B.C. guitar parts maker cites tariffs as major threat to operations

Forty-three years ago Dave Dunwoodie began tinkering with the bits of electric guitars, finding innovative ways to solve age-old problems, such as strings binding on traditional guitar nuts. Nuts are a small grooved material, usually bone, graphite or plastic, that sit at the top of a guitar neck and which holds the strings in place. But during an early-80s guitar solo during a gig at some Vancouver club that long ago disappeared into the fog of memory, Dunwoodie hit the tremolo bar and the stri