Parker Guitars, Watcha Guys Think?

[johnw]

Hmmmm, i always had a fancy for the shape of those guitars, feeedback?

[DC Ross]

Some of the best, in my book. I'm surprised they caught on as well as they did, since guitarists are, by and large, such a traditional, fickle lot.

Check out this article/interview from the ToneQuest Report: http://www.kenparkerarchtops.com/ParkerTQRDec09.pdf

[Workingman]

Cool interview in the link thanks. Not to be too nit picking but the intro is just wrong. there were lots of factory mass produced guitars out there before rock n rol hit. Many of them were real dogs. Ever play a Stella? Parker in the interview sites the poor quality of many pre rock archtops, including a 1930 Gibson.

[Diffidentia]

Personally I'm a big fan of Parker guitars. So much, in fact, that I'm planning to do a neck-thru Dragonfly (without the carbon back) soon.

As for the Parker vs. traditional guitars discussion, Parker has tried to catch the eye of a larger guitarist community by releasing a guitar (still the Dragonfly) that's more in line with "normal" guitars but that still retain some of the features of the original Fly.

[Wademeister]

Love those guitars! I used to want one sooo bad. But I've been playing bass for the last 5 or 6 years and Parker's bass design is disgusting to me. ***? Couldn't make the bass like a larger version of the guitar?! Maybe one day I'll build the bass I think Parker should have made =)