...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...

If anyone would like to point out the remaining differences between a Nitefly and P38 besides the neck, I'd be interested to know, as the only other thing I'm aware of is the tremolo. Hi neoftn —I can answer this question: the biggest differences between a NiteFly and a P38 are that every aspect of...

According to factory employees from that era of production, Flys and Niteflys which couldn’t meet final QC standards for whatever reason were offered up as “seconds”/B stock for employees to buy or complete themselves at a discount. I’ve heard Ken and others contradict this outright and state clear...

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...

Gotcha!

Okay—then let’s keep checking toggles, pots, Flex PCB, and the jack. But before we do that, what strings are you using (brand and gauge)? A very rare scenario, but some strings have ball ends that, when coupled with the bridge, interrupt the signal flow of the piezos.

Have you checked/adjusted the small trim pot on the Fishman preamp board? This should increase the level of the piezo output.

Hi yanstep99 —sorry to hear about this issue. We have a replacement Flex PCB at the moment, and Peaches (aka Ryan) is working on a replacement for the original Fishman board, but it will be a while, unfortunately. Apart from that, perhaps you can ask in the Classifieds section? Perhaps someone else ...

TheWaltzilla17 wrote: ↑Thu Nov 16, 2023 11:32 pm …help identify exactly what model and year it is.

I noticed that you have this instrument listed for sale on eBay.

Perhaps you’d consider revising the listing title and description since it is, in fact, not a Fly?

Hi essgee —these sorts of issues are best approached by isolating the variables (of course), so let’s consider the following points—this is my assessment only: -the cable you’re using; is it a quality brand with a US-made jack at the end? -flex Flex PCB; if it’s torn anywhere then things will not wo...

Hi RIJO , I recommend reading this History article for some context about the second decade of Parker Guitars when they were operated under the umbrella of USM. The name of both the Fly Concert and Fly Nylon models changed during this second decade. According Ken Parker in this video, the original d...

Seems like this seller is open to offers…

https://reverb.com/item/76014121-parker ... t=76014121