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Re: Kustom covers for amps and cabs! [message #7645 is a reply to message #7639]

Sat, 30 September 2006 09:29

C4ster
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Registered: June 2001
Location: Mukwonago, WI (Milwaukee...

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Just to confirm what you were thinking. A 100-200-400 series cabinet was tapered. I know that a 150 speaker is not tapered and I would suspect that a 150 head was larger at the bottom and would match the top of the speaker cabinet in dimension. Interestingly enough, the 100 and 200 heads were slightly smaller than the bottom they sat on. So you could bring it to the front and match the faces of the cab and head or push it to the rear and have a small lip on the speaker bottom. Boy, how anal retentive is that?? Laughing

There wasn't eneough room to set your beer though. Now, as far as the Frankenstein series is concerned, that was the original design of Kustom back in 1966. It lasted just a year or so and the high forhead was chopped to match the rest of the cabinets. Also, port holes were optional at that time but the cabinets were ported. In addition, the Franks and matching cabinets were only 11 pleats wide and didn't match any of the following series at all. The Frank cabinets didn't have a Kustom logo. Check the literature section and spend some time looking at the wide range of systems Kustom built. It is quite staggering.
Conrad

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