i played parkers exclusively for six years and owned the following models:
Classic
Nitefly SA
Nitefly Southern
Spanish Fly
Butternut Ltd
PM20 Pro ...don't laugh- it sounded better than the american made models.
i had internal roland gk pickups installed in my butternut and classic models. i'd have liked to post some pics, but i don't say any "attachment" button on this screen. oh well.
in my experience, something gets lost from the pickups to the output jack because these guitars all sounded incredible unplugged. most of us know that if a guitar sounds good unplugged, it's only going to get better when you plug in, right? not in my experience. i believe a big part of the problem is the dimarzios. i'm not going to go on a tirade against dimarzio, but i WILL say they're not right for these guitars. i don't know if the duncans helped with the mojo model, as i never got a chance to try one. as much as i wanted to be different and stuck with the parkers for quite a while, i ultimately went back to the "standards" - strats and les pauls. ken parker is an awesome engineer who created the best vibrato system out there, created the world's fastest neck- not to mention the most stable. i NEVER had to touch my truss rods, and i live in new england where we can have 90% humidity in the summer, to 10% in the winter. these things do not budge! he also truly created something DIFFERENT, and built it with otherworldly precision workmanship. unfortunately, that doesn't always translate to superior sound. i've gotta say- as crude as a strat is, it just sounds better. leo really got a lot of things right early in his career. i have a feeling out of sheer luck though, or maybe a deal with the devil. i prefer the nitefly models to the glue in neck models for two reasons: 1) you can change the pickups. and, 2) the necks are slightly narrower which makes it easier for guys like me who like to reach around with their thumb to fret notes. wow, i've been typing for a while now. what was the question again?!