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And new gear days are usually very happy.

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What does HNGD stand for? :oops:

The only thing I can think of is

Have
New
Guitar
Dudes

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I'd keep it myself, but I have 3 other two pickup guitars, a DragonFly (superstrat) guitar, 3 saxophones, 2 wind controllers, 3 wind controller sound modules, a couple of keyboards, more sound modules, two samplers, a flute, and a full PA system. I'm a working musician, and these are tools, so I have to keep the "tool chest" somewhere near efficient and tidy. ;)

This one is still brand new, so I figure it should be the one to go. And at a thousand dollars less than the price of a new one elsewhere, somebody is going to get a good deal.

I've had a couple of people inquire, but no takers yet, so if you want it, there is still a chance. :wink: :wink: :wink:

Of course if you don't want it, you can always look at the pictures and drool on the keyboard like I do when I see other people's beautiful guitars.

Funny, guitarists have more GAS than saxophonists. I guess because they come in so many shapes, colors and pickup configurations. I've been a sax player all my life, a guitarist for a few years, and I have more guitars than saxophones. Perhaps I should have taken up ukulele instead :wink:

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I've posted an ad on "The Swap Meet" board here:
https://www.guitarnoise.com/forums/viewtopic.php?uid=19006&f=34&t=50360&start=0



More pictures here http://www.nortonmusic.com/parker_fly.html (warning, severe GAS zone).

I'm happy with the DragonFly, it has the pickup configuration I wanted and sounds great, I don't need another two pickup guitar, so the Mojo goes.

That's the follow up on this story.

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It's almost January, and I haven't heard from them yet. They were first informed on the 22nd of November, so it seems unlikely that they even care about the mistaken shipment.

If it works out well, I'll be able to sell the Mojo fly for enough to pay for the Mojo and the DragonFly in essence giving me a free guitar.

What could be better than that!!!!

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PS - hope you get to keep the other one - fingers crossed for you.]]> Guitar Players Discussion Apache https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/hngd-parker-dragonfly-pix-and-review/#post-361975 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/hngd-parker-dragonfly-pix-and-review/#post-361955 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 18:33:07 +0000
Their flagship guitar is the Fly. The Flys usually have a Fishman pickup on the bridge, and they have a carbon fiber back, neck, and fretboard. The carbon fiber gives extra strength and rigidity to the neck so it is resistant to bowing and/or warping, and the smoothness of the carbon fiber fretboard makes bending strings as easy as slicing warm butter. This is the guitar that Parker Purists believe is the logical evolution of the guitar, however, they are expensive.

The first Parker I ever played was my duo partners. We went to Sam Ash in Margate Florida looking for a new guitar for her. She is petite (115 pounds) so we didn't want anything too big and heavy. We played Gibsons, Fenders, Ibanez's, and a host of other guitars. The salesman pulled a Parker PM10 Hornet down, and we both immediately fell in love with it. The Hornet is a variation on the Les Paul theme, made in Korea, and at the time Parker's attempt at the normal guitar market. It has a mahogany body, Graph Tech nut, and an ebony fretboard. It's light but still has good sustain and it is so well built, you have to bring it outdoors in the bright light to see where the neck joins the body. The seam is smaller than a human hair and the grain almost matches. Plus, it sounds great and is very well balanced.

I have a 1970 Gibson ES330 and an Epiphone Casino. I bought the Casino to gig with since the Gibson is now a classic and worth a lot of money (I play sax, wind synth, guitar, flute, vocals, percussion controller and sometimes keys on stage, and switching instruments are an invitation for dings and scratches). The Casino is light, and sounds great but I got a weekly outdoor gig on a salt water lagoon about 1/4 mile from the Atlantic Ocean. I didn't want salt air inside the hollow body guitar corroding all the electronics so I modded an ESP/LTD/EC-50 that I got for almost nothing, and started gigging with that. The problem with it is that it's heavy, an I've had bursitis in my left shoulder since I was a teenager so I started looking for something lighter, and the first thing that came into my mind was Parker. They are famous for light weight guitars that sustain like much heavier axes.

Plus ... I've also always wanted a Strat-ish gutar, but I hate the short radius Fender neck. I know they do make one model with a 12" radius, but it has guaranteed to look ratty in the Florida climate gold hardware -- plus it's also heavy.

So I ordered the Parker DragonFly. It was built in the USA, has a radial neck joint (designed by Ken Parker himself and gets rave reviews), it has an ebony fretboard with stainless steel frets, it has a Graph Tech nut and Sperzel locking tuners, comes with the Duncan Pickups many strat players replace their stock pickups with (my Casino has Duncans and it sounds better than the "identical" Gibson), it's lightweight, has a SSH strat pickup configuration plus a Fishman so it can also sound like a flat-top acoustic. The on-line music retailer gave me free shipping and a 45 day satisfaction guarantee. So I figured the only thing I had to lose was return shipping, and the guitar is light. So I gave it a try.

This was the first time I've ever purchased a guitar on-line, and I would have much rather bought it from my local Mom and Pop music store (who gets the majority of all my business), but he couldn't get the Parker without becoming a Parker Dealer and he is too small to carry that much high end stock. I was a bit nervous, but the 45 day satisfaction guarantee helped. I'd know in less than a week if it was right or not.

I'm happy with the guitar and I made out OK on the mail-order experience but I still prefer to try these things out at a local guitar store first.

I've been playing it for a while now, and the more I get to know it, the more I like it. I can make it sound like a strat, gibson, almost a tele, it has a great jazz sound, and quite a few others hard to describe, especially when mixing a little of the Fishman pickup with the Magnetic pickup sounds. I'm not done exploring it.

IMHO this is the guitar that Fender or Gibson should be adding to their lines instead of simply making endless "signature" and "reliced" variations of their great old war-horses. But sometimes it takes a smaller company to push the technology further (Fender was a small company when it invented the Tele and Strat).

If you ever get a chance to play a Parker, you will know what I mean.

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I really like the wood-finish, looks like the guitar has a nice tone to it - and from your description - it apparently does :)

Hope it will serve you well!

Just one question: Weren´t you a bit nervous about ordering the guitar without having had a chance to play this particular example first, you know - to try it out and see that everything feels right about this particular guitar? I´ve sometimes come close to ordering a guitar online, but have never done it because of this.]]> Guitar Players Discussion Staffan https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/hngd-parker-dragonfly-pix-and-review/#post-361950