Thanks Tom!
What I'm doing over the holiday weekend is making four custom partial capos for folks in Scotand, the UK, the US and Canada!
I make three-string and four-string partial capos for guitar, and two-string partial capos for banjo. The three- and four-string capos barre the bottom three or four strings on the guitar. The two-string partial banjo capo barres the lower the third and second strings below the 5th string tuner, and the fourth and third strings above the tuner -- it skips the outer string in other words.
The partial capo I find most versatile and get the most orders for is the one that barres only the lower three strings. No commerically made capos do this. The only capo I've found that works reliably when you cut that much off the capo finger is one I buy from China and modify. It works because it closes above the strings, not behind the neck. (I ruined dozens of capos before I found one that worked!)
At this point I've made about 70 partial capos for people all over the world. If anyone is curious, write me at
gkjones1@comcast.net and I'll send you my info sheet.
For me they're complete game-changers -- on my album *Fleeting*, every song utilizes a partial capo.
Cheers!
Glenn Jones
