the Fly Clone Project

Yes, that’s right, you heard right.
Apparently, I have too many Flys.

I don’t even know how this happened.

If you know me and my posts, I really spend too much time & money modding them to see what sounds I can get out of them. I’m going to start with 3 of my favorites, all of which have graphtech saddles and electronics, which means that parts are still being produced.

You can read about them here:

viewtopic.php?f=21&t=260&p=2172&hilit=MIDI

...where I blather on about them.
Mistakenly calling them midi doesn’t mean you can’t use them that way, you would just need a box to go from the 13-pin out to a box that will allow midi commands. I use this to make sounds and play through and amp and the PA.
We’ll start with this— the 1st Fly I ever owned and the first fly I had modded. This had seen about a hundred gigs and most of them with the GK3 wart strapped on, playing alternate tunings Done with a Roland VG8 and working with a singer playing Joni Mitchell songs. The strap peg stripped so I had to move that and there were a few light dings but the fretboard was the best thing I had ever felt. It still is.the neck and fretboard are perfect. I had planned on doing the GK3 internal install, but this GraphTech install by Dayn Warren is where I ended up instead…

1996 Black Deluxe
208066BP USA
208 (day of year) July 26th
06 (Production Number)
6 (1996)

Note that the blemishes in the pictures are not bangs or cracks, but screw holes where a GK3 was installed and the moved strap pin.

The Piezo & Magnetic tone are both push-pull pots.
Piezo has the mid/dark switch and I mostly play with it pulled out.
Pulling the Mag Tone puts the humbuckers out-of-phase.

Because of the graphtech wiring, it is possible change the position of the knobs if you wanted to move the synth volume to the back and the mag & tone forwards or whatnot.

I have exactly $3200 spent on this guitar.
That’s right, I bought it when they cost what they’re selling for today. Weird, huh.

It has a good hard case and I will ship it to you for $3000.

Look at me! Operating at a loss in today’s marketplace!

Here are the frets at either end:
Here are the 2 places where the finish isn't perfect:
I don't even remember when then first ding happened and the 2nd is from using the truss rod.

I will answer any questions or offers or whatnot when I get home. I’d like to avoid Reberb & eBay because of the taxes and fees, but if I don’t get any nibbles here I’ll promptly list them over there.

I play this through a gr55 and I can set you up with all my settings and current patches on a flag drive if that will help your synthesizing needs.

Film at 11.

Thanks for looking.

jb
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Here are a few more pictures of the GK holes and the face.

Strap peg moved:

Ready for the next one?
I know I shouldn't put these all in a single post but its more for you guys than a listing.
I'm sure I'll end up having to put them on some stupid site with fees and taxes soon.
Next:

A 2010 DF824 Dragonfly
Serial # P1007105 BA USA

P (for parker?)
10 (Year of manufacture)
07 (Month of manufacture)
105 (Production Number)
BA (Basswood Neck / Alder Body)
This one actually has the Dragonfly Logo stamped on it.

Mods by Dayn Warren and I would really like to get $3300 shipped.

Pickups are stock Seymour Duncan Custom 5 (bridge) & 2 Custom Flat pickups are nice and rich-sounding, but for what I do I really like the passive dimarzios more and that's why I've decided to part with this. The coil tap on the tone knob gets you that 3-single-coil strat flavor, which is what I mostly use, but you can re-engage both coils on the humbucker and play the Duncan Custom 5 with a little piezo mixed in and shred out on leads if you do that.
Comes with this case:
DF824 frets:
These aren't as tall as they look in these pictures.
They play like a gibson to me but they are taller than on my SG.
Here's the pristine "no buckle rash" back.

And that's a wrap. More pictures in this thread:

viewtopic.php?f=21&t=260&p=2172&hilit=MIDI

Ask me questions!

Here's a nice cheap one!

A PDF60 of chinese origin.

serial# P2010052343

I would like $700 shipped for this one.
I specifically bought it because of the wand instead of the switch.
I had plans to modify it since it has a HUGE cavity, but ended up keeping it as a spare.
Its pristine and plays well, though it has nickel tanged frets which will one day need replacing. (no wear on these yet!)
The truss rod works perfectly.

Here's a comparison of the USA radial neck joint vs. the import radial neck joint.

They are NOT interchangeable.
Ask all the questions !

PM sent on the black one. Cheers.

InsideInfo wrote: ↑Sat Jul 15, 2023 4:36 pm PM sent on the black one. Cheers.

I sent a reply, but I cannot, for the life of me, tell if my responses go anywhere. I can see this, but don't know how to get them to move.

@jb63, the outbox is there to let you know he hasn't been back by the site to see them, yet (His profile page says he was last here on Monday). The messages are automatically recategorized from "outbox" to "sent" once the recipient has viewed them. Hopefully he has email notifications for board messages turned on.

I recently deleted some outbox messages of mine which had gone unseen by their intended audience since 2020 or so (cases in which the user apparently made a single Parker-related post requesting or advertising something in the moments before being swallowed by the earth).

mmmguitar wrote: ↑Wed Jul 19, 2023 1:53 pm …in the moments before being swallowed by the earth

Just bumping this thread to the top for a minute. Over the weekend I will list these elsewhere.

Zero bites here. Not even a curious offer. Not complaining just saying that maybe you can post TOO much information about your fly... er, flys.

Anyway, play 'em more than I do, that's the point. I'll be glad to see the prices go down.

jb63 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 16, 2023 6:28 pm Zero bites here. Not even a curious offer.

I feel you. Every piece of gear I've sold in the past few years has been through eBay or Reverb, despite having listed them for lower prices on messageboards such as this one. It seems like people are becoming increasingly blind to alternatives to the biggest sites.

I'm interested in the white PDF60!

Its still here, boxed up with a box outside of the USM shipping box.

The black one is sold?

Nope.

Pm sent

I have a question regarding the white PDF60. I thought all of these PDF guitars were made in Indonesia. I wasn't aware they were ever made in China. I see some Chinese Parkers on eBay but always assumed they were counterfeit. Do you know what year it was made? The serial starts with 20, but I know Parker was gone by then.