NGD: Parker Fly Deluxe 1998 Emerald Green

[Shawn]

Not *all* together. I've got them kind of split up. Five of them are here with me in London (1997 Artist, 1999 Classic, 2000 Stealth, a 5-string Fly Bass, and a Southern NiteFly). The rest are stored back at my Dad's place in the US (a Deluxe, Mojo Singlecut, a NiteFly-M, and an older HSS NiteFly) [crap, that's nine, not eight. No one tell my partner!]

I have this shot of the US ones plus my Southern NiteFly from my last visit back to my dad's when I took them all out for cleaning and restringing (I carried the NiteFly back to London with me). Plus an old shot of the Classic and Stealth together.

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The only refined one I have in the whole collection is the Deluxe. I do agree that the electronics setup is generally an improvement. You lose a tone-control on the piezo, but I don't really care much about that and I'd rather have the push-pull pots and more robust point to point wiring (none of my ribbon cables have gone out completely but the one in the Artist is a bit flakey sometimes and eventually I'll probably try to get them all converted to P2P).

Very nice collection. I really like that silver one.

 

[Dusty Chalk]

Congrats! Sweet guitar. I love me my Parkers. Despite their retrofuturistic look and still-ahead-of-their-time design, they are the most organic sounding guitars I've ever played, bar none.

 

[maccayoung]

very nice guitar! I have a hardtail and it's crazy how light it is. I'm keep an eye on reverb/ebay for one with a trem but the prices just seem to be going up and up.

 

[TimSE]

Best guitars ever. They should still exist…perhaps one day.

7 string Parker is my profile pic.

Yea man a Maxxfly 7 is on my bucket list now. Rare af from what I can tell but if I get the chance, I'll jump on it for sure.