Best capo for a Guild jumbo...?

[killdeer43]

I've voted before and I'll weigh in again, with something I don't think has been mentioned. :?:

My vote is....SHUBB for 6 & 12 strings.

The new wrinkle is how clean a Shubb looks on the neck, as opposed to a Kyser, for instance. I like Kysers just fine but they do stick out like that proverbial sore thumb.
You can hardly see the unique mechanism that makes a Shubb work as well as it does, up and down the neck, but it's working.

MTC, :wink:
Joe

 

[wileypickett]

Shubbs are my main brand too.

I make my own partial capos, so I've tried about every brand there is. (I've been taking hacksaws to capos for 25 years and have dozens. Some cover two strings, some three strings, some four strings, etc.)

For 12-strings capos, whatever the brand, I cut a strip from 1/16" thick mouse-pad -- these things are cheap and everywhere! -- and Krazy Glue the cloth side to the rubber part of the capo that comes in contact with the strings.

The smooshiness of the mouse-pad material means you don't have to apply as much pressure to the capo to get all the strings to sound clearly, which means the going-out-tune problems one encounters with a 12-string -- where the capo has to depress the thick and thin strings next to one another -- isn't as pronounced.

Glenn//.