RE: Please recommend a capo for me

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gbv1158

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Joined: May 29 2009
From: Italy

RE: Please recommend a capo for me (in reply to Ron.M)

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Foro Members, Tony Arnold (a_arnold), Isnyman and others make and sell traditional cejillas.

I have a coupple of Isnyman's cejillas and I must say they work very good and are even very nice.

ciao,
giambattista

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Feb. 13 2012 19:31:45

Ron.M

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From: Scotland

RE: Please recommend a capo for me (in reply to gounaro)

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Chaos in Athens!

Cheer up gounaro!

Just finished listening to a BBC Radio 4 programme where they said that if Greece had to ditch the Euro and intoduce the New Drachma, it would quickly fall to 50% of it's par value.
That would aid exports and also attract a lot of multinational corporations to build manufacturing facilities in Greece and financial institutions to invest, to buy the New Drachma low and wait for it's inevitable rise due to rapidly increasing national prosperity.

In fact a number of financial institutions have already such plans in place and are just waiting to see what happens.
Greece could become the new Tiger Economy.

I'll post a link when the programme becomes available on line.

Edit: Oops.. it's just become available now...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01bwm1h

cheers,

Ron

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Feb. 13 2012 20:35:35

gounaro

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From: Athens, Hellas

RE: Please recommend a capo for me (in reply to Ron.M)

This means Ron agreements with different terms and of course "selling the country" saying "yes" to all.

Anyway this thread is for capos....

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Feb. 13 2012 21:38:58

Anders Eliasson

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RE: Please recommend a capo for me (in reply to gbv1158)

Ron
I dont think a bare neck will be a problem. The sweat and grease from your hand will get into the wood and preserve it. Violins, Cellos etc have bare wood necks.

But an expensive guitar looses value if the neck is bare.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Feb. 14 2012 7:37:32

Ron.M

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From: Scotland

RE: Please recommend a capo for me (in reply to Anders Eliasson)

Thanks Anders,

Actually things like dings and scratches and worn FP etc on a guitar have never bothered me (so long as there was no structural damage), the most important thing always being the feel and the sound.
When I sold my old Ramirez 1a Blanca some years ago it had many scratches and worn FP immediately above and below the tap plate.
I told the buyer that it probably wouldn't cost too much to get the guitar re-finished if he wanted.
But he said he liked it the way it was as it gave the guitar "more character".

cheers,

Ron

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Feb. 14 2012 8:32:27

marduk

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RE: Please recommend a capo for me (in reply to Ron.M)

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I told the buyer that it probably wouldn't cost too much to get the guitar re-finished if he wanted.
But he said he liked it the way it was as it gave the guitar "more character".

im feeling that

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Feb. 14 2012 13:13:32

tmock

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Joined: Jan. 23 2005
From: New York, New York

RE: Please recommend a capo for me (in reply to gbv1158)

Louis--I recommend Tony Arnold's cejillas. I don't think traditional wood and string cejillas get much better. You can see my (perhaps over-)enthusiastic review in a different thread if you search the forum for "carved cejilla."

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I once tried a guitar (Burguet) that had been played for years and years by a professional so that the French Polish had completely worn off the neck.
The grain still looked completely sealed and it felt incredibly smooth and comfortable to play LH-wise with no sticky friction on sweaty hands.
I really liked that feel.

I really oil-finished necks, too. They just feel more natural (and less sticky). If I ever have a guitar custom built, I'm pretty sure I'll request it. Resale-value-be-damned.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Feb. 14 2012 19:59:57

Anders Eliasson

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RE: Please recommend a capo for me (in reply to gbv1158)

French Polished necks have a very natural feel as well.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Feb. 15 2012 7:18:11

orsonw

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Joined: Jul. 4 2009
From: London

RE: Please recommend a capo for me (in reply to Anders Eliasson)

Thanks for the recommendation, I got a planet waves.

I agree, it's much easier because it doesn't pull the strings out of tune. I often play with singers so need to change position. It makes performance better because I don't keep breaking the energy by having to mess around with tuning everytime I move the capo.

The ludite in me prefers the dunlop but I can't argue with the tuning advantage of the planet waves, so dunlop for home, planet waves for performing.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Feb. 24 2012 20:57:53