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• Or you could spend $5 and have something that's actually functional. Your choice.

  Posted by: soapdish on February 8, 2008 at 8:10 PM

• Those cheaper capos wear out really fast.I agree with "if you can make it why buy it?"

  Posted by: bayne on February 9, 2008 at 11:57 AM

• I am a guitar player and have yet to wear out a capo. They are a clamp on/clamp off (sorry clapper!) type of device. My last cost me $4.95 in 199? and still works fine.(I never took the price tag off it.:) )
  There are far better uses for my time, maybe not yours...it's like the sandblaster post- it's news to someone. And we have to remember there are ALWAYS beginners out there. This project may launch another MAKEr.

  Posted by: Volkemon on February 9, 2008 at 4:17 PM

• Heh, this reminds me: I made a two-string cigar box guitar for a friend of mine who uses a capo alot. I didn't know if a capo would work, so I rigged one up by notching two ends of a segment of bamboo skewer (quickly becoming a contemporary of duct tape and WD-40 for ubiquity and utility), and using some thick, soft cord to wrap around the skewers in the channels I notched, around the tiny neck of the cigar box guit', and back around to the other notch. A relatively simple knot allows me to tighten with a pull. Works a treat.

  So, less than five dollars in less than five minutes :D

  Posted by: failrate on February 9, 2008 at 5:51 PM

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