David, Kris and I each have more or less the same guitar, a nitefly SA. The p-42 differs in a few places from ours, or the nitefly-m (which would be the more comparable guitar to the p-42, priced the same as an -SA).
For one thing, the neck is not the same. You'd be getting an ebony fretboard instead of the composite ones we have. I like ebony though, but I can't say how this neck would feel. The frets are also nickel rather than steel (which is okay, the majority of guitar frets are nickel but steel is a little smoother). One of my favorite things about my nitefly is the neck, and a lot of that has to do with the material. Other than that the neck is probably pretty nice, ebony is nice and smooth.
I don't know much about the humbuckers you'd be getting. Mine has made-for-parker-by-dimarzio pickups in them, and while they're not perfect they're pretty good. Nitefly-M's have seymour duncan pickups.
Other differences are that I can't seem to confirm whether or not it has locking tuners, so it probably does not. It also doesn't have a tremolo (which I actually prefer, but thats up to you). Doesn't seem to have piezo either.
So those are the differences from the higher end parkers, but it is probably a very nice guitar in the price range, do you know where it's made?
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