My Kustom rig!
Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 9:31 pm
Just arrived!
I've been wanting the bass version (K200D) for a while, my favourite looking bass:
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Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 10:15 pm
That is niceee! How does it play and sound?
I've been wanting the bass version (K200D) for a while, my favourite looking bass:
I've been wanting the bass version (K200D) for a while, my favourite looking bass:
Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 10:20 pm
That, sir, is one fine looking guitar. Please let me know when you are going to be away from the house for a while...
Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 10:44 pm
That is very cool. I love the inlays.
Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 12:14 am
shit IS HOTTTTTTTX
Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 12:32 am
Thanks guys! It's pretty cool. It has a semi hollow maple body like a Rickenbacker,DeArmond pickups like a Gretsch and a super thin neck like a Mosrite.Sounds really nice through the Kustom amp. kinda dreamy with trem-vib and reverb turned up.
Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 12:36 am
DEMO!!
pwease!
looks so goooooood man
pwease!
looks so goooooood man
Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 4:07 am
That guitar looks awesome! I've never seen these before!
Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 7:13 am
I guess they only made these for a short time(67-69?).
This is from Mike Wright's Guitar Stories Vol 1:
""The idea for a Kustom guitar began in 1966, when Ross and some other local guitarists got
together a design for an electric guitar.At that time there was a guitar manufacturing factory just starting up in Neodesha Kansas.
According to Ross, he approached the Neodesha factory with the Kustom design and they agreed
to produce them, with Kustom marketing the guitars under the Kustom name.
According to Ross,this plant did indeed produce some of the guitars he'd designed, but instead of delivering them to
Kustom, the guitars were sold to Wurlitzer and bore the Wurlitzer logo. Wurlitzer did, in fact,
market solid-body electric guitars manufactured by the Neodesha factory, although whether or not
the styles most frequently found are the ones designed by Bud Ross and friends is uncertain.
Needless to say, Ross was bummed out and he forgot about guitars. Until, that is, one day in
1967 when one Doyle Reeding came knocking at his door.
Reeding had been a local woodworking teacher who quit teaching to work over in Neodesha at the guitar factory. for one
reason or another, Reeding and the guitar factory had parted company. reeding had some ideas
for a guitar and wanted to make them for Ross. At about this time the Neodesha facotry went out
of business, but the chronology here has become a little fuzzy with the passing of time.
In any case, Reeding moved to Chanute in the fall of '67 and he and Ross set up the guitar making
factory. Another woodworking teacher was hired, Wesley Valorie, and the three (well, mostly
Reeding and Valorie) set about designing and making Kustom guitars.
Kustom guitars, with a design completely different from the Wurlitzer model, debuted in the summer of 1968. they were
semi-hollow bodies made of four pieces of wood. Two were glued together and hollowed out,
making a front, another two a back, and then glued together to complete the guitar. the thin fast
necks were bolted on and had a curved truss rod design. Pickups were DeArmonds, vibratos by
Bigsby. Input for the design was provided by none other than country guitar wizard Roy Clark,
who several years previously had listened to Ross' amplifiers and who later became a Kustom
amp endorser.
It's easy to see why someone would think that either Rickenbacker or Moseley had
something to do with these guitars. The body, with its single cats-eye sound hole, has a very Rick
look to it, and the neck, skinny two piece maple with zero fret, could easily seem like a Mosrite.
Even the knobs look Ricky. However, these were the original (wherever they got their inspiration)
and hail from Kansas."
This is from Mike Wright's Guitar Stories Vol 1:
""The idea for a Kustom guitar began in 1966, when Ross and some other local guitarists got
together a design for an electric guitar.At that time there was a guitar manufacturing factory just starting up in Neodesha Kansas.
According to Ross, he approached the Neodesha factory with the Kustom design and they agreed
to produce them, with Kustom marketing the guitars under the Kustom name.
According to Ross,this plant did indeed produce some of the guitars he'd designed, but instead of delivering them to
Kustom, the guitars were sold to Wurlitzer and bore the Wurlitzer logo. Wurlitzer did, in fact,
market solid-body electric guitars manufactured by the Neodesha factory, although whether or not
the styles most frequently found are the ones designed by Bud Ross and friends is uncertain.
Needless to say, Ross was bummed out and he forgot about guitars. Until, that is, one day in
1967 when one Doyle Reeding came knocking at his door.
Reeding had been a local woodworking teacher who quit teaching to work over in Neodesha at the guitar factory. for one
reason or another, Reeding and the guitar factory had parted company. reeding had some ideas
for a guitar and wanted to make them for Ross. At about this time the Neodesha facotry went out
of business, but the chronology here has become a little fuzzy with the passing of time.
In any case, Reeding moved to Chanute in the fall of '67 and he and Ross set up the guitar making
factory. Another woodworking teacher was hired, Wesley Valorie, and the three (well, mostly
Reeding and Valorie) set about designing and making Kustom guitars.
Kustom guitars, with a design completely different from the Wurlitzer model, debuted in the summer of 1968. they were
semi-hollow bodies made of four pieces of wood. Two were glued together and hollowed out,
making a front, another two a back, and then glued together to complete the guitar. the thin fast
necks were bolted on and had a curved truss rod design. Pickups were DeArmonds, vibratos by
Bigsby. Input for the design was provided by none other than country guitar wizard Roy Clark,
who several years previously had listened to Ross' amplifiers and who later became a Kustom
amp endorser.
It's easy to see why someone would think that either Rickenbacker or Moseley had
something to do with these guitars. The body, with its single cats-eye sound hole, has a very Rick
look to it, and the neck, skinny two piece maple with zero fret, could easily seem like a Mosrite.
Even the knobs look Ricky. However, these were the original (wherever they got their inspiration)
and hail from Kansas."
Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 12:50 pm
You did it! That really makes me want to finish mine. I also like that story. It's nice to know why it didn't work out for them. It wasn't the fault of the design.
Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 3:56 pm
whats the name of the guitar model?
Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 5:30 pm
Thanks guys! It is a Kustom K200A
They also made a models K200B and K200C
and a K200D bass
They also made a models K200B and K200C
and a K200D bass
Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 5:53 pm
is that the bass vampire weekend's bassist uses?DanHeron wrote:That is niceee! How does it play and sound?
I've been wanting the bass version (K200D) for a while, my favourite looking bass:
Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 5:54 pm
this guitar has been added to my list of guitars i want RI
Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 8:22 pm
which of the 10 guitars in the picturebomb you quoted are you referring to?
Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 8:23 pm
obviously, this one.
Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 12:46 am
wow that is so sexy in blue.
Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 1:05 am
Sure looks like it.Berto wrote:
is that the bass vampire weekend's bassist uses?
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Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 6:44 am
I want that bass. It looks so fucking awesome! I can't believe I have never seen these guitars before! I was wondering what that was that the vampire weekend guy was playing when I watched SNL.
Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 9:34 am
Looks a lot like the PRS mira, or the ibanez AX series.