Wow! Looks great. Can’t wait to see and hear the final results. Beautiful prototype, you have there. Can’t wait to see the next tweak/iteration or hear this one. Thanks guys! I'm really excited about it. It's technically a fretless guitar right now but it's not setup to be fretless since I should b...

So this took me forever to finish. I had to repaint twice. The painting was really the most difficult part for me. It did not come out perfectly still haha, but I'd had enough. Anyway, all it needs now are the frets. I had to reorder new fretwire since I made the mistake of ordering it precut before...

This is basically the USA-made bolt-on MaxxFly guitars - DF524, 624, 724. They're my favorite guitars of all time, even though they leave out some of Ken's tech. I really don't get why they weren't a success, but then - I don't get why Teles and Les Pauls ARE! ;-) I was also impressed with the Maxx...

Okay I think I hit the maximum number of photos. I have a few more to attach that I'll put in the next message. As you'll notice in the image of the truss rod in the previous message, I screwed up the truss channel a bit. It was my first time using a router and, well, my jury-rig jig was not quite ...

I can't believe another 5 days or so has passed since I posted last. But I got tons of work done on it. I had this thought as well. I was misunderstanding that even with modern manufacturing tools, materials and automation, making an instrument is still a lot of hand-work. They had CNCs at Parker Gu...

I love this thread and all the implications, but I have to also point out that the history of Rock & Roll is that most guitars are cheap and the admission price of getting a band together was more sweat than $. This will likely remain the purpose of the guitar until the collapse is upon us, so ...

I'm certainly interested. The sandwich construction is similar to Artistides' (theirs includes an injection mold with a substantial rear cavity space) and Ola Strandberg's Varberg body, in which I recall either the production model or a prototype being produced with three wood layers CNC'd with the...

I'm sorry for the delay. I've been multi-tasking working on this project, a new guitar composition that's kind of pushing me to my limit and a new guitar course haha. It's getting a little ridiculous. and I think, respectfully, that feature may be unflattering for most players’ technique/abilities O...

Thanks everyone! That really answers my question. Most would rather build a “guitar” than a Fly, for the same reason modern Fender factories borrow their production ideas from the 1980s Toyota model and not Delorean’s. That is a really good point. I guess in one sense it's inertia and, in another, m...

I'm new to the forum here. This is a question that has been burning in the back of my mind for years now. I think most of you will agree with me when I say that Ken Parker's innovations are the most significant for the electric guitar since the electric guitar was first invented. I've played on a Pa...