Up-tuning your guit, safe or not?

Tonedef · 2011-04-04T11:47:04+00:00

Reason I am asking is, this morning I tuned high E up to G on the cort (twas a lazy octave kluge for something already beaten out on the G string) and it snapped. The break was at the tuner so I dunno if the string was iffy or whether it was a stupid thing to do. Not sure of the guage, they are the originals but slightly thinner than the slinky tens I use on the strat.

Norman86

Not in real life Bob...
From the pics i have seen though, the shubb looks huge!!

The other thing is, i cant see how it works, or make out how it works from the pictures i have seen!
Thats why i bought the kyser type capo... spring loaded, easy to clip on and off and understand!

Squonk

Norman86 wrote Not in real life Bob...
From the pics i have seen though, the shubb looks huge!!

The other thing is, i cant see how it works, or make out how it works from the pictures i have seen!
Thats why i bought the kyser type capo... spring loaded, easy to clip on and off and understand!

I have never used the Shubb but have heard they are superior to the Kyser, I have a genuine Kyser and am not overly impressed.

Maybe I should buy the shubb copy and we can compare them Bob?

Bob-Dubery

Squonk wrote
Norman86 wrote Not in real life Bob...
From the pics i have seen though, the shubb looks huge!!

The other thing is, i cant see how it works, or make out how it works from the pictures i have seen!
Thats why i bought the kyser type capo... spring loaded, easy to clip on and off and understand!
I have never used the Shubb but have heard they are superior to the Kyser, I have a genuine Kyser and am not overly impressed.

Maybe I should buy the shubb copy and we can compare them Bob?

Maybe you should bring that Kyser round to my place and I'll get in some Goblin Bitter and we can do a comparison of various capos and post the findings (which will, of course, be rigorous and scientific) to GFSA along with pictures so people can understand the size issues.

I think (think) that there's a difference in sound with the different capos as well. This makes some sense because the G7 is much heavier than the Shubb and thus may damp the neck a little more.

Capos, like many other things, are trade-offs. The thing about the Kyser-type capo is that you can move it around really quickly. I have seen Guy Buttery do a number where he respositions the capo whilst playing. You won't do that with a Shubb. I've a DVD of John Martyn and he gets up to similar tricks on his show-off number - and that was one of the old elastic style capos, so he had to push and pull it along the neck.

singemonkey

I bought a Shubb to replace my bulky lever type capo that I bought in Glastonbury in 1999. But I've notice that weirdly it seems bend the strings out of pitch on the Les Paul with .10s. Anyone else have this issue. Reducing the tightness helps, but doesn't eliminate the problem.

Bob-Dubery

singemonkey wrote I bought a Shubb to replace my bulky lever type capo that I bought in Glastonbury in 1999. But I've notice that weirdly it seems bend the strings out of pitch on the Les Paul with .10s. Anyone else have this issue. Reducing the tightness helps, but doesn't eliminate the problem.

You're supposed to set it up for a guitar - for the neck and the strings on that guitar. I get away with it on my acoustics because they have the same strings and very similar necks. That's the reason the Shubb is adjustable - when it's adjusted properly you get just enough pressure on the strings. Some might think of this as a feature, some might think of it as a PITA.

This is the problem the G7 is supposed to solve. You just press it shut with your hand until it's gripping the strings, and it has a ratchet and clutch system which holds everything in place at that tension and which is released with a little thumb lever.

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