How Are We Not Talking About This?

I have had no real issues with Parkers.

my #1 has been regularly played since 2009. The most I’ve done is minor intonation adjustments.

My #2 is probably a 1999 model. I bought it used. I used it for about 5 years until I got the other one. I sold it to my niece’s husband. He had it for a couple of years. It had a short in the input jack when I got it back. The tech had to fabricate a replacement. Otherwise, it has been great.

come to think of it, I sold him my Nitefly years ago, and he had some type of short in it as well (passive circuit). What is he doing to these guitars???
 
In their heyday Parkers were pretty high on the list of electrics that made the techs groan as soon as they saw the case walk in the door. Just because it was so alien to everything else with the different leaf springs for different gauge strings Double locking bridges are a pain but they're so common. The only thing more universally disliked was a 12-string Rickenbacker. Incredibly tedious to string the 6 side mounted tuners, double truss rods that don't behave predictably, even the truss rod cover is hard to get on and off without detuning..
 
Mincer said:
Tell him to stop running them through the dishwasher.
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Modern methods for modern instruments. I don't think manufacturers these days have any business offering guitars that aren't dishwasher and microwave safe. That's almost as bad as having to leave it plugged into the wall all the time.
 
switchman said:
Sounds like a vote for Poly finishes. How can Nitro Lacquer protect the wood if it can't even protect itself from being eaten by my guitar case, stand, or strap??
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I was just being a glib ding-dong, but I don't mind poly at all on a solidbody electric.
 
The true purpose of nitro lacquer isn't to protect the wood or sound better. It's to fall off in a cool looking way on old strats. Poly looks ugly when it ages.
 
GuitarStv said:
The true purpose of nitro lacquer isn't to protect the wood or sound better. It's to fall off in a cool looking way on old strats. Poly looks ugly when it ages.
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hahaha seriously it's like guitar industry version of planned obsolescence. I wonder if all the people making a living now relic'ing guitars thank the stars that Fender and Gibson didn't use durable finishes back then. Fender actually used Dupont acrylic a lot more than people realize but with Nitro over it. Now people expect reissues to have lacquer they didn't have in the first place :lmao:
 
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