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This is part of a series of guitar capos made from various woods: padauk, purpleheart, bloodwood, three types of mahogany, & hi-tech laminate. They have leather souls, commercial rosewood or ebony violin pegs, & nylon or gut strings. Some are inlaid with ebony or maple dots.This is the only woodworking I have sold to date. I custom-made some capos for the lutes of friends when a local flamenco group under Oscar Garcia ordered a bunch of my capos for guitars. I sold dozens of them before I saturated the market locally. These are made entirely with hand-tools. This is only because my shop is small & I'm cheap.
I'm also slow.
see:
Guitar Capo 1: [link]
Guitar Capo 2: [link]
Guitar Capo 3: [link]
Guitar Capo Insitu: [link]
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those are great! i would love to try them out. do you ship to sydney, australia?
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I have a few left, but note that they work on 'classical' (nylon-string) type guitars only: a steel-string guitar has a narrower neck & twice the tension of a nylon-string instrument.
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Ooooooooooooh.. I should get one of these for my dad! I might have to talk to you about that soon!!(:
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Nicely crafted work! I like the design, very simple.
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Gorgeous. If I played more, I might order one from you.
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You would probably only use it if you sing with your guitar. It can raise the range of a tune - to a certain extent - & you can read the same chord changes. Even I have only used them occationally, but I love making them because of the beauty of the wood.
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Beautiful range of capos, The ebony thumb screws look great, are they in tapered holes or does the pressure of the string hold them in place? Have you checked out ~music-instruments [link] you might be interested.
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I have a peg shapener & reamer so the holes are tapered & the pegs fit exactly. With 75 to 150 kg. pressure of the strings, this is necessary. The twisted gut is from old lute strings. It is more flexible than nylon, but will eventually wear out, though I haven't wore out any yet.
I'm just going to check out that link now.
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A further note. All violin pegs are factory produced. They have to be fitted & finished. They are made long, so the cut off portion makes great dot inlays - appropriate for all woodworking. I have made some pegs from scratch out of bloodwood & kingwood but that is a true labor of love, as it takes much longer than making the capo body itself. It's worth the effort to see red & purple pegs that match the capo body. Lutes - historical round-backed guitars in layman's terms - don't have standard necks so capos must be sized for the individual instrument. Also, lutes usually have very tapered necks so two capos are required: one for around the second fret & one for the fifth fret. They are rarely used, but essential under certain conditions.
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