Fresh from Pat Wilkins and my buddy/guitar tech, here she is!
Funnily enough, this is the color I would have bought if one had been available! I'm not sure how many were made in Taxi Cab Yellow, but mine is now! A few things: when I got the guitar, it had a couple of problems, namely some cracking in the ebony, a poor setup, and a few finish chips in the body. I'm not one to poo-poo a guitar with some wear, but the satin emerald green wasn't my cup of tea. I was able to get a decent deal on it and decided I'd make it the color I wanted. Pat Wilkins did a great job and I'm quite happy with the results, but in the future I'm going to try and get the color I want the first time. Any sort of "deal" I got on the guitar originally is long gone thanks to the refinish, but whatever, I'm happy with it! My tech also fixed the cracks in the fingerboard and gave the guitar a fantastic setup; it had the spa treatment, alright!
Compared to my pre-refined Fly, it's a different beast altogether. Comparing it to a Fly, I could see people being underwhelmed with this guitar, but if you look at it as an HSS superstrat with a quartersawn maple neck, ebony fingerboard, stainless steel frets that weighs about 5.5 lbs, it's quite the guitar. I also got lucky that there's a bit of flame on the neck. I am happy to say my Strat is a Parker. Of course, I'm not ditching my Fly Classic anytime soon either!
So, for cataloging purposes, here's the serial number: 1006033
If the serial numbers for the Dragonflys follow the other Parkers, this dates it to June 3, 2010 and was the 3rd guitar (Dragonfly or overall, I wonder?) produced that day. It is technically a DF524, but now with a Taxi Cab Yellow gloss finish, I suppose it's now a DF624!
