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- Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:19 pm
- Forum: Info and FAQs about Fly Guitars
- Topic: Fly Pickups (Gen 1, Gen 2, and Other)
- Replies: 57
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Re: Fly Pickups (Gen 1, Gen 2, and Other)
timshephard , the pole piece height adjustment is a matter of personal preference. You can adjust them to balance relative volume between strings, coils, and pickups; as well as to emphasize or de-emphasize bass and treble frequencies. If you’re trying to get a D28 sound out of humbuckers, you may ...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:06 pm
- Forum: Show Us Your Parker
- Topic: Another day, another circus.. my ultra-rare Fly Cardboard..
- Replies: 1
- Views: 53
Re: Another day, another circus.. my ultra-rate Fly Cardboard..
Best signature model.
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 12:40 pm
- Forum: Fly
- Topic: Fly Parker Preamp Issue
- Replies: 4
- Views: 71
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 9:57 pm
- Forum: Show Us Your Parker
- Topic: My new old guitar needs some help - 94 Fly Deluxe
- Replies: 2
- Views: 103
Re: My new old guitar needs some help - 94 Fly Deluxe
Crumplepunch , Congrats on the acquisition, and welcome to this little corner of the Parker Guitars community. Though I can't offer a solution to all you've mentioned, we can certainly get started on some of them: The good news about your black finish is that you can fill cracks and chips with blac...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 9:00 pm
- Forum: Fly
- Topic: Where does my bridge ground wire connect?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 78
Re: Where does my bridge ground wire connect?
Though I haven't owned a Parker which left the factory with Ghost saddles, Piplodocus , I've installed them on a few Flys. I take it the underside of your Fly bridge looks like this: fly ground 2.jpeg Rather than fly ground.jpeg If you have no roughed spot on the underside of the bridge, I'd say you...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 1:50 pm
- Forum: Classifieds
- Topic: When Buying Used Flys:
- Replies: 8
- Views: 23001
Re: When Buying Used Flys:
Since VJ and MMGuitar is too nice to say it My reasoning has been that, given his selling practices were never in violation of Reverb or eBay policies, there was no reason to pillory his name in matters where merely describing what I found distasteful about the selling practices themselves would be...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 12:57 pm
- Forum: Lost & Stolen
- Topic: LOST: 1999 Fly Artist Natural
- Replies: 8
- Views: 391
Re: LOST: 1999 Fly Artist Natural
Was the transaction through Reverb Payments, or a third party processor such as PayPal?InsideInfo wrote: ↑Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:54 am my belief is, the seller of the artist still should have received his money back from Reverb but since this was 6500 bucks, they were much less willing to take the hit. Selective relief is not protection...
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 6:07 pm
- Forum: NiteFly
- Topic: Pickup tone sounds tinny.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 150
Re: Pickup tone sounds tinny.
@mikejcurtis, we’d also be happy to listen to a recorded example; just in case the tinny sound is anything more than dialing in the new guitar for your rig.
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 9:51 pm
- Forum: Adaptated Parts, Mods & Projects
- Topic: Guide: Fly Sustainiac Installation
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8543
Re: Guide: Fly Sustainiac Installation
Bump. Here's how to consolidate the Sustainer on/off and normal/octave-up switching to a single tone control pot, as the Adrian Belew Fly does: You need to modify a dual gang push-pull pot. Because Bourns seems to produce the only readily available one, that's what I'm using. You can modify a standa...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 2:58 am
- Forum: Classifieds
- Topic: “What’s This Worth?” Thread
- Replies: 498
- Views: 608593
Re: “What’s This Worth?” Thread
This heavily modified Emerald Green '95 Deluxe (253145BP) with Alan Hoover-installed Sustainiac and holes from a GK pickup popped up on Reverb ten hours ago for $2,480. The seller is including the Gen 1 neck and clipped ribbon assembly components so that the guitar "can be restored to original&...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 5:51 pm
- Forum: Adaptated Parts, Mods & Projects
- Topic: Replicate Fly piezo electronics
- Replies: 31
- Views: 13575
Re: Replicate Fly piezo electronics
Crazy question. Does a "best" parts list exist of exactly which parts to get to replicate a pre-refined fly? I love my 'new' guitar but to my ear there seems to be something missing that makes my '96classic sound so robust. ( I guess I should have asked that question in my initial post). ...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 1:23 pm
- Forum: Classifieds
- Topic: Stuff I found on Craigslist
- Replies: 77
- Views: 55756
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 7:15 pm
- Forum: DragonFly/MaxxFly
- Topic: PDF85 wiring questions
- Replies: 10
- Views: 554
Re: PDF85 wiring questions
Right now I am trying to figure out why I have a bit of a whine/hum when going through an amp or using the wireless on my pod go. If I plug directly into the pod there is no noise[...]is it possible the 9v is backfeeding through the system somehow? Just to be clear: Your signal path is Fluence pick...
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 2:18 pm
- Forum: Adaptated Parts, Mods & Projects
- Topic: Replicate Fly piezo electronics
- Replies: 31
- Views: 13575
Re: Replicate Fly piezo electronics
I've got some VintageVibe Charlie Christians I'd love to try pop in one of these days, yet another project. Please let me/us know how you like them. I have a Fly bridge pickup wound by Pete, and have held off on asking him to wind a jazz neck pickup because all my current Flys have Sustainiacs. The...
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 1:37 pm
- Forum: Adaptated Parts, Mods & Projects
- Topic: Replicate Fly piezo electronics
- Replies: 31
- Views: 13575
Re: Replicate Fly piezo electronics
The really weird thing is that the volume pot for the piezo and the magnetic pickups turn in opposite directions to increase the volume. I hadn't noticed until it was all assembled. If you swap the outside lug connections for the pot gang sweeping in reverse, it should then be wired right-handed. I...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 5:35 pm
- Forum: Adaptated Parts, Mods & Projects
- Topic: Replicate Fly piezo electronics
- Replies: 31
- Views: 13575
Re: Replicate Fly piezo electronics
from your drawing I’m not sure where the summed piezo wire goes when it enters the control cavity. The most recent drawing is a different circuit for if you want to try a 25k tone pot; in which the summed piezo lead wire is soldered to the input soldering pad on the Powerchip, and a jumper wire sol...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 2:12 pm
- Forum: Adaptated Parts, Mods & Projects
- Topic: Replicate Fly piezo electronics
- Replies: 31
- Views: 13575
Re: Replicate Fly piezo electronics
Let's figure out the tone pot first: I tried the 250k concentric pot wired as described[...]and no change to tone. Per your post on the previous page, the project you're troubleshooting is a PDF70 with GraphTech Ghost saddles. How are the saddles being summed together, and how are you connecting the...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 7:06 pm
- Forum: Show Us Your Parker
- Topic: New guy, 98 Deluxe, 1 owner
- Replies: 1
- Views: 158
Re: New guy, 98 Deluxe, 1 owner
Welcome, timshephard , and thanks for the fun background info about your Fly. Unless I’m misunderstanding, you’re having an issue getting the trem to balance against the step-stop block with a 9-42 string set using the 9-rated spring (and have had to shim it to close the distance), and are also inte...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 1:43 pm
- Forum: Adaptated Parts, Mods & Projects
- Topic: Replicate Fly piezo electronics
- Replies: 31
- Views: 13575
Re: Replicate Fly piezo electronics
I'm guessing the top 3 lugs are the volume pot with the 22k resistor bridging the outside lugs. Yes. Where it says 'solder wires to old PCB connection' do I solder all 3 vol pot lugs to the old connections or just lugs 1 & 2 All three. You're swapping a new volume pot 1:1 to the old pot's board...
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 2:25 pm
- Forum: Classifieds
- Topic: Looking for Pre refined electronics
- Replies: 1
- Views: 176
Re: Looking for Pre refined electronics
I'm looking for replacement parts for all of the pcb type components. Any informations or hints welcome. If you're attempting a 1:1 restoration project, that's going to be difficult; because the iteration of the preamp used in the 1990's has not been produced for many years, and has not officially ...