Patzag wrote: ↑Tue Jan 02, 2024 10:32 pm

Patzag wrote: ↑Tue Jan 02, 2024 2:06 pm ... sprung for a life-long dream ...

I'm surprised no one commented on this yet ...

Ya know—I was gonna ask…”did I miss something?!” Is there something you’d like to share with the class, Patrick?

jb63 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 02, 2024 5:18 pm Besides, its red.

Nice!

Please post an asking price. Thanks

Patzag wrote: ↑Sun Dec 31, 2023 12:50 pm We need a DROOL emoji!

Soloaxer wrote: ↑Sun Dec 24, 2023 6:38 am This topic just might turn into the Fly Family Health Resource thread.

I love this!

…the "we sold 10000$ guitars for 4000$" comment… I've been seeing that adage repeated more and more often in the FB (support) groups; where the owners invoking the prices seem to be quoting different numbers every time I was going to draw attention to that phenomenon as well, which I’ve a...

For the sake of your marriage you’re gonna need at least one more Fly!

Congrats, @Swinghammer, and welcome! That’s one sweet Italian-Canadian Plum!

I just took some measurements of my Fly Mojo and a Fly Deluxe: The Fly Deluxe DiMarzio Gen 1 pickups have the same spacing for both neck and bridge pickups. The Fly Mojo has narrower spacing for the neck pickup and a confirmed “Trembucker” “for the bridge pickup. I used Marc’s approach to trace the ...

Hi ohadaadr —we have 3D models of parts here and of the Fly body here . Please note that these are CAD not CAM, so you'll have to write your own toolpaths. Additionally—and unrelated to Flys, specifically—you may be interested in a project we're doing in our lab called Fretology of which Ken Parker ...

...so...I bought a Virtual Jeff a few weeks ago after mmmguitar had mentioned it a while back—thanks for introducing me to it, Marc! It's effectively a polyphonic pitch-bend pedal with a controller resembling a whammy bar that you double-sided tape to your guitar. I'm still getting used to it, but I...

mmmguitar wrote: ↑Sat Dec 09, 2023 5:15 pm …“SH-2N TB” to denote it as being a neck Jazz wind in Trembucker spacing.

…so both SD pickups in a Fly Mojo have the same Trembucker spacing? I have a spare set I can check somewhere, I’m sure

I’ll just add to what Mark has shared, but—stating the obvious—there is a lot to this, but the physical size of the spring, though an observable factor, is not in itself an indicator of how the spring will operate (or its rating). If your spring floats the bridge properly with a set of strings then ...

…the only thing that differentiates the JB and Jazz in the Fly Mojo vs. what you'd get from the store is the mounting ears and the squared off edges of the pickup. Is that correct? Yes, that is correct. The bridge pickup JB in the Mojo is what SD refers to as “trembucker” spacing (of the pole piece...

Correction, not fiberglass,,,carbon. Thanks, marvin —and what a great photo!! Ken Parker confirmed that in the very early days there was a lot of carbon used on the back of the Fly, but that very soon the amount of carbon used was minimized to just a thin 1" strip with the entire back then bei...

Not a problem—happy to help 👍 if you can unscrew the pickguard and take a photo, that would help us make sense of what’s going on. If you’ve never done something like this before, you can loosen or remove the strings and then use a screwdriver to remove the screws from the pickguard, and then gently...

Hi JoshPsyken —it would be helpful if you could learn/share what you mean by “bypassed”; specifically, if the piezo preamp was removed. On an NFV2, the piezo preamp is passive, so it would be need to be run into a piezo preamp outboard (see the NiteMix ). If there’s no preamp in your instrument, the...

Hi @yanstep99—we have a replacement board in development in a private section of our site. Please DM me if you’d like to discuss some of that.

yanstep99 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 04, 2023 7:14 pm has anyone checked into whether the original board Gerber file is available?

Yes, and it is not available.

Fly guitars have rather wide widths, like 1 11/16" nut widths. I can confirm that the nut width of all Flys and NiteFlys was 1.6875 or 1 11/16” during the Ken era; the Fly Nylon is the only exception. The shape of the nut changed on Flys during the USM years, but, to my knowledge, the width di...