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Year of manufacture of 1-18-B Kustom bass cabinet? [message #8036]

Mon, 15 January 2007 12:02

BassPlayer
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Registered: January 2007

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Hi, I'm new to this forum, but I have been interested in old school Kustom amps since the late 1960s, about 68 through 71, when we were playing gigs in a local band. After looking at the cover of Cosmos Factory CCR, I began realizing that these amps had a certain tone and power that was necessary. Now, close to 40 years later, I have a small collection of early Kustom 200 PA systems, some 100 heads, a couple of 200 watt base heads, and recently I acquired a 1-18-B Kustom cabinet. It is so heavy that you cannot even lift it off the ground. Right now I am in the process of taking off the back cover to see what's inside. (Maybe there is cement in there!) Plugged into a 200 watt bass Cascade color head, it sounds awesome. I would like to know what year the 1-18-B came out, which now I reliaze by looking at this website was part of a 2-speaker column setup with a high-powered head and some type of module to boost power? Any information would be appreciated. The amp I have is black in color, which seems to be more common than the other sparkle colors.
P.S. In 1969, we went to see a professional band that had all custom amps, but they were the 400 series, charcoal gray, and they actually blew the place up, it was so loud!

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		Year of manufacture of 1-18-B Kustom bass cabinet? By: BassPlayer on Mon, 15 January 2007 12:02
		Re: Year of manufacture of 1-18-B Kustom bass cabinet? By: stevem on Mon, 15 January 2007 12:54
		Re: Year of manufacture of 1-18-B Kustom bass cabinet? By: stevem on Tue, 16 January 2007 12:30
		Re: Year of manufacture of 1-18-B Kustom bass cabinet? By: BassPlayer on Tue, 16 January 2007 14:17
		Info on Kustom 1-18B folded horn bass cabinet By: LesS on Tue, 16 January 2007 21:34
		Re: Year of manufacture of 1-18-B Kustom bass cabinet? By: terryweasely on Wed, 02 February 2011 12:09
		Re: Year of manufacture of 1-18-B Kustom bass cabinet? By: sunnhead on Wed, 02 February 2011 23:49

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