There are
some instruments, George... there are
some instruments...
Bummer about Cook. He and the guys who designed Vox's Phantom 4 are people I'd love to talk to.
I met him a couple of times in the eighties (lived near Ealing in those days) and he did some work on 2 of my instruments (defretted my RD and some setup work on the T'bird) but the most he said about the Thunderbird was "Oh,
that one..." and that's her history... I live about 14 miles from his old shop... It's a bit like my Hiwatt amp; reputedly a one-off built for someone in Savoy Brown who went on to Foghat (again, no way of knowing and no way I'm selling), built by Dave Reeves, in his garage in 1970; although the garage is still there, about 3 miles from here... there are American's, most notably Mark Huss, who know more about the history than anyone I know here (in the UK)...
My Thunderbird, all cherry and gold, came in one of the most
garish cases I've ever seen, but who she was built for, I have absolutely no idea...
On Peter Cook, there are several rumours, the most extreme being that he is no longer with us, the most positive I won't be discussing at this point in time... If you contact his old shop the most you will get is that they have no records of his instruments and that he left the industry and is not contactable...