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product_id: 266012987
title: "Dunlop DHCN1150 Heavier Core 11-50 Electric Guitar Strings"
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price: "NT$821"
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reviews_count: 5
category: "Jim Dunlop"
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# Heavier core for dropped tunings Triple moisture protection Made in USA precision Dunlop DHCN1150 Heavier Core 11-50 Electric Guitar Strings

**Brand:** jim dunlop
**Price:** NT$821
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Summary

> 🎶 Drop the tension, not the tone — play heavier, play fresher!

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** Dunlop DHCN1150 Heavier Core 11-50 Electric Guitar Strings by jim dunlop
- **How much does it cost?** NT$821 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
- **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.tw](https://www.desertcart.tw/products/266012987-dunlop-dhcn1150-heavier-core-11-50-electric-guitar-strings)

## Best For

- jim dunlop enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted jim dunlop brand quality
- Free international shipping included
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- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Key Features

- • **Balanced Tonal Spectrum:** Smooth highs, focused mids, and defined lows deliver versatile sound across genres.
- • **Heavier Core Design 🎸:** Optimized for dropped and lowered tunings without sacrificing tension or tone.
- • **Quick Break-In & Long Life:** Proprietary core-to-wrap ratio means faster playability and extended string lifespan.
- • **VCI Fresh Technology Sealed 🛡️:** Triple-layer moisture protection ensures strings arrive fresh and corrosion-free.
- • **Crafted in Benicia, California 🇺🇸:** Premium USA-made strings for unmatched quality and consistency.

## Overview

Dunlop DHCN1150 Heavier Core 11-50 electric guitar strings are precision-engineered in a climate-controlled USA facility. Featuring a proprietary core-to-wrap ratio and innovative hybrid wrapping, these nickel steel strings deliver balanced tone with smooth highs, focused mids, and tight lows. Sealed in VCI Fresh Technology bags, they resist corrosion and maintain freshness. Designed specifically for dropped tunings, they offer normal tension with heavier cores, enabling players to dig in deeply without losing tonal clarity or feel.

## Description

Product Description Dunlop electric guitar strings are made with great pride in Benicia, California and offer a unique recipe of smooth highs, focused mids and defined lows. Utilizing only the finest materials in combination with our propriety core to wrap ratio, Dunlop Strings offer players a quick break-in period, long life and a balanced string-to-string response that allow you to move across the fingerboard with incredible precision and tone. Whether your style is Blues, Country, Jazz, Metal, Rock or R&B, playing Dunlop will change the way you FEEL about strings. Every set of Dunlop Strings come packaged utilizing three levels of moisture protection and sealed in a VCI Fresh Technology (Vapor Corrosion Inhibitor) bag to guarantee that your strings arrive as fresh as the day they were made. Dunlop Heavy Core® electric guitar strings are made with great pride in Benicia, California and specially designed for the player that plays in dropped or lowered tunings. Heavy Core strings incorporate a unique core wire and proprietary wrap ratios to offer players the ability to really "dig in" while retaining a tight low end, focused midrange and smooth top-end when playing clean or distorted. Set Contains: 1 x Dunlop DHCN1150 Electric guitar strings Heavier Core 11-50

Review: I was just going for whatever the least expensive strings I could find, and these turned out to be really quite good! I usually use D'Addarios and occasionally Ernie Balls, but these have been a very pleasant surprise.
Review: Just like their other brethren in Jim Dunlop's family of nickel-plated steel strings, this set provides a thrilling balance of brilliance and warmth across your guitar's pickups while feeling eminently comfortable to the fingers of your fretting hand. They have a slinkiness not attained with Ernie Ball Extra Slinky strings (which are also top-notch contenders in the teeny strings with big sound arena) and barely surpassed by Reverend Willy's Mexican Lottery Brand extra-light strings. With these strings and just the bridge pickup of an Epiphone LP-100 and an amPlug "Metal" headphone amp, all sorts of classic rock and classic metal guitar tones were closely approximated (talent and anything pleasant sounding with those tones were not - you'd need a guitarist for that). Noticed some things with these strings as I had switched back to the teeny tiny wires from the likes of Dunlop Heavy Core "Heaviest," GHS GB-LOW Boomers, and Fender 250JM strings: *On the higher frets of the guitar, tiny strings increase the amount of available space for playing compared to regular strings. *A much lighter touch or a fairly lighter touch and higher action are needed to play these strings without them buzzing out on the frets. Coming to these straight from GHS GB-LOW Boomers with both in E standard tuning included a bit of a learning curve. At the same time, articulating more than 5th root "power" chords is so much easier, so the pick hand needed taming while the fret hand received some liberation. *There's less output and sustain with tiny strings compared to regular strings and that difference comes through the amp. Compared to Dunlop DEN0838, Fender 250JM strings on the same guitar with the same tuning sound much "hotter," brighter, and louder at the same setting - like getting a pickup upgrade for $3.99 and some tendon-wear. After having seen how many people yap about sustain while simultaneously putting a hair scrunchy on their guitar to cut down on superfluous string noise, I think the slight loss in sustain is overrated. As for the loss of volume, I found there is at least one potentiometer on the amp that can be used to readjust the volume and it works well. All-in-all, if you like the heavy tones of classic metal and classic rock guitar without leaving the comfort zone of E standard tuning or Eb standard tuning, like practicing chords only you, Allan Holdsworth, and Stanley Jordan can name out loud (you, the reader - not me), or enjoy bending every note from its root to its augmented 5th without bleeding, these are great strings. If you enjoy luscious feeling strings with a bit of warmth to offset their brightness and produce pinch harmonics like they're trying to earn a medal, these and any other Jim Dunlop nickel-plated steel string set are the fun way to do it. I like the Rev Willy Extra-Light strings a touch better, but when these are a lower price (fluctuates daily), they're the better buy.

## Features

- Manufactured In Dunlop's climate controlled manufacturing facility in Benicia, California USA
- Sealed in a VCI fresh technology (vapor corrosion inhibitor) bag
- Innovative hybrid wrapping techniques and custom core-to-wrap ratios produce superior low-tension string
- Designed with heavier cores for normal tension at dropped tunings
- Dig in while retaining sound and fundamentals

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B003E0Y08Q |
| Body Material | Nickel Steel |
| Color Name | Heavy Core |
| Country Produced In | USA |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars (528) |
| Date First Available | 6 August 2012 |
| Item Weight | 3.2 g |
| Item model number | DHCN1150 |
| Material Type | Nickel Steel |
| Musical Style | rock |
| Number of Strings | 6 |
| Product Dimensions | 11.43 x 0.25 x 11.43 cm; 3.2 g |
| Size | Heavier ( 11 - 50 ) |
| String Gauge | .011 |
| String Material | Nickel |

## Product Details

- **Brand:** Jim Dunlop
- **Colour:** Heavy Core
- **Instrument:** Electric Guitar
- **String gauge:** .011
- **String material type:** Nickel

## Images

![Dunlop DHCN1150 Heavier Core 11-50 Electric Guitar Strings - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71woreikcQL.jpg)

## Available Options

This product comes in different **Color, Size, Style** options.

## Questions & Answers

**Q: Would this be good for dropped octave tuning? Can the strings handle it?**
A: Yes, I tune down to B on a six string and have played as low as A.   These strings are made for down tuning as they remain detailed and crisp due to the strength of the fundamental,  I don't like to use these unless I'm down tuning because of how detailed they are

**Q: How is standard tuning or e flat with these strings?**
A: heavy gauge with lowered tuneing sound sweet. but u want ypur guitar intonnated to a tuneing u plan kn playing the most or it will suck

**Q: Can these be use on acustic**
A: I guess it's possible, but why would you want to put these on an acoustic? Also it may not be possible to down-tune with that setup; I think acoustics have heavier strings in general so these would just be a little fat instead of extra heavy.Great strings for the price, however.

**Q: Are these good to us on a Les Paul?**
A: Ya they would be good on any guitar, but you'll have to match the string size on it or do a new setup.

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
*by O***R on 20 October 2021*

I was just going for whatever the least expensive strings I could find, and these turned out to be really quite good! I usually use D'Addarios and occasionally Ernie Balls, but these have been a very pleasant surprise.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
*by T***N on 20 November 2013*

Just like their other brethren in Jim Dunlop's family of nickel-plated steel strings, this set provides a thrilling balance of brilliance and warmth across your guitar's pickups while feeling eminently comfortable to the fingers of your fretting hand. They have a slinkiness not attained with Ernie Ball Extra Slinky strings (which are also top-notch contenders in the teeny strings with big sound arena) and barely surpassed by Reverend Willy's Mexican Lottery Brand extra-light strings. With these strings and just the bridge pickup of an Epiphone LP-100 and an amPlug "Metal" headphone amp, all sorts of classic rock and classic metal guitar tones were closely approximated (talent and anything pleasant sounding with those tones were not - you'd need a guitarist for that). Noticed some things with these strings as I had switched back to the teeny tiny wires from the likes of Dunlop Heavy Core "Heaviest," GHS GB-LOW Boomers, and Fender 250JM strings: *On the higher frets of the guitar, tiny strings increase the amount of available space for playing compared to regular strings. *A much lighter touch or a fairly lighter touch and higher action are needed to play these strings without them buzzing out on the frets. Coming to these straight from GHS GB-LOW Boomers with both in E standard tuning included a bit of a learning curve. At the same time, articulating more than 5th root "power" chords is so much easier, so the pick hand needed taming while the fret hand received some liberation. *There's less output and sustain with tiny strings compared to regular strings and that difference comes through the amp. Compared to Dunlop DEN0838, Fender 250JM strings on the same guitar with the same tuning sound much "hotter," brighter, and louder at the same setting - like getting a pickup upgrade for $3.99 and some tendon-wear. After having seen how many people yap about sustain while simultaneously putting a hair scrunchy on their guitar to cut down on superfluous string noise, I think the slight loss in sustain is overrated. As for the loss of volume, I found there is at least one potentiometer on the amp that can be used to readjust the volume and it works well. All-in-all, if you like the heavy tones of classic metal and classic rock guitar without leaving the comfort zone of E standard tuning or Eb standard tuning, like practicing chords only you, Allan Holdsworth, and Stanley Jordan can name out loud (you, the reader - not me), or enjoy bending every note from its root to its augmented 5th without bleeding, these are great strings. If you enjoy luscious feeling strings with a bit of warmth to offset their brightness and produce pinch harmonics like they're trying to earn a medal, these and any other Jim Dunlop nickel-plated steel string set are the fun way to do it. I like the Rev Willy Extra-Light strings a touch better, but when these are a lower price (fluctuates daily), they're the better buy.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
*by J***N on 18 January 2021*

I don’t haven’t had any of the issues that other reviewers have encountered. These string (11-50 heavy core) are awesome. I use them on 2 les pauls that I set up for D standard/drop C. Obviously personal preference is a factor, but using these for any tuning higher than that would make the strings either tight AF, and/or force overly high action. It should be noted that I was buying these locally until they stopped carrying them, But I’ve bought 3 sets on here and no problems. I had similar issues with ghs boomers that I got from here. Showed up with a nice kink in the middle of every string, so I don’t doubt the other reviews, just sharing my experience thus far.

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