FUZZ- DANELECTRO Cool Cat Fuzz V.1 ...starting to become a collectors item

 DANELECTRO COOL CAT FUZZ CF-1 

USED between
$35.00 USD and $200.00 USD +

Ol' Dano is famous for borrowing entire circuits from defunct pedals and selling them cheap. On the Cool Cat they didn't wait. They stole the Frantone Peach Fuzz. They even painted the damn thing peach! Frantone was quite simply one person designing and making Fuzz Pedals. Fran Blanche! Fran is as feisty as they come and she 
sued. So unlike most Dano cheapies there are not thousands but there are still a few hundred Cool Cat Cf-1 or version one's left. 
Fran's pedals are killer ...every damn one!
When Electro-Harmonix started up EH after bankruptcy and moving back from Russia back to the states they gave Fran the big money to close Frantone and she became both the head designer and in charge of running all of EH. The current Big Muff referred to as the 
New York Big Muff is all her design.
Frantone pedals are only now found used 
and are heading into Klon territory for 
the prices they go for. 

THE SOUND
With the famous Rat is was all about the 
LM 308 OpAmp with the Peach it is the
LM 386 that is the 'secret sauce.'  
Both are all about dynamics. 
Substitutes do little to alter the sound but 
they definitely alter the dynamics. 
In short this Fuzz follows every nuance you 
express thru your playing. Keep in mind that
it is not unusual for a Fuzz made in the 60's to
have less then 10 parts!!! Yet they sound killer.
The exact make and manufacturer of a part 
matters.

Go 5:40 on video and check it out!

V.2 

CONCLUSION
This a already a collectors pedal to those that are early adopters.
I got mine for $50.00 USD. Seeing prices of $200.00 USD are starting to happen. 
DO NOT mistaken V.2 as V.1 check the pic below. V.2 is labeled between Cool & Cat.

NOV.4/20

I have had mine 6 months now. I still love it. This Fuzz is a keeper other pedals may come and go but not this one.