guitar capo

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My version of guitar capo. Without a spring, as any spring version can apply under- or overpressure, causing strings rattle or tone change. In the clamp type capo you can adjust the pressure at any time. The clamping of the strings is made with a radius of 241 mm (9.5 "), which is typical radius for the first frets of most electric and acoustic guitars (as far as I can be wrong). As a screw pair I has used a M5 bolt and a threaded rivet, pressed in without a big force. The bolt, the knob and the hex plug is glued together by a drop of hot glue. I also used small strips of genuine leather to protect the guitar neck and strings. The leather strips is glued by superglue (cyanoacrylate), inserting the strip ends into the provided anti-peel pockets. The small metal plate (the bolt abuts against it) is inserted with pressure into the moving part of capo, or it can be glued in. It is better to grind the end of the bolt, slightly rounding and smoothing. I printed the parts with some required supports. The moving parts are interconnected by a piece of nail 1.8 mm in diameter and 11 mm long. The knob is borrowed from "modular mounting system" thing designed by HeyVye, sorry :)