Dunlop 741 Elastic Capo/Slide Converter
In addition to its use as a standard capo, its innovative design also allows you to raise your guitar’s string action so you can play buzz free with a slide. Now, you don’t need a guitar dedicated to slide playing, simply slip on the Capo/Slide Converter and pick up your slide and let any guitar sing.
Product Features
- Raises string height to allow buzz-free sliding
- Convert any guitar for slide playing
- Also works as a standard capo
- Can be used with steel bar, glass, or metal slide
- Turns any acoustic or electric guitar into a slide or steel guitar instantly. Can be used in standing (solid body electric) or…Can be used in a sitting position (lap steel, resonator guitar, converted regular acoustic)
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You get what you pay for & I was more than happy with it. I’ve seen not-so-great reviews on this product and like many things, you have to know what you are getting. A little tough to figure out how to put on, but once you do, it works as I expect. Raises the strings very high to use a guitar JUST as a slide or pseudo-lap steel . You cannot use the guitar as normal with this on. Also, you can’t do drastic tuning differences when it is on ( for example you cannot take the high Estring and try to go down to a drop D on the thinnest string…. it will…
The product I received seems to be defective! I just received this item after having it shipped all the way to Australia. But I think I must have a defective product. The descriptive text and videos promoting this product talk about it having a machined groove in the bar that allows it to fit neatly over the top of the fret even when set to its lowest action. But the product I received doesn’t have such a grove. The bars are both perfectly round and that means you cannot fit them directly over the top of the frets. It has to sit…
This device is designed for easy changeover between regular and slide on the same instrument … I wanted to set up one of my guitars (early ’80s SG) for slide but didn’t want to replace the nut. This device is designed for easy changeover between regular and slide on the same instrument and I suppose it would work for that. I don’t need to do the in-gig changeover thing, though, so my approach was to raise the bridge (tunomatic, which makes it easy), tune the guitar down to open D (same as open E but down a full step) and then clamp this device at the second fret. Instant open E slide…