The whole guitar appears to have been sculptured out of one piece of solid wood, there are no steps or sudden ridges in the profile. Every part just seamlessly blends and flows into the next. There is no neck heel and the back of the body is scalloped out and just hugs your body. The asymmetric design balances just right and when played in a sitting position the lower side cut rests over your leg.
 

It is beautiful, fast and easy to play, the neck profile being quite wide near the body wide but very shallow. It never goes out of tune and the intonation of the 2 octave scale is perfect right from bottom to top E. Even though the guitar is so light (sure makes a change from hefting a Gibson Les Paul) the sustain is pretty unbelievable, even when it's not amp'ed up the whole guitar just sings.
 

I've never had a guitar with a tremolo before and still don't use this as much as I might, but even after experimentally extreme dives it still returns to pitch. The tremolo can be used in 3 modes, fully floating (up & down), semi-floating (down only) and fixed. If I have any criticism of this system, it is that to fix the bridge; the large knob, set into the body below the tremolo, has to be turned clockwise / up about 10 - 12 increments to do so. To tune the guitar, during string changes, the bridge has to be fixed, then to go back to fully or semi-floating the nut has to turned back  the same number. Getting back to exactly the same position can take some time until you develop the knack. This is a bit cumbersome. To go from fully floating to semi-floating takes just the flick of a small lever on the back of the guitar. I can't help thinking that the addition of a second lever, this would have to be quite robust, adjacent to the first lever, could be used to fix the bridge. If used fully floating string bending results in the 'non bent' strings de-tuning although bends of 2 tones are pretty easy due to the reduced string tension as the bridge de-tunes. I generally use it in semi-floating so I can still put vibrato on chords but bending strings doesn't cause de-tuning.
 

The pickup arrangement is more versatile than even the listed options would lead you to believe. The 2 custom DiMazio humbuckers sound warm and ballsey and the active EQ gives the tone a wide range. The bridge also has a piezo electric pickup system built in and the output of the humbuckers and piezo pickups can be split to different amps / effects. While the piezo doesn't sound exactly like an acoustic for solo use it does sound enough like one to use in a normal band mix / intro, especially if put through an acoustic amp and / or an extra EQ rack / pedal. I also use this pickup as though it's a normal bridge single coil through an effects pedal. With a bit of tweaking down I can get a good trebly cutting edge whilst eliminating the harshness.
 

The head stock may look a bit flimsy but the undercutting on the underside enables the truss rod adjustment to be easily performed. The whole guitar has a coat of composite resin, 'thinner than the paint', applied and this may give added strength to the structure. It may also contribute to the tuning stability as I have found the guitar is not sensitive to humidity changes like many other guitars. The locking spretzle tuners are great and string changes are not a chore.
 

Now to what appears to be the most contentious feature of the Parker, the composite fingerboard with the stainless steel glued on frets. I don't know about you but I got quite a shock 2 years after I bought my first guitar to find I had to spend half the value of the guitar to replace worn out frets, I bend strings quite a lot. I felt this was an industry con to keep the money coming in after you'd got the instrument.

It crossed my mind at the time that this was a pretty silly situation and I thought that it was probably a carry over from traditional guitar design, after all up until Les Paul most guitars had gut strings. It took Ken Parker to realise that the part you regularly change and throw away should be softer than the bits on the guitar. i.e. Strings and Frets.

It's not as simple as just replacing the normal nickel alloy frets with stainless steel, for some reason you can not insert S.S. frets into the neck in the normal way. I have tried to get S.S. frets fitted to a guitar I am currently having made but the only way this could be done was by sending the neck to Parker and having them do it; too expensive.

I like this set up, the fret size and profile is fine - they and the fingerboard are totally unmarked and look just like brand new. Apparently Ken Parker still has some prototypes from 10 years ago, played daily and they are still like new today.