Yes, it’s legit. Any time you see a cedar Fly, however, it’s mostly like a USM-era Fly (like the one you linked in your post) as Ken only made a handful of cedar Flys—cedar particles can stay in your lungs and become disastrous for certain folks with an intolerance to it; Ken is one of these individ...

Hi DLQ —the Fly “Standard” only came in the Deluxe variant, unfortunately. That’s not to say that there aren’t custom shop orders or other one-offs out there, but—if they exist—they are more like from the USM-era than the first decade. This Mojo , for example, is from a family of custom shop orders ...

Hi colliderman —it’s from this listing: https://www.ebay.com/itm/235230973953?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=TEFnCCqlSIe&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=t2FC-pxrRIC&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY …and I believe they called it Galaxy Gray—we’d have to check the...

Hi colliderman and welcome! An exact record does not exist. We can speculate, however, and from what Ken Parker and others that worked at Parker Guitars in Wilmington have said, the Fly Supreme was not a rare model; it was a bit more expensive than a Fly Deluxe because of the materials (highly-figur...

Of all the Fly guitars you built, which were your favorites? I love ALL my children, of course! My true faves have spruce or cedar bodies, so in spruce (one-piece of sitka spruce from out your way) it would be the “Artist” if you need the magnetics, and the “Concert” if you don’t. Cedar bodies were...

Thanks for the kind words, rmrosa —I’m glad the Fishman Aura video was helpful! My personal opinion is that the Flys are all quite versatile and you really can’t go wrong. Ken didn’t design them, specifically, to be heavily processed, so although they also sound great when juiced up with effects, th...

I wonder why/how the seller arrived at “27” grand and not “24” or “32” or any other number—maybe there’s some inflation factor they’re considering relative to what they paid in 2008… So, I realized, today, that we had the advertisement for this USM Koa Select Fly advertisement linked in the catalog...

…and let’s not forget that the white finish is Ken’s favorite color…except: https://youtu.be/8-PpS6zKm04 :lol: There were about four or five white Redwood-neck Fly Deluxes made (according to Ken)—I have one too! All the rest of that batch of about 60 were black. You may know this already, but Ken hi...

You got the Butternut!!!!!!!!!! Congrats!!!!!!! 🥳 Here’s some info on the different types of wood, but you’ve got a rare one that Ken and crew only made about 50 of due to limited supply of butternut wood (the body material). There are several other tonewoods variants that have existed through the y...

Well—this was a new one: Ken's associate Cameron's Fly with a Douglas fir body! Of note: Cam worked with Ken in Wilmington from 1993 until the USM transition in 2004, helped Ken in 2004 during the formative years of Ken Parker Archtops , and is working alongside Ken fulltime at present at KPA. Durin...

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Love it, @Nefarius! Great to see these photos (again!)!!!

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There you go, jb63 : https://reverb.com/item/40571466-parker-fly-limited-edition-tulip-wood-36-of-36-signed-by-ken-parker-1998-emerald-green-transparent?utm_source=rev-ios-app&utm_medium=ios-share&utm_campaign=listing&utm_content=40571466 1BB66865-F392-4FCF-990E-53C1AEBB7A54.jpeg Availab...

Welcome to the Fly Clone Project, a site dedicated to preserving information about the Parker Fly and other Parker Guitars. For more info on the Fly Clone Project, click here ; we are a research effort of the Electric Guitar Innovation Lab at WPI. Start Here Nearly everything you need to know about ...

Hi Keckerst , Happy to respond and speak highly of my Fly Artist, other Fly Artists I’ve played, and my two Fly Concerts, which are effectively Fly Artists without magnetic pickups. Of all the Flys I’ve owned, the Fly Artist, to me, sounds the least like all the others; granted, the different tonewo...

Tonewoods Below is a comparison of tonewoods used on Parker guitars that originally appeared on the official Parker Guitars website: Parker Wood Guide.png Official Fly Models The various models of Flys denote the distinct wood combinations used. Below are the names that appear in the official in ca...