph Tech Black Tusq XL blank (#PT-4161-00) (slotted at the factory in a jig designed by Ken to cut four nu...