Dobro Capo I’m pretty pleased with this capo. Some years ago I had another that just locked onto the strings and sort of floated in space. It was kind of difficult to get exactly where it had to be. This capo has the nice feature that it has a piece that slides over the fret so you can accurately and easily position. I initially had a little trouble getting it to solidly clamp the first string but either it’s working better or I have somehow figured out how to position it better because that problem…
Unimpressed Well, I figured since it’s a Shubb, it should be good. It looked really nice, and seems well made. However, I couldn’t get it to apply pressure evenly across the strings, no matter how much I fiddled with it. And I fiddled with it a LOT. It just wouldn’t mute the strings at the far end. I tried for over an hour to get it to work. The instructions say it takes a bit of playing around to get it to work right. Well, I couldn’t. It was just too finicky, and if it was that bad in my home, how much…
An excellent dobro capo An excellent dobro capo….but it could use a very slight improvement in design: since the thinner stings are, um, thinner, they are not as effectively clamped as the heavier gauge ones, and as such, tend to buzz a bit. I think a solution would be to slightly in crease the “forward lean” of the bar. I have tried, with some success to accomplish a similar result by pressing firmly down over the 1st string during the clamping process. This issue may just be specific to my {Beard} dobro…
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Dobro Capo I’m pretty pleased with this capo. Some years ago I had another that just locked onto the strings and sort of floated in space. It was kind of difficult to get exactly where it had to be. This capo has the nice feature that it has a piece that slides over the fret so you can accurately and easily position. I initially had a little trouble getting it to solidly clamp the first string but either it’s working better or I have somehow figured out how to position it better because that problem…
Unimpressed Well, I figured since it’s a Shubb, it should be good. It looked really nice, and seems well made. However, I couldn’t get it to apply pressure evenly across the strings, no matter how much I fiddled with it. And I fiddled with it a LOT. It just wouldn’t mute the strings at the far end. I tried for over an hour to get it to work. The instructions say it takes a bit of playing around to get it to work right. Well, I couldn’t. It was just too finicky, and if it was that bad in my home, how much…
An excellent dobro capo An excellent dobro capo….but it could use a very slight improvement in design: since the thinner stings are, um, thinner, they are not as effectively clamped as the heavier gauge ones, and as such, tend to buzz a bit. I think a solution would be to slightly in crease the “forward lean” of the bar. I have tried, with some success to accomplish a similar result by pressing firmly down over the 1st string during the clamping process. This issue may just be specific to my {Beard} dobro…