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Three out of four
Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2022 9:18 pm
by jackak624
Hi All,
just joined, thought I'd share a pic of three of favorite guitars. The white and black ones are redwood-necked.
Re: Three out of four
Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2022 11:16 pm
by mmmguitar
Beautiful. Are they all Gen 1 Dimarzios, or did you get a different wind for the white bobbins?
Re: Three out of four
Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2022 11:19 pm
by vjmanzo
Yeah, @jackak624! Welcome!! I love those redwood-neck Flys!!
Re: Three out of four
Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2022 12:21 pm
by jackak624
Thank you MMM and VJ. The white one is apparently a very early model (serial begins with 173, so June of '93) and I was told a one off. The pickups were wound by Steve Blucher at DiMarzio for a cleaner sound, the guitar was supposed to be a "country" model. I think that's why they have white bobbins. Good eye, btw! The red one is a Mojo with Pearly Gates pickups, the black has the standard Gen 1s.
Redwood Neck Fly in White Finish
Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2022 12:59 pm
by vjmanzo
…and let’s not forget that the white finish is Ken’s favorite color…except:
https://youtu.be/8-PpS6zKm04
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 himself had a hand in making everyone of those redwood-neck Flys since they were the first production run. An excerpt from
this post on Redwood neck Fly:
vjmanzo wrote: ↑Tue Jan 19, 2021 1:59 am
Ken has confirmed on numerous occasions that the Fly he intended to mass-produce was the Fly Deluxe with a redwood neck and a poplar body...that was the first production Fly from 1993. He made the first batch of around 60 Flys and, when the next batch was made without him selecting the redwood pieces, when the Flys were finished, there were certain Flys in that batch that produced wolf tones, which is not uncommon for redwood. Sadly, you can’t really tell if redwood will produce wolf tones until you finish the instrument! Ken must have intuitively been selecting “better” pieces of wood for he first batch of Deluxes, but when that job was given to others in his team, according to Ken: some of the Flys had the strangest, unearthly sympathetic vibrations. Those Flys with wolf tones were destroyed, and Ken decided that redwood was too much of a variable for a production line so he switched to using basswood for the necks. Parker Guitars almost went out of business in 1993 over that!!
#WoodTypes
Re: Three out of four
Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2022 2:51 pm
by mmmguitar
jackak624 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 28, 2022 12:21 pm
The red one is a Mojo with Pearly Gates pickups
Ah. I had to zoom in to see the trem bushing on the Mojo. How do you like the PGs compared to your other Flys’ pickups?
Re: Three out of four
Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2022 6:04 pm
by jackak624
I like them a LOT! Balls-ey, more bottom end, but harmonics fly off the strings. That Mojo is probably the best guitar I've ever owned or played.
Re: Three out of four
Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2022 6:49 pm
by jackak624
Hi VJ - thanks a lot for the little vid and caption. I agree with Ken - the white flys look pretty freakin' cool! Also cool to have that info about the redwood necked flys. I feel so fortunate to have a pair of them.