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Hello, fellow Kustom players! [message #8087]

Mon, 22 January 2007 22:49

KustomPlayer
Messages: 4
Registered: January 2007
Location: Fairfax, VA

Junior Member

I'm a brand-new Kustom owner. I picked up a K200B1 and 3x15 cabinet off Craigslist while looking for a larger cabinet to compliment my Laney B2 2x10. I play rock on a Fender '51 Precision reissue with a Seymour Duncan high-output pickup, upgraded bridge and Thomastic flatwounds.

So for $275, I got the much abused head and cabinet. Supposedly the rig had been toured in 45 of 50 states. The head is supposedly a 1972 model, serial number 70,981. The bottom speaker sounded blown, which got me a $50 discount, and after pulling the back of the cabinet off, I find all three cones stamped with "1503 G3". The one blown speaker has a totally rotted surround. A Google search turned this up as a 1963 model CTS driver (the magnet is stamped "137 7117" (CTS), and the input jack on the cabinet is stamped CTS) on an eBay listing, but the seller there could be wrong, too. Cabinet serial number is 24,483. Seller said the cabinet was re-coned years ago, but immediately offered the $50 concession when I noticed the speaker didn't sound right. All cones stamped 1963? All original, I bet. Oddly, the top two speakers seem to be in great shape. I found a guitar signal cable and small tube of KY at the bottom of the cabinet upon pulling the back off. If this Kustom could talk!

This rig sounds awesome, a true tone-monster, even with a cone-rotted driver. I'm not sure whether to recone the one driver or replace all three with other drivers. I've read many posts on this board about the different drivers available. Maybe Weber Chicago 15s? Eminence Delta 16 ohm? I had my eye on Jensen Mod 15-120 for another project. TS parameters are similar to the Delta 15B.

Glad to be Kustom owner!

Kustom K200B1 and 3x15 cabinet
Laney B2 2x10 bass amp (1500W RMS)
Fender '51 Reissue
1976 Ford F100 pickup 300ci/4spd

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		Hello, fellow Kustom players! By: KustomPlayer on Mon, 22 January 2007 22:49
		Re: Hello, fellow Kustom players! By: LesS on Tue, 23 January 2007 08:45
		Re: Hello, fellow Kustom players! By: stevem on Tue, 23 January 2007 12:46
		Re: Hello, fellow Kustom players! By: KustomPlayer on Tue, 23 January 2007 22:44
		Re: Hello, fellow Kustom players! By: stevem on Wed, 24 January 2007 06:30
		Re: Hello, fellow Kustom players! By: KustomPlayer on Wed, 24 January 2007 09:41
		Re: Hello, fellow Kustom players! By: C4ster on Wed, 24 January 2007 10:45
		Re: Hello, fellow Kustom players! By: BC on Thu, 25 January 2007 11:35
		Re: Hello, fellow Kustom players! By: KustomPlayer on Thu, 25 January 2007 13:16
		Re: Hello, fellow Kustom players! By: daveobergoenner@gmail.com on Mon, 29 January 2007 16:18

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