Crybaby Wah by Thomas International Corp.Chicago

[goldtop1]

Hi fellows, I have this older Wah pedal and I am trying to date code it. Maybe ya'll can help me out with this. This is what I have found. CryBaby Model 95-910511
Ser. number on back is 2078991
100K pot is allen Bradley with a code number 024-005318-03
ITW .22 cap with a code on top 20-8466-1
stack of dimes with light brown plastic cover
wires tied with wax dental floss
That's all I have it all looks original.
Hope anyone can help.

[alerich]

I have three Thomas Organ Cry baby pedals.

Sepulveda, California    S/N 1919035    Near Mint
Chicago, Illinois             S/N 2073557    Very Good to Excellent
Chicago, Illinois             S/N 2078586    My daily player for 15 years (and looks it).

I bought the first one on eBay. I bought the second one locally on Craigslist. I bought the third pedal new from a music store in Jonesboro, Georgia in 1982, if memory serves. So, if your bottom plate is original then that would make it at least a 1982 or later as it is 400 units later.

As an aside, I built a wah pedal kit from Mammoth Electronics called the Weeping Willow Wah. Mammoth is still around but I don't think the WW kit is available any longer. Ordered it with a Bomber Orange case. I have A/B'd the WW side by side with my Cry Baby pedals and it sounds just as nice. My WW is on my pedal board and the Cry Baby pedals are in storage.

[Bantam]

Still have my chrome top 68 or so.... 1st pedal I ever bought,  at 13years old (born in '61)...a couple years back I came across a rare logo on top cry baby in a old pedal steel players pedalboard put together by Old Valley Arts that he was selling. He had incredibly good pedals and I think I bought the whole thing for $300.     The logo on top just barely edged out my Chrome top because it was a little easier to warble fast.

I sold it for $900 really quickly on reverb.com. that is to say when I put it up for sale it sold quickly but I played it for a couple years first and really feel in love with it and actually regret selling it but I guess but I guess that's dumb because it's such a simple circuit with available parts as was just said above... But you do have to love the oldies because the casing is so light like aluminum or pot metal or something and what I've noticed most from farting around with a lot with those is the real old ones pots go down to like 2 ohms and up to anywhere from 89 to 135 k