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Has anyone seen the April Vintage Guitar? There's an article in there about a guy who installs permanent capos by drilling holes in the fretboard, pressing in a threaded insert, and making a capo that actually screws into place.

Gulp. That's a bit too committed for my taste...

jingle_jangle wrote:...a guy who installs permanent capos by drilling holes in the fretboard, pressing in a threaded insert, and making a capo that actually screws into place.
Gulp. That's a bit too committed for my taste...

Um... yeah!

I have a home made capo like that. It was copied from an 18th century capo. And the instrument for which it was made does indeed have holes drilled through the neck. Yeah, you won't do a quick change with that contraption.
JimK

The capos for Bill Kirtchen

jingle_jangle wrote:Has anyone seen the April Vintage Guitar? There's an article in there about a guy who installs permanent capos by drilling holes in the fretboard, pressing in a threaded insert, and making a capo that actually screws into place.

Gulp. That's a bit too committed for my taste...

I actually felt a little ill thinking about anyone doing that to my Rics!

Count me in the TI flats for 12-string crowd. I also use the Kyser capo. Roger McGuinn used one in his instructional video, so that's good enough for me! It comes on and off real easy and holds the strings down well.

stsang wrote:Count me in the TI flats for 12-string crowd.

For 6ers, too! - If You want that old sound. I do!

Thank you all for responses - it sounds like I won't need to worry about set-up if I use TI Flats?

100% no worries!

Thomastik Infeld is a really good company with experience since nearly 100 years.
Read the string tensions and You know what You are doing:
http://www.thomastik-infeld.com/

Would be nice if every company tells the tensions, unfortunately RIC does not, too.

dougjk wrote:Thank you all for responses - it sounds like I won't need to worry about set-up if I use TI Flats?

Whenever you switch to a different string set, there's a chance you may need to adjust the height of your bridge, intonation or (gulp) your truss rods. You'll be glad to hear when I recently switched from the stock Ric 12-string set to the TI flats, I didn't have to do anything. In fact my guitar's intonation improved!

Yes, the TIs stay in tune - incredible good!

Even when You take Your guitar, go into another room, pick the guitar - the strings need only a very slight adjustment, if at all.
Stored at home I tune just every few days, by daily playing.