LOCKED-DOWN TUNING
Sperzel
®
tuning pegs are, without a doubt, the highest
quality pegs available, combining excellent quality
and design with minimal weight. In fact, the lightweight
aluminum construction of our tuning pegs is key to
the fine balance of Parker guitars. Bob Sperzel’s patented
locking device helps to keep guitars in tune, even with the
most aggressive, merciless flogging, and makes string
changes fast and painless.
MULTIPLE PERSONALITIES
Parker’s combination of DiMarzio
®
or Seymour Duncan
®
magnetic
pickups and Fishman
®
piezo pickups makes it possible to produce
powerful electric guitar tones and intricate, full-bodied acoustic
guitar tones. Parker, Fishman,
®
and DiMarzio
®
worked hand-in-
hand to develop both the unique pickups and the unique mounting
systems used to attach and adjust them. Our pickups are mounted
firmly to the body with pole-piece screws instead
of plastic rings, springs, and screws that float the pickups in
oversized cavities. The results of this solid connection are superior
tone and less chance of pickup squeal at high volume.
PERFECT PITCH
Our high-performance vibrato system can be
quickly adjusted to behave like a fixed bridge,
bend-down only, or floating bridge (bending both
up and down). The bridge pivots like liquid silk on
ball bearings.
EVEN RESPONSE
Quite possibly the smoothest, fastest-playing neck in the business, ours
is constructed from a solid piece of basswood or mahogany. With bridge
components of cast aluminum and stainless steel, it’s a bulletproof package
that’s easy to adjust. The paper-thin triaxial carbon/glass-fiber reinforcement
supports the vibrant wood structure, resulting in an amazingly responsive and
stable, yet incredibly lightweight, guitar with even tonal response. It’s a
patented construction you won’t find anywhere else.
SILKY-SMOOTH FRETTING
Our fretboard system consists of long-lasting
hardened stainless steel frets (not the soft nickel
of ordinary guitars), manufactured to precise
tolerances in the correct “half-round” shape and
bonded to our patented glass/carbon-fiber
fingerboard. The composite surface is quite unlike
a conventional wooden fingerboard and gets
slicker with sweat, not tackier.
1 P I E Z O V O L U M E
2 M A G T O N E W / P U S H - P U L L C O I L T A P
3 M A G V O L U M E
4 M A G / P I E Z O S E L E C T O R S W I T C H
5 M A G P I C K U P S W I T C H
T H E A N A T O M Y O F P E R F E C T S O U N D
Behold the love child of artistic passion and fanatical engineering. Parker Guitars are the first new idea in guitars in more than 40 years—a
revolutionary design that minimizes the weight and opens the door to a whole new universe of sounds. Knowing how they’re built will change
the way you think about guitars. Playing a Parker will spoil you forever. And owning one? Well, it just might change your life.
QUICK-CHANGE ARTISTRY
Large hall? Micro stage? Enclosed studio?
The smart jack on our active preamp senses
your cable type (stereo or mono) and
either splits the electric and acoustic sounds and
sends them to separate amps, or combines
them and plays both through a single
amplifier. Our mixer circuit allows
the volumes and tones of the electric and
acoustic sounds to be mixed on the fly.
PRECISE TONES
Set neck? Bolt-on neck? Our unique multi-finger
neck joint combines the best of both into a
slender, lightweight neck that ensures optimum
resonance from the body and neck tone woods
and resists the warping that throws lesser
guitars out of tune within a year or two. Our
patented neck design also eliminates the clumsy
heel for smoother, more comfortable upper-
fretboard access.
NO-FUSS ADJUSTMENTS
The Parker truss rod—only 1/6th the weight of
conventional rods—adjusts the neck easily to
accommodate string gauges from .008" to .013" as
well as different tunings. The lighter-weight rod
is another reason why Parkers are so perfectly
balanced and comfortable to play.
S C U L P T E D S H A P E B O D Y R A N G I N G I N T H I C K N E S S F R O M
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EFFORTLESS PLAYABILITY
Ranging from 3-
1/2
to 6 pounds and impossibly
slender, Parker guitars give many people the
impression that our instruments are made from some
kind of space-age plastic. The truth is, we use
lightweight tone woods of the highest quality and
reinforce them with a layer of composite that’s thinner
than the paint job. The result of this unique combination
is a guitar that’s responsive, lightweight and perfectly
balanced while sitting or standing, with no dead spots or
unevenness in tone.
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