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Re: To Restore or Not To Restore [message #9411 is a reply to message #9402]

Mon, 14 April 2008 16:56

Optyk
Messages: 125
Registered: August 2006
Location: Texas

Senior Member

I have the same quandary down here in Texas. I have a 3 -15's cab in black. And a K200b-5 head in blue. Neither are in horrendous condition. If I were to redo one of them, it'd be the speaker cab.

Here's the real quandary, though. Should I just do both and change the color to something else. In 1967 when I first discovered Kustom, I thought the white was just spectacular. As I grew older, the charcoal became my favorite. For some reason, I've never been crazy about the cascade.

But, as I've been giving thought about redoing one or both, I've discovered a couple other colors of the Zodiac Naugahyde. For some reason, I just think my beard, wide shoulders and hairy chest would just clash too much with the hot pink, so that one really isn't an option. The Fuschia might be an option though. Someone had a K200 head last week on Ebay that was done in that color and man did it look sharp. Unique, of course, since that isn't a bonafide Kustom color, no amps were ever made with it. That unit on Ebay brought $400 just for the K200 head. That's nearly double what a standard color K200 can be found on Ebay for.

So, in that instance, redoing one in a non-standard color payed off. I would have kept the head and redone a cab to match.

So, what would you do if you were me? Keep what I have? recover one of them? which one? recover them both? standard color or the fuschia?

Enquiring minds want to know. . . .

There's only two kinds of music. . . . blues and zippity doo dah.

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