Jim Dunlop founded the Jim Dunlop Company in 1965 as a part-time business while working as a processing and chemical engineer at Barr and Stroud in Glasgow. He was an apprentice of creator of the first hip replacement, William “Bill” Wallace. His first product was the Vibra-Tuner, a small device that attached to a guitar with a suction cup and displayed whether the guitar was in tune with the vibration of a small reed.
While visiting music stores to sell his new product, someone told him that musicians needed a good capo, remarking that anyone who made a good capo that could handle a 12-string guitar would make a lot of money. Using his engineering background, Dunlop created the toggle capo, and then worked with a local machine shop to build the first capo dies, manufacturing what eventually became the long running “1100 series” capo.
Starting from his living room, Dunlop later moved construction to his garage, and then to a location outside the house.
On March 19, 1972, he moved into the pick market, after reading every issue of Guitar Player magazine and noting musicians’ comments concerning what they liked and didn’t like about picks. He made his first picks from nylon, and continues to produce these.
Also in 1972, Dunlop left his job at Dymo Industries to focus on his own company full-time. He moved his family to Benicia, California and set up shop in Benicia Industrial Park. A few years later, he outgrew that building and moved to Industrial Way.
Dunlop products now range from capos and picks to slides, strings, fret wire, strap retainers, and a variety of electronic effects, including the original Cry Baby wah-wah pedal, the Uni-Vibe phaser, Heil Talk Box, and the MXR and Way Huge lines of stompboxes.
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Out of stockThis Cry Baby Wah features the legendary Fasel Inductor and two distinct selectable voices—"Deep" for a big and throaty sound and "BG" for Buddy's bell-like tone.
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Out of stockThis Cry Baby Wah combines convenient auto-return switching with circuitry specifically optimized to keep your low end fundamental intact.
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Out of stockPre-order for June release! A collaboration with Daredevil Pedals proprietor and pedal builder Johnny Wator, this Cry Baby Wah combines the bright, aggressive vocality of a modded Cry Baby Wah with a custom fuzz circuit that’s downright gnarly.
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Out of stockThis Cry Baby Wah is voiced by a vintage-style Halo Inductor for added harmonic content and growl, with an internal switch for true bypass/non-true bypass operation.
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Out of stockThis custom Cry Baby Wah combines three of Justin Chancellor's favorite ways to explore tones and craft soundscapes—filter, wah, and fuzz.
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The CAE Wah allows you to switch between two distinctly-voiced Fasel® Inductors with a built-in Boost/Line Driver circuit, internal Q and gain controls, and bright status LEDs on each side of the pedal. This pedal can be powered by a 9-volt battery, a Dunlop ECB003 9-volt adapter, or the DC Brick™, Iso-Brick™, and Mini Iso-Brick™ power supplies (not included).
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Gauges: 11, 14, 19, 34, 44, 56 Electric - Nickel Wound - Med / Extra Heavy - 6-String Set
These nickel wound strings deliver crisp highs, aggressive mids, and a focused low end for dynamic lead work and chords that ring out clearly whether clean or heavily distorted. Optimized for Drop B tuning for downtuners.