Carl.B Posted September 25, 2018 Posted September 25, 2018 I don't need an amp this big or this loud but it is kind of cool looking even if I never really use it. I think the old Kustom tuck n roll just look cool. https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/870254876512513
RobB Posted September 25, 2018 Posted September 25, 2018 Looks, "cool." Sounds dildos. Don't move on this fool's errand. Save your money, dude.
Carl.B Posted September 25, 2018 Author Posted September 25, 2018 Well I am at least going to go look and listen to it tomorrow night. I won't be able to do much except strum a few chords. Still wearing a brace on my right arm and the dexterity and strength in my fingers is such I can't really hold a pick. He's asking $360 so I may haggle if everything is in good shape and depending on what speakers are in the cab. I have read on the interwebs about pulling the gut's out of the head and putting a Marshall/Fender clone amp inside.
RobB Posted September 25, 2018 Posted September 25, 2018 32 minutes ago, Carl.B said: I have read on the interwebs about pulling the gut's out of the head and putting a Marshall/Fender clone amp inside. Throwing good money after bad, eh? There goes any, "vintage value" the amp might have. Why would you go to the trouble of buying a primitive rig like a Kustom and drop a few more hundred dollars making it into a tube amp? I'd offer $300 and feature that cushioned sarcophagus as a, "curio", in your music room. Just sayin'.
killerteddybear Posted September 25, 2018 Posted September 25, 2018 2 hours ago, gtrdaddy said: What, exactly does a dildo sound like? Pray tell. Squishy, on occasion. Hey, you asked!
gorch Posted September 25, 2018 Posted September 25, 2018 3 hours ago, RobB said: Looks, "cool." Sounds dildos. 3 hours ago, gtrdaddy said: What, exactly does a dildo sound like? Pray tell. Stick to it!
HamerDave Posted September 25, 2018 Posted September 25, 2018 I would not on a plane. I would not on a train. I would not if it were blue. I would not, nor should you....
Never2Late Posted September 25, 2018 Posted September 25, 2018 I dig the 'look' of the blue-sparkle amps. I heard a pair of PA speakers from them - tall/skinny 10" speaker boxes. Sounded fine, not sure what was driving them. If you gut the head, and need the enclosure for a better homebuilt amp, go for it. I'd update those cones, though. I thought Kustom had re-issued their stuff in the early 2000s?
Willie G. Moseley Posted September 25, 2018 Posted September 25, 2018 Hartley Peavey once described the sound of a Kustom amp being turned on (pushing that big square power button, which was illuminated, IIRC) as "KA-POOK! Ssssssss..." The teal-colored Kustom I ran thru had a 15" spkr. and a horn. It can be seen in the '74 photo below between the drummer and me (and these pics have been published here before so 'scuse the redundancy but the previous posts were about the instruments). Also had a teal Kustom 4 X 10 at one point. Bassist had a two-cab black Kustom "rig", to the left in this second photo, in which he's playing sax while I'm playing his fretless Ampeg/Dan Armstrong. Also from 1974.
RobB Posted September 25, 2018 Posted September 25, 2018 1 hour ago, gtrdaddy said: Kind of a funny thing isn’t it? Standel, Kay, Vox, Peavey, Kustom & others, all in the ‘60s using the latest technology to produce these amps and guitarists call them primitive, yet we are all using tube technology from 1907. How ironic. Yes. How very ironic. Drowning in a sea of irony ovah heah.
Steve Haynie Posted September 25, 2018 Posted September 25, 2018 The look is cool. The sound is not. Newer Kustom amps sound good, and they have just enough of the upholstery look to acknowledge the past. These are worth having.
cynic Posted September 25, 2018 Posted September 25, 2018 3 hours ago, Willie G. Moseley said: Your hat's been making a comeback in the news lately.
Willie G. Moseley Posted September 25, 2018 Posted September 25, 2018 ^^^^That's actually a well-worn Alabama Crimson Tide hat w/ patches...
tbonesullivan Posted September 25, 2018 Posted September 25, 2018 Well. at least if you drop it on yourself, you won't feel as much pain. If only they had spent as much time thinking about their sound as they did about their looks and "soft" upholstery.
EricS Posted September 25, 2018 Posted September 25, 2018 My first bass amp was a blue Kustom 200 with 2x15. I don’t miss it at all!
Steve Haynie Posted September 25, 2018 Posted September 25, 2018 I remember getting clean sounds, sterile sounds, and the anemic gain. To me the sound of an old Kustom amp was much like what you got plugging your guitar into the mic input of the record player console that your parents bought at a furniture store.
Carl.B Posted September 26, 2018 Author Posted September 26, 2018 Well I went and I saw it and even played thru it tho not very loud as lady wouldn't let me turn it up even to a reasonable level. It was in great condition only one small hole in it anywhere. I kind of had already talked myself out it before I got there. It didn't sound bad no hissing, buzzing just old 80's solid state clean sound. I must admit wrap the power chord around your worst enemy and throw it head off a bridge and the body will never be found it was that heavy. I do wonder what that cab would sound like with a Tech 21 power engine or a good tube head pushing those speakers. I decided against it just for the shear size of it and sometimes you have get over your nostalgic gas.
Carl.B Posted September 26, 2018 Author Posted September 26, 2018 10 minutes ago, gtrdaddy said: Well aren’t you just a big tease! Yes I am! 😎 Sometimes GAS and reality collide. At the moment I am down to one good arm and I have passed on a few guitars because of it.
Jakeboy Posted September 26, 2018 Posted September 26, 2018 On 9/24/2018 at 10:15 PM, RobB said: Looks, "cool." Sounds dildos. Don't move on this fool's errand. Save your money, dude. Sounds Dildos...... There’s a band name that I’m sure hasn’t been taken yet....
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