Does anyone remember MusicYo? - Opinions and Polls

Re: Does anyone remember MusicYo?

EzraplaysEzra — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 15:55:56 +0000

You got me thinking and I've found that the Parkers are a lot more affordable than the used to be... a Fly might be in my near future - I've been looking for a Marshall Jubilee but I've been pretty happy with my amps lately.
Don't worry, if I get one I'll let you continue writing all the love letters to mister Parker - I'll just pipe in with my agreement.

BTW what model do you have?

Re: Does anyone remember MusicYo?

notes_norton — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 03:12:52 +0000

We get it, you love your parker...sheesh.<...>. Excuse me if I get over-enthusiastic about it. I've had it well over a year and the honeymoon still isn't over.

Re: Does anyone remember MusicYo?

EzraplaysEzra — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 06:17:11 +0000

We get it, you love your parker...sheesh.

Kidding, if I were going to get a "modern" styled guitar it would be between the parker fly and a suhr. I think I might prefer the parker in looks and features but that neck is sooo little. Someday maybe.

Re: Does anyone remember MusicYo?

notes_norton — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 21:29:24 +0000

You'ld like this one. Nice and flat. It's a 16" radius. I probably would. It looks good.

The short radius is rather standard on strat clone guitars. I did find a Parker DF with a 14" radius SSH design with a coil tapping Humbucker and a Fishman Piezo under the bridge. Ebony fretboard, hardened stainless steel frets and about 5 pounds. It's my go to guitar now and has been for a year and a half. I hardly touch the Gibson, Epiphone and ESP anymore.

Notes

Re: Does anyone remember MusicYo?

TRGuitar — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 09:02:34 +0000

The finish appears to be poly but the cool thing about this is there don't seem to be many out there. It apparently isn't something that Gibson continued to persue so it is very unique. As I said, it sounds and plays great. I think it would have been well worth the origional price tag and certainly worth way more than I paid for it. We got my son a bass around the same time, same deal, liquidation. His bass is a Tobias. Multiply neck of maple and wenge (African walnut if you will), neck through with maple wings. Again, origionally $659 and we got it for $359. A steal!

Re: Does anyone remember MusicYo?

EzraplaysEzra — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 07:25:56 +0000

Ah yes - I now see the "s" in pieces. I read that five times because I didn't think you would think such a thing. It may very well be single pieces for both. Single piece bodies are pretty rare now but not too too long ago they were common place. The neck was probably made from a single piece but sawn and re-joined inverted at the head stuck, it might be too weak otherwise through the break-angle. I assume. None the less, a superior neck construction in my experience. I bet it rings like a bell. Any idea what the finish is?
A little unsolicited and semi-related tip for anyone making a guitar - joining two pieces of wood at an angle will diminish the visibility of the joint. A little harder to clamp and glue but very good results since single piece body blanks are increasingly difficult to find. However - a great source of wood is antique furniture auctions. Last year I bought a 8x4 solid Mahogany table top at auction. It was huge an heavy and not one bid was put on it so I took it home for $1.20 (steep commission price, huh?)
I'll probably get 10 blanks out of it.

Re: Does anyone remember MusicYo?

TRGuitar — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 05:30:07 +0000

No ... I mean the neck is one piece and the body is one piece. Not the whole guitar. :D Most of my other guitars you can see the joint where the 2 neck pieces are joined at or below the head stock. I can usually see where the grain looks different in the body pieces where they are joined as well. Not on this one.

Re: Does anyone remember MusicYo?

EzraplaysEzra — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 05:25:51 +0000

Never seen one of those before. Nice guitar. If you removed the neck pickup you'd see the tenon for the neck joint. Constructing a guitar like this of a single piece of wood would be far to complicated to be cost effective.

Re: Does anyone remember MusicYo?

TRGuitar — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 02:51:40 +0000

You'ld like this one. Nice and flat. It's a 16" radius.

Re: Does anyone remember MusicYo?

notes_norton — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 02:30:55 +0000

I bought a faux strat from them on a clearance. Decent guitar for the money, but I just couldn't get used to the short radius neck so I traded it in at a GC. Got as much for it in trade as I paid for it.