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a_arnold -> RE: i love my new capo! (freshly carved by a_arnold) (Jan. 22 2008 12:09:31)
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Hi, guys. Thanks for all the comments. I'm guessing (reading between the deleted lines) that you might like an asymmetric design (with the peg off center over the bass E, and the rest of the capo low-profile so it's not in the way of Ricardo's chord). I've been thinking about a wave-like design, similarly carved, but with the wave breaking on the bass side, beach on the treble.
And Pimientito, I have done a few requests with inlaid garnets (not diamonds -- sorry) or with mother of pearl inlay with the owner's initials laser-engraved on the MOP. I have to charge extra for engraving, though, since I have to pay an engraving shop. The garnets are only $3 extra.
As for the "shoe string" -- it isn't. I don't like the cumbersome flap of protective leather that you have to put on when you use a nylon G-string as the cord. Nor do I like th sloppy look of a knotted nylon string. I started carving these to keep from going crazy when I was in the Navy, and used Navy shot line for the cord (if you were ever "in" you'll know what that is). When I ran out of that, I searched high and low before I found a similar braided cord soft and thick enough to protect the neck finish and yet thin enough to go through a reasonably-sized peg.
I'm surprised someone hasn't wondered how I attach cord to cejilla without a big ol' knot showing . . .
I've played puro for a long time and am just beginning to learn nuevo. Never owned a guitar that didn't have pegs, and never used any other kind of cejilla, but the low-profile treble makes sense. Sort of a nuevo cejilla . . . ?
Tony Arnold
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