My Flys (1999 & 2010)
Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2024 8:45 pm
I hadn't uploaded some pics of my Parkers yet because I had never stopped to take a good 'documenting' picture of them. But I was taking photos of some guitars today and figured this was a good time to do it! 
I have only two Parkers: A 1999 NiteFly, and a 2010 Fly Mojo.
The NiteFly is a mahogany body with a mahogany bolt-on neck, in Transparent Cherry and two original humbuckers.
The shortest way to describe this guitar is "perfection"!
The weight distribution is perfect, the playability is one of the easiest I've ever encountered, allowing for textbook form and posture, the neck feels perfect in my hands, the sound is clean and resonance and sustain and all are 'spot-on'. ...and I think that's why I actually don't play this one much at all, it's flawless, to the point I find it a tiny bit boring.
I've been debating selling it, since I don't play it much, and this is such a nice guitar, it deserves to be played.
The finish isn't flawless, though, it has some dings (mostly on the back) from 25+ years of playing.
The 2010 is a Fly Mojo Flame Series with a Trans Purple Burst, all mahogany, with a flamed maple.... cap? or is it a veneer? And somebody put Bare Knuckle pickups in it at some point. I haven't been able to find out what pickups, because Bare Knuckles provides no information at all!
This has been my main guitar since I got it. It had issues that needed fixing (the nut and the saddles). This guitar was gigged hard by the previous owner(s), but it is in remarkable good shape, with no significant dings or scratches or chips, just some faint 'cobweb swirls' where the pick hits the top most.
The neck doesn't feel as delightful as the NiteFly (it's thinner, I like chunkier necks), but everything else to me feels better, in a flawed way; it's difficult to explain, it's like when you get along with someone that nobody would ever guess you would get along with, like... Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart.
I can easily get more growl out of the 2010, probably because of the pickups, so I gravitated towards it. And the sustain and resonance, ...only a Parker owner can understand!!
I have only two Parkers: A 1999 NiteFly, and a 2010 Fly Mojo.
The NiteFly is a mahogany body with a mahogany bolt-on neck, in Transparent Cherry and two original humbuckers.
The shortest way to describe this guitar is "perfection"!
The weight distribution is perfect, the playability is one of the easiest I've ever encountered, allowing for textbook form and posture, the neck feels perfect in my hands, the sound is clean and resonance and sustain and all are 'spot-on'. ...and I think that's why I actually don't play this one much at all, it's flawless, to the point I find it a tiny bit boring.
I've been debating selling it, since I don't play it much, and this is such a nice guitar, it deserves to be played.
The finish isn't flawless, though, it has some dings (mostly on the back) from 25+ years of playing.
The 2010 is a Fly Mojo Flame Series with a Trans Purple Burst, all mahogany, with a flamed maple.... cap? or is it a veneer? And somebody put Bare Knuckle pickups in it at some point. I haven't been able to find out what pickups, because Bare Knuckles provides no information at all!
This has been my main guitar since I got it. It had issues that needed fixing (the nut and the saddles). This guitar was gigged hard by the previous owner(s), but it is in remarkable good shape, with no significant dings or scratches or chips, just some faint 'cobweb swirls' where the pick hits the top most.
The neck doesn't feel as delightful as the NiteFly (it's thinner, I like chunkier necks), but everything else to me feels better, in a flawed way; it's difficult to explain, it's like when you get along with someone that nobody would ever guess you would get along with, like... Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart.
I can easily get more growl out of the 2010, probably because of the pickups, so I gravitated towards it. And the sustain and resonance, ...only a Parker owner can understand!!
