Paige Capos

[edwardofhuncote]

Doing a little plug for some nice folks I met while vacationing in Galax, Virginia recently, at the Old Fiddlers Convention... this is a pretty big gathering of musicians that happens every August here in Southwest Virginia, and I didn't think to ask how they had heard about it, but one afternoon while walking along the vendor row, I happened to spot one awning that had the familiar shape and logo of Paige Capos on it, and a man and woman sitting in the shade of it with a big display of... well... Paige Capos. It was a couple minutes before I realized that I was talking to Bryan and Lisa Paige. They'd come to show a few new wares, and sell at the Fiddlers Convention, and had a nice in-person deal or two running on a few of them.

It was pretty cool to actually meet the guy who came up with that legendary sleek design yoke-type capo years ago. (one of their originals is worth BIG BUCK$ if you can find one) They run a nice business, and their new designs are really something. I bought myself a handmade RetroPro from Bryan (#274) custom fit to the slightly tighter fingerboard radius of my Gibsons.

I've still got my old prototype Daniel Smith capo from 30 years ago for everything else... Daniel did the R&D for the McKinney capo, if you ever heard of them... Rice kinda' started that rock rollin' down the hill, and suddenly all of us needed better capos. I seen it first!!!
Anyhow, If you find yourself in need of a nice capo, give the Paiges a ring or a ping. https://paigecapo.com

[cozmik_cowboy]

It was pretty cool to actually meet the guy who came up with that legendary sleek design yoke-type capo years ago.

Correct me if I'm wrong (and I may well be; I've always used a Kyser clamp-type), but didn't Schubb do that first? 

Peter

[edwardofhuncote]

IDK, Coz, maybe, but I never had one. All the Shubbs I had/have were the cam lever type.


Here is an original late-80's Paige D, belongs to one of the mods at the UMGF.

[cozmik_cowboy]

Huh - well, I've learned something today; victory!

I had, of course seen the cam lever ones, but somehow it never penetrated my well-armored brainpan that they were Schubbs; I was only consciously aware of them making the the 5th-strings ones & the Fine Tunes.  These last were what I was thinking of.  It seems that Schubb's been around about  10 years longer - but upon further research it appears the FTs a were a later (and, um....heavily cribbed?) addition to the line.  The Paige D is exactly the required-by-law-for-'grassers item I was thinking of when I heard "Schubb".  I sit corrected.

Peter (who has on more than one occasion wept at what happens to the back of Martin necks when a picker who perhaps has had an extra turn at the Mason^® jar tightens a Paige D down after the pad has fallen off, and hereby apologizes to Schubb for things he may have said about them those cases........)

[Greywolf]

I'vre been using the PAige for 30 years , great capo

[edwardofhuncote]

Cool, have you got one of the original issue ones?


I really like this new RetroPro. Thing is slick.

[edwardofhuncote]

I called up the fine folks at Paige Capos yesterday to inquire about a capo for the new-to-me Martin M-38... I needed a 16" radius crossbar, and if possible, in gold finish. They got right to work on it, and PaigePro #443 will be on the way tomorrow. The difference between this model and my RetroPro (other than the 12" radius...) is that the crossbar on these come with individual saddle-pieces to clamp each string, each is mounted to a tiny swivel. The material I'm told, is a very hard composite, not unlike synthetic nut material. They are replaceable of course. Slick!


https://paigecapo.com/product/paigepro-6-stringpp-6-eti/

[edwardofhuncote]

My new PaigePro 6 got here in yesterday's mail, just in time for an early Saturday morning jam. I took both the Gibson J-35 and Martin M-38 guitars with me, and ended up playing the J-35 all morning, but I've tried the new capo out on my Martin and wow, it's slick. I especially like that you can loosen it quickly, and slip it right behind the nut, and with a quick spin of the thumb wheel, snug it in place until needed again.


Here's how they fit the guitars in practice. I tried also to picture those little saddle pieces on the new gold Pro model. Hard to see in my pictures, but the yokes of both are lined with suede leather. (Paige has a much better picture of this detail on their site) This is a super-nice little extra attention-to-detail item they do on these.


It's an over-engineered, over-built, ridiculously high quality device to do a simple job. Yes, all of the above. I love 'em. Thinking very seriously about getting Bryan to make me an extra-wide model for my converted D-12-20. I have to use a 12-string capo on it still. And that neck is profiled deeper than a 6-string too. I'm good with the Shubb on it for now.