VintageKustom.com: Comment Board » LotzTone Amp on eBay

Wed, 07 May 2008 15:25

chicagobill
Messages: 2005
Registered: April 2003

Senior Member

Check out eBay item number 220228756446, for the LotzTone amp head. It is one of the original heads made by Bud Ross and Gene Myers, just before the Kustom name was put into use.

It looks like it is an all Germanium transistor version of a Frankenstein head. The case and front panel are of the same layout as the Franks, and the internal mountings of the circuit boards, etc. are very similar. I'm only guessing here, but based on the output transistors on the back panel this was probably at most, a 30 watt amp.

This also explains the "Ross and Myers" front panels on the early Frank heads.

"Pleat" was the winner here. Is this the same pleat that posts here on the board? If it is, I'd love to see/know more about this piece of Kustom history.

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