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The Firebird was an interesting guitar. All came about when a friend of mine found an unused, unfinished Firebird body in a shop he had just taken over in Worthing. I always fancied a Firebird but they were out of production (in the mid-'70s) and originals were rare and rather expensive. I read a series of articles about British luthiers in a guitar magazine at that time. The articles were mainly about acoustic guitar builders but then along came one about Peter Cook. I looked him up, went to see him and asked if he would build me a guitar about the body I had found. He said "No" but would build me a complete guitar from scratch. I went for it and included a two humbucker plus Strat single coil (in the mid-position) combination with switches to allow any combination of pickups, in and out of phase selection, and a single volume control positioned to allow violining. I also specified the long Gibson Vibrola tail-piece and Grover machine-heads. I liked the guitar but found that because of the very long scale of the bass E-string it would very quickly lose its "twang" and sound rather dead. That was really the only issue I had with it. Another guitar I wouldn't mind getting back but no idea where either of them are now.
Great looking guitars, and very much of their time with the heavy bodies and all the extra switches. Thanks for sharing the photos of them and your equally remarkable shirts!