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You also have to monitor the airflow after each coat. You want enough air moving over the guitar so the solvents evaporate BUT if you have too much airflow it will dry too fast and you will have entrapped "solvent dots" in your clear
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Hey can we get someone on here that's knowledgeable enough to give us a step by step, stripping & refinishing course on these guitars??? obviously it's our own risks but it would be nice to know how First off use good quality Urethane auto paint like House of Kolor or other. SPI has good qualit...

Try Chris Raposa . Chris was the first painter at Parker, the best painter Parker ever had (92-95). Chris is setting up his paint facility in MA, should be up and running early Spring 2024. He may be willing to paint Parkers complete with serial numbers , side markers and logos. I really doubt he wi...

I stand corrected ! I left in 1994 and that change was after my tenure.

It looks like Galaxy Grey which is House of Kolor BC03

Best Painter, I just talked with Chris Raposa. Chris was the first painter at Parker, (92-95) He was the best painter Parker ever had. Chris is in RI, has set up a paint studio. You might be able to have him paint your Parker. It won't be cheap because he's a perfectionist. If you are interested ema...

Correction,

Not fiberglass,,,carbon. Here's a pic clearly showing that it is carbon. Of course US Music may have used fiberglass. They did a lot of dumb things !

Last night I watched on Prime TV the best music documentary about the blues that I have ever seen, entitled "Born in Chicago". All of the greats are in it with original footage, Harvey Mandel is in it playing a Fly trem, at the ending he is playing a Fly painted in a flame design. The only...

Come on people,,,it's not rocket science!!

I have a 12. PM me if interested

I realize that this is an old poist. Sorry but I don't come here often. Yes, I set up the paint systems for Parker. Initially I only used House of Kolor. Larry wanted badly to switch to PPG because he was afraid that HOK might not be able to keep up with demand. I resisted because I thought that HOK...

I don't know anything about the use of silk screens.

FWIW, Korg was bought outsometime after I left Parker

2nd P.S. If I remember correctly using INT's was the idea of Bernie Cherin. Bernie was a retired gentleman who we hired just to answer the phone. Bernie was much more talented than that !! Untimately he was the bookeeper, order parts and maintained the parts inventory, and managed all of the shippin...

P.S. We used INT's for the logo as well. Remember that I left Parker in the Spring of '93 after we got into production (went back later to help with the tooling for the Bass) so things may have changed after I left

INT's : I don't know how USM did it but we used INT's.

Yes, Korg owned 49% of Parker Guitars. (Japanese/American company. Parker used Korg's marketing System. The guitars were sent first to Japan because of Korg

also, ALL of the first guitars were white (Black was later) using House of Kolor Brite white polyurethane and House of Kolor clear polyurethane. Most of which were shiped to Japan

The serial number were INT's (dry transfers) not silk screen during my time at Parker