Amigorick Messages: 6 Registered: January 2011 Location: US
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I have a Kustom Tuck and Roll Bass Amp that I am trying to find more information about. I have included some pics. Any help / info would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks !!!
Kustom_Bart Messages: 601 Registered: October 2010 Location: Greenville, MichiGUN
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What you have is a 1971 or newer (what we call a slant face or metal face)Kustom K250-1 head in Silver with matching 2 x 15 cabinet that has two 8-16 ohm KEI (Kustom Electronics Inc) speakers. The cabinet should be about 6 ohm total load. This is a good bass amp and will work good as a guitar amp too. As it will take a multi effect pedal plugged into the front of it very well.
Your link doesn't work like you have it, I had to drag and drop it into my search bar so I fixed it for you.
Kustom_Bart Messages: 601 Registered: October 2010 Location: Greenville, MichiGUN
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It is all about color and condition, if it has rips, tears, ciggy burns, discoloration on the top or anywhere else, that all takes away from the value, ciggy burns and discoloration are the worst as they cannot be repaired.
With that said, it is worth whatever someone is willing to pay. If you want to offer it up for sale, you need pics of the top of both items and all sides so they can be blown up and looked over for cuts, tears, burns, and discoloration. With the pics that you have it is really hard to tell exactly what condition it is in over all. It appears to have discoloration on the top of the head and maybe a ciggy burn or two, but that could be something else laying on it that is why a top shot and all 4 sides is important.
If you take better pics, post a link to them and guys here will be able to possibly give you a better idea.
Amigorick Messages: 6 Registered: January 2011 Location: US
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I will try and take some more pics. You are correct, the amp has a couple of cig burns on it. If it had been mine then it would have never even had an ash tray on it !!! I have had it for about 10 years. I bought it from a guy for $200. I was going to start at about $450. It works great ! About a year after I bought it, one of the surrounds on one of the speakers started deteriorating and I chose to send it off and have it repaired instead of putting an aftermarket driver in. I wanted to keep it as original as possible.
sunnhead Messages: 221 Registered: June 2010 Location: Minnesota
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keeping it original is a good idea. $200 was a great deal. If the speakers are not really good, and need to be reconed, I would sell it more at the $300 range, just because the speakers will need to be fixed, and bad speakers really mean that rig is paralyzed! Silver is one of the more desired colors, but as Bart said, condition is a big factor. Start it at what ever price, you can always negotiate.
Amigorick Messages: 6 Registered: January 2011 Location: US
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The whole thing works great !! I have already had the speaker surround repaired and have used it many times since. It does have a couple of small tears at one or two of the corners. It also has a couple of cig burns on the top of the amp. I don't understand how anyone could want to put a lit cig on it !!!
Kustom_Bart Messages: 601 Registered: October 2010 Location: Greenville, MichiGUN
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Cigs hold nicely right between the tuck and roll and your cig won't roll off onto the floor, that is why guys used to do it. I guess maybe they thought it would give it patina when it was old...boy were they wrong! I had one that had about 25 places where it was burned, it was black so it didn't show nearly as bad, but still they were there and you can't repair them and they are an eye sore for sure. Your rips and tears, if material is still there, you can fix them up so they aren't so bad and make some so they never show if you know what you are doing.
I would start at 400.00 here on the forum and offer it up and someone in your area here on the forum may want it and you can always deal from there. Where are you located?
Kustom_Bart Messages: 601 Registered: October 2010 Location: Greenville, MichiGUN
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Post it on the classifieds here before you post it elsewhere and you may sell it to someone local from the forum. If you need help with posting pics, just click the little box above where you type when writing a post it has a globe with a paper clip in it and that will open a pop up box for you to paste your link into.