Newbie Brad
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Only the ones with frets. I was always pretty sure Parker won't make a custom guitar that hasn't had frets installed. Anyone heard of any Parker custom shop fretless guitars?
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Take a look at the fret access on an ESP Ninja - seems impossible to play the upper frets, right? Not so - I had one and every fret was accessible without discomfort.
That said, this Parker is amazing. I thought we'd be getting a cheap 7 string without the carbon fiber, but I'm very pleased. The neck is all covered in the carbon, or is it just the fretboard?
The whole back of the guitar is covered in carbon fiber. The headstock as well.
This looks amazing! I wonder if my store still has them on order.
Lately though it seems as these companies are getting pretty greedy, the idea behind a large company putting out hundreds/thousands/hundreds of thousands of guitars is that you can reduce the price per guitar....but if they can gauge people then all the more power to them.
How much do you think it costs to make a guitar in the developed world these days?
Ask a builder to make this exact guitar and I can guarantee you it'll be more than the ~$3.5k this is going to cost, and it's going to take a good while to deliver. This isn't your run of the mill super strat.
The bridges need to be custom machined. You can't just buy epoxy fretboards from LMII. Introducing carbon fiber wrapping is something that only a very small cross section of luthiers can do.
Now, after making the guitar, you have to sell it to a distributor and dealer, both of whom slap some mark-up on the price.
Isn't this supposed to cost well above that mark?
Looks hawt, I don't understand people hating on the dragonfly, reminds me of Nolly's vik, although I prefer this...
Yeah, this body shape has really grown on me.
Yeah, this body shape has really grown on me.
anybody noticed the shopped piezo knob on the grey hires pic?![]()