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I've always got on very well with the Parker fly guitars. Very nice indeed. Different again from the Brian. May special red special and different again from a Les. Paul, it's well. It's it's nice to have a selection. God bless

Very interesting process. Unique and very innovative especially for the time. I love my 99 classic! Most incredible sounding guitar with the piezo and humbuckers rocking. No other guitar sounds as good. Period

I was quite shocked that workers were filing carbon fibre without a respirator, carbon dust is highly carcinogenic,

Very impressive building technique

Phill sent me 🤘🤘

Wow! Awesome post man! I've owned my emerald green Parker NiteFly for 25yrs and this is the first time I see the making of the guitar. Thank you so much Bill.

Ken Parker is a really great craftsman

They proprietarily ran their selves out of business.

Guys like Mark Farner and Adrian Belew play Parker. This fact speaks for itself.

Why do people talk? It's so annoying 😂❤

I don't care what anyone says, parker guitars will always be the sexiest looking guitars in my book. Especially the Adrain Belew Signature fly with that car paint finish. The ideal guitar.

i wonder why they went out of business😂

So what changed with the stainless steel frets because just about every guitar Maker today is banging them into the wood fretboards without any splitting.

Hi guys? What do you think about the Parker PDF 22 strats? I bought one brand new yesterday

😍 That Eden rig though. 🤤

“Once they come out of the oven we let them cool”…. Guitars thrown all over the floor. 😂

So much work went into these guitars and it makes me understand why it was just not viable to keep it going. I do adore Parker Guitars and own two (a Nitefly and a P-Series), and I would love to see them come back in a less hand-made fashion to make it more viable.

"promo sm"

Who are all those young beautiful people?

I loved the sound of the deluxe model and the weird pickguard model with two single coils and a humbucker forgot the name to many models

This company was bought out just to kill competition. hope to own one someday

Parker was ahead of its time. It was and still is, expensive. Not a good combination for universal acceptance. But it is an exceptional instrument.

This video is pure gold!

Blah blah blah.. All you needed to do was have Joni Mitchell play a song or 3..

whyyyyyy are they out of business... so annoying. ..

It's a shame Parker went out of business only after a few years. Someone needs to start it up again!

This guitar was waaaay ahead of it's time... amazing!

So that's how it once was, nice and too bad they are not with us any more. But hey, there's Dan Aykroyd at 39:58 :)

Parker Guitars were just too late coming into the game. If Parker Guitars debuted their products in 1982, they would be the best and most popular guitar company in the world. Ibanez guitars wouldn't have had a chance at success. It is a shame that the most technically advanced guitar company is now out of business. This is a lesson to all that knowing the trends in music and timing is everything.

Amazing..............

Instead of redesigning the ugly headstock and broadening their product line to make less expensive guitars, the company needed to have focused on high-tech electronics, better pickups, single string pickups, midi and 12 pin connections, graphene technology, internet marketing and direct to customers sales (sidestepping dealers and scalpers). Hopefully they will see the light and ressurrect the original space age approach Ken Parker had and embrace the fact that linking guitars to digital modeling, acoustic modeling, guitar synthesizers, effects was the right idea from the get-go. I wish I had the moolah to buy the company and bring it back to life in the manner that would keep the vision alive.

This video from about 2005 is way late arriving and possibly was so delayed because of cost and product design changes not reflected in the video.

Fantastic video! Thank you very much.

Fantastic guitar, great sustain. Awesome video. Parker guitar is in my desires

I never knew about the incredible versatility of the tremelo and I never knew Parker used stainless steel frets! They were WAY ahead of their time! Everyone thinks Eddie Van Halen came up with the idea of stainless steel frets but it looks like all he was doing was copying Parker!

P.S, why did Parker Guitars 🎸 go out of business?

The last of the hand made American 🇺🇸 guitars 🎸. Such a shame they went out of business.

As a pre-refined Parker snob I'd love to see footage of the original factory in Wilmington, MA. All the "refined fly' guitars I've played pale in comparison and have started falling apart due to the cost cutting measures introduced after the company sold to USMC and the moved they factory.

Love my Parker’s I once did “walk this way” at a gig And my valve amp died so I carried on the piezo through acoustic amp. It went down so well we started playing it that way every gig until the Last chorus

More jam video

Specs ahead of their time

At min 16:46 he say he cannot reveal the detail of the scarf joint but at min 18:18 he show it to us. Given the cost of production I wish Parker could sell the licence to the Chinese and get this fantastic guitar back on the market.

The video is fantastic indeed, even though the host at times goes off into salesman rant. I've had 3 Parkers so far. As far as the pre-refined fly goes; if ever your onboard circuit goes inoperative (you won't find a new one), try this: order Alnico 8 bar magnets from China and replace original magnets. Alnico 8 will bring the coils to a better output and better midrange than the onboard preamp. Fly pickups operate freely of the battery but they still do get EQ'd by the preamp. A way to save a fly - alnico 8. Cheers.

Certainly the most in depth video I’ve seen on parker construction and the factory. Thanks so much for posting.

great vid - thanks for posting!

Great bit of Parker history. Thanks for posting!

Awesome video! How amazing for such a video to come out after all this time. Parker Flys are incredible instruments, ahead of their time, even by today’s standards. Great to be able to see the manufacturing process in such high quality video.

Thanks Bill and Kurt. Multiple conversions to get it here.

Good stuff Bill! Sounds great. I’m racking up your view count

That song gets better every time I hear it. Good job fellas.