{"id":3718,"date":"2008-07-13T09:56:58","date_gmt":"2008-07-13T13:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=3718"},"modified":"2008-07-13T09:56:58","modified_gmt":"2008-07-13T13:56:58","slug":"modifying-the-reagan-banjo-capo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/13\/modifying-the-reagan-banjo-capo\/","title":{"rendered":"Modifying the Reagan Banjo Capo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I use a <a href=\"http:\/\/web.telia.com\/~u86505074\/capomuseum\/Special\/5th_str_banjo\/5th%20str%20banjo.htm\">Reagan<\/a> banjo capo on my nylon-strung Harmony banjo. It&#8217;s a little chunk of brass with a saw-cut to take the string, a thumb-screw to keep it tight, and some felt stuck on the bottom to protect the fretboard.<\/p>\n<p>As supplied, the string slot was too narrow to take nylon strings, and too low to effectively fret the string. What I did was:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Open out the slot with the patient application of fine sandpaper. This took a <strong>long<\/strong> time, and kept gouging up the edge of the sandpaper sheet.<\/li>\n<li>Replace the felt with a thicker piece of neoprene cut from an old mouse mat.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The capo still bobs about, but stays on the neck where it should. I still haven&#8217;t solved the problem of where to store it, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I use a Reagan banjo capo on my nylon-strung Harmony banjo. It&#8217;s a little chunk of brass with a saw-cut to take the string, a thumb-screw to keep it tight, and some felt stuck on the bottom to protect the fretboard. As supplied, the string slot was too narrow to take nylon strings, and too [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[2902,1326],"class_list":["post-3718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banjo","tag-banjo","tag-capo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-XY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}