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Gear Discussion Forums => Other Bass Brands => Topic started by: Highlander on May 29, 2020, 01:34:37 PM
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Now this is a rarity and no idea of a true value...
No connection to seller...
I know Flat Eric has one... but without going through his page I'm not sure if it was 8 built...
Axis bass on UK Ebay (https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Peter-Cook-Axis-Bass-Guitar-V-Rare-1-Of-Only-8-Produced-See-Details/143616230338?hash=item217031c3c2:g:UWoAAOSwKx9ezpGU)
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very nice!
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I bet it's very heavy and with the strap button over the 16th fret, noticeable neck-dive.
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I don't remember Flat Eric saying anything about excessive weight... but...
He "gifted" or "supplied" Peter Cook with a Axis guitar as he did not even own one of his own builds...
Eric's bass is different, as shown...
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I don't remember Flat Eric saying anything about excessive weight...
The body is a thick slab of rosewood. Unless it's chambered, this will be a boat anchor. OTOH this may reduce the neck-dive.
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I've asked the seller about the weight...
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In answer to the "boat-anchor" question...
"It’s weight is one reason why I haven’t lugged it to a gig, mind you it’s not as heavy as my Gibson RD Artist now that’s a real pain in the neck to play, but the Axis is heavy enough..."
Relisted... has a few other basses for sale... hard reality for a variety of musos and other lockdown folks... needs the money...
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In answer to the "boat-anchor" question...
"It’s weight is one reason why I haven’t lugged it to a gig, mind you it’s not as heavy as my Gibson RD Artist now that’s a real pain in the neck to play, but the Axis is heavy enough..."
Relisted... has a few other basses for sale... hard reality for a variety of musos and other lockdown folks... needs the money...
Nice way to avoid telling you the actual weight. Easy enough to get close using the bathroom scale method.
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I found it funny that we both owned a PC and an RD, Dave... not many folks like that... at least my PC is NOT a boat-anchor, and my RD has been "trimmed" a wee bit... :mrgreen:
In contact with the seller at the other place... I think he mostly plays Fenders... has a couple of other out of the ordinary basses he's selling too... a '67 Coronado 1 and a '67 Hopf Saturn... there's also a Precision Cabronita, which is not that common over this way...
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The beastie's back again, forever on the wish list but beyond anything I could afford... same seller... he's saying one of seven built...
Peter Cook Axis Bass - £1650 (https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/133672547360?ul_noapp=true)
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That's a cool bass. Price seems reasonable?
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There's a well known photo of one with JAE... Flat Eric's is the reverse colours to this one... if there was the capital I'd be on that beastie in a flash, boat-anchor or not... lol
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Didn't sell and now reduced to 1490GBP
I just don't think he's going to find a buyer and not being a "classic" shape it is just an oddball to anyone but an instrument collector... sad reality...
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Didn't sell and now reduced to 1490GBP
I just don't think he's going to find a buyer and not being a "classic" shape it is just an oddball to anyone but an instrument collector... sad reality...
There's a right price for everything.
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There's a right price for everything.
The problem might be that you could count all the interested parties on one hand? I know there is one guy who buys a lot of John Birch guitars and basses when they come up for sale. There's a chance that if you are bidding on a John Birch instrument you are up against this guy, so that will drive up the market. I'm not sure a Peter Cook instrument even generates the sort of ripples that a Birch instrument does. We know who he is, we know that he built things for John Entwistle, but is there more of note beyond that?
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I guess everything about Peter Cook these days centres on the amount of people and companies producing some sort of trib to his FenderBird and ExplorerBird concept, that (obviously) originated with JAE... as noted above, the only issue this beast has it's her unique design... nothing else that similar...
PC is vary JAE, can't argue that... ;)
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The problem might be that you could count all the interested parties on one hand? I know there is one guy who buys a lot of John Birch guitars and basses when they come up for sale. There's a chance that if you are bidding on a John Birch instrument you are up against this guy, so that will drive up the market. I'm not sure a Peter Cook instrument even generates the sort of ripples that a Birch instrument does. We know who he is, we know that he built things for John Entwistle, but is there more of note beyond that?
Exactly. And that's why it hasn't sold at the asking price.
I guess everything about Peter Cook these days centres on the amount of people and companies producing some sort of trib to his FenderBird and ExplorerBird concept, that (obviously) originated with JAE... as noted above, the only issue this beast has it's her unique design... nothing else that similar...
PC is vary JAE, can't argue that... ;)
So many tributes, and how many younger players know of Peter Cook these days?
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So many tributes, and how many younger players know of Peter Cook these days?
Sad but true...
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Out of curiosity, what are the pickups in the Axis bass? They look surprisingly modern against the general '70s aesthetics of the bass. Anything exotic like low impedance designs?
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Peter cook spoke to "Flat Eric" on the instruments some time back but did not got to much further than, "At this time I also developed and made the ‘Axis’ guitar and bass with an active, on board parametric tonal system..."
He worked on both my RD and his own build I own; I've spoken to him on FB... Flat Eric let him have the Axis guitar he located... I believe he still owns the bass shown in his blog...
AFAIK the pickups are of his own design and are fairly conventional, but without a strip-down I'm not sure... PC is pretty reticent to discuss his instruments and is very aware a few words could alter the value of an instrument...
http://flatericbassandguitar.blogspot.com/2011/01/peter-cook-axis-bass-and-guitar.html (http://flatericbassandguitar.blogspot.com/2011/01/peter-cook-axis-bass-and-guitar.html)
A video link on the above link is dead, unfortunately...