NGD - Peter Cook Axis 6/12 Twin Neck

HarrySeven

This arrived today, very much in a ‘raw’ state after many years in storage...

https://i.imgur.com/aXtM1aS.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/5xh7HPQ.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/AeqnhDF.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/QWXwsKJ.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/mkbxBJG.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/wLEiNPJ.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/dZMfaGt.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/bO5madm.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/nlO0FwR.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/iKOeq5o.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/WVSlqfc.jpg

SteveRobinson

Lovely.

prowla

That's nice.

Whilst most doublenecks seem to have the necks too far apart, the ones on that seem awfully close together.

scrumhalf

Nice.

My back hurts from just looking at it!

prowla

I contemplated buying this one a couple of years ago...

Funkfingers

Wot? No road trip thread?

Interesting pickups. Could be Armstrong - Kent or Dan.

HarrySeven

Funkfingers said:

Wot? No road trip thread?

Interesting pickups. Could be Armstrong - Kent or Dan.

Dan Armstrong, I believe...

Kittyfrisk

Gorgeous. Lovely hardware.
So many questions... what is the third backplate for? Is it for active pickups battery storage?

HarrySeven

Kittyfrisk said:

Gorgeous. Lovely hardware.
So many questions... what is the third backplate for? Is it for active pickups battery storage?

Yes, I believe so...going to investigate more ASAP.

HarrySeven

prowla said:

I contemplated buying this one a couple of years ago...

Dick Knight? A friend of mine owned it years ago when it was wayyyyy cheaper...

prowla

HarrySeven said:

prowla said:

I contemplated buying this one a couple of years ago...

Dick Knight? A friend of mine owned it years ago when it was wayyyyy cheaper...

I think it was priced at £3k, which was too much for me.

MtB

When's your museum opening @HarrySeven ?

richardhomer

Did Dudley Moore make guitars as well?

HarrySeven

Just dug a pic out from the archives...

https://i.imgur.com/GV5WLmw.jpg

Kittyfrisk

HarrySeven said:

Just dug a pic out from the archives...

https://i.imgur.com/GV5WLmw.jpg

You have an archive? Who knew... 
The 6 string pickups have been changed, but otherwise that looks like the beast all right, great find. 

blobb

That's a great picture. pickups on the 6 changed out do you think? Rings look original. The pups look like the KA Rainbow's on my second manson, which are different to the ones on my other earlier one, which have a little raised Rainbow on them.

Philly_Q

Do you know who made their hardware?  The 12-string bridge looks like the ones John  Birch used and I have a hardtail Strat bridge somewhere which looks a lot like that trem, with the extremely elongated saddles.

blobb

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49456606486_9e302deb72_b.jpg

OilCityPickups

Pretty much certain those six string pickups are Kent Armstrong Rainbows ... glorious pickups.

impmann

I have a few KA pickups from that period - definitely Kent's work. 

The later pickups ditched the 'Rainbow' logo and in fact he still makes them by hand to order. I recently had a matching Stereo Humbucker made to match an early 80s one I acquired on here. He had to dig out the resin-casting mould from his storage container to match it and he was full of apologies that he couldn't 100% match the resin (H&S, environmental stuff) but its a pretty much exact replica (overwound for the bridge).

If you pop them out, they will have little labels on the bottom with handwritten code on them. Kent (or his son Aaron, who is based in the UK) is very cool about decoding this, if you are interested. Fantastic pickups!

http://www.armstrongpickups.co.uk/

VERY cool guitar - do you know who it was made for?

HarrySeven

impmann said:

I have a few KA pickups from that period - definitely Kent's work. 

The later pickups ditched the 'Rainbow' logo and in fact he still makes them by hand to order. I recently had a matching Stereo Humbucker made to match an early 80s one I acquired on here. He had to dig out the resin-casting mould from his storage container to match it and he was full of apologies that he couldn't 100% match the resin (H&S, environmental stuff) but its a pretty much exact replica (overwound for the bridge).

If you pop them out, they will have little labels on the bottom with handwritten code on them. Kent (or his son Aaron, who is based in the UK) is very cool about decoding this, if you are interested. Fantastic pickups!

http://www.armstrongpickups.co.uk/

VERY cool guitar - do you know who it was made for?

Cheers @impmann @OilCityPickups - once I start dismantling the guitar, I’ll update the thread accordingly.

No idea about its history - the pic of Peter Cook is from the (1980) Sounds Book of the Electric Guitar:

https://i.imgur.com/kWmNRgU.jpg