Product Overview
What makes the Shubb capo so special? For one thing, its ingenious design: its patented over-center locking action provides an unrivaled combination of power, speed, accuracy and ease of use. One smooth flip of the lever locks it securely in place, and removes it just as quickly. The Shubb capo is BY FAR the best at not creating tuning problems. Its soft, resilient rubber is specially designed to work just like a fingertip, so it doesn't bend the strings over the frets. Its closing action is just like your hand, so it doesn't pull the string off center. As a result, no re-tuning is necessary! Precisely machined and carefully hand assembled, a Shubb capo is manufactured without compromise. Simply holding one in your hand conveys a sense of quality. Snapping it solidly onto a guitar neck in about one second, and then playing without having to retune will confirm its reputation for excellence. Shubb was introduced to the concept of partial capoing many years ago by the great acoustic guitarist Harvey Reid and by Jeff Hickey, who developed the Third Hand capo (an elastic capo designed exclusively for partial capoing). These guys both were users of Shubb capos for "regular" capoing, but were WAY into the possibilities of partial capoing. In addition to using a Third Hand, Harvey had modified one of his Shubb capos by cutting it down so that it skipped the outside string and covered only the next three. He got some really wonderful sounds with this partial capo. Shortly thereafter, we saw Chris Proctor using one he had customized, evidently inspired by Harvey. A few years later we met Adrian Legg, who was introduced by John Pearse as "the best guitar player in Europe," which is no exaggeration. He too was using a sawed-off Shubb capo quite a lot, as an integral part of his amazing guitar style. Adrian, Harvey, Chris, and Jeff had urged us for quite some time to put an end to this wanton mutilation of Shubb capos, and to actually make one ourselves that would do the job.
The Shubb C7B Partial Capo is designed to skip the 6th string and cover strings 2, 3, and 4 or 5, 4, and 3. The design features a crook in the frame that allows the capo to clearly skip the outside string without buzzing, while covering the next three strings. The capo's pad has been altered to line up with this new geometry. We nicknamed the odd looking new capo the Dogleg because of its angular bend. We didn't use that name officially when it went to market, but for a few years we still called it the Dogleg around the shop. In 1995 we introduced our C7B partial capo, and it has been growing in popularity ever since.
Features: •
- Model: C7B •
- C-Series partial guitar capo •
- Covers 3 strings • Emulates DADGAD tuning •
- Unplated brass finish •
- UPC: 700682000070 •
