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Your cart is empty.FSLB operates on a lever principle, not a spring, so it provides sufficient pressure to fret the string without muting the tone. It slides on a slim, dovetailed bar which mounts flush to the neck, making it sturdy and unobtrusive. Our fifth string capo bar is eight inches long, allowing the player to capo all the way up to the 13th fret.
Robert A., Philadelphia, PA
Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2024
I got a new banjo and needed another Shubb 5th-string capo. I've been using them since about 1977 - you do the math.Some people prefer the HO railroad spikes for the 5th string, but I never did. With the Shubb 5th-string capo, I can tighten the thumbscrew pushing the finger down to get the 5th string perfectly in tune without having to retune after releasing it - a real time saver between tunes.If you MUST remove the head from the bar for any reason, pay close attention to the position of the little coil spring inside the head. Note before you take the head off, that the spring works opposite the thumbscrew to keep the finger off the string when not being used. This spring must contact the bar correctly or the little finger will probably not stay away from the 5th string when NOT in use. This new capo has little O-Rings to keep the head from falling off inadvertently before installation - a nice touch. My first one didn't have these and I found out the hard way, after it fell off, about re-installing it with the spring oriented correctly. It took me e few times before I figured out how to do it correctly. It's not hard once you know how!Also, you must drill three holes in the neck in the vicinity of the binding (or where the binding would be if your banjo doesn't have any) to mount the bar. if you're really not sure what you are doing, you might be better off letting a luthier install it. If you do, it's a very straightforward installation. I can do it in less than an hour.The only thing not so good that I noticed concerned the flat head countersunk screw that installs in the middle of the bar. The one I received with this particular box, extended a little above the bar countersink and the head would not go past it. (It was the screw manufacturer's error, not Shubb's.) I had to file the head down a little to be flush with the bar's countersink. Now it works great!I put this 5th-string capo on every banjo I own - they work that well!
Bern Ferraz
Reviewed in Australia on October 18, 2024
I don't think I would have been able to get this item anywhere else in Australia for the price!
Stewart Filshill
Reviewed in Canada on March 15, 2022
Added the capo to my DEERING EAGLE II banjo.
Customer
Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2022
I've played banjo nearly 50 years and have tried spikes and a different type of sliding capo. The Schubb has worked the best for me. Two Gibsons and a Derring all have one.
Dana M. Hall
Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2022
This 5th string capo was as big a piece of junk as the shorter one that I installed a week ago. I have been installing these kind of Shubb capos for the past 46 years. I've used them on Fenders, Gibsons, and Deering Banjos. I paid $4000 dollars for my Gibson 10 years ago and installed this kind of capo on it myself because no one else is going to touch one of my babies and it works fine. Luckily I was installing this capo on a used Deering that I bought off of an on-line swap shop but it still cost me $450 which isn't chump change. I wound up punching 5 holes on top of the neck slightly behind the fret depth on this banjo to install both of them, one at a time, which infuriates me. About the 2nd time I used this thing to capo my banjo to A the capo device flipped off the track. Wow, quality control problems. CCC - Cheep China Crap. Thank God for Amazon Prime. I am going to give Shubb one more chance and order a capo that comes in the blue box like the one I ordered in 2019. The last two came in a brown boxes. Maybe it is the box. If that doesn't work I will have to resort to the railroad spikes which I don't like because they stretch your string out of tune and you have to retune every time you cap it.
Fender444
Reviewed in Canada on December 30, 2020
The Shubb 5th string capos are in my opinion the best out there for reliability and ease of use. They do however, have to be installed properly and since this was my 3rd installation, it was relatively straight forward. There are two main things to remember when installing. They must be installed so that they hold the string down when engaged and also 'clear' the string when parked. If either is wrong, you will be disappointed. I find the easiest way to do it is to keep a few strips of masking tape handy to temporarily hold the capo in place while you position it. Normally, it should not be much lower than 1/16" below the fingerboard but it does depend on the banjo itself. This one was installed on a Gold Tone CC100 R and it was almost flush with the fingerboard and the screws went into the binding, which if need be, is okay. I use a 1/16" drill with a dremel tool and it seems to work fine. If the screws go in to tight, back off and make the hole a bit deeper or you may break the screw off and you can only get them from Shubb! I simply hold the capo in place (along with the masking tape), drill and set the screw at the headstock end, then the other end, then the middle. I drill through the holes in the capo bar and do not mark the holes prior to drilling, just my approach. When not in use, it parks near the tuner peg as seen in the picture. This long capo allows you to capo anywhere up the fingerboard from the 6th to 14th fret. I have also installed the shorter model but actually found that having the 3rd mounting hole makes this one more stable. Hope this helps.
Elden
Reviewed in Canada on January 2, 2020
Product arrived in good shape and in time indicated. Great product, fits banjo nicely.
J. L.
Reviewed in Canada on September 1, 2019
Facile à installer sur banjo .Les instructions pour l'installation sont incluses.
Galen Hunt
Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2019
i used to use spikes to capo the 5th string, until i tied the Schubb capo which was over 15 years ago! i have since used them on all my 5 string banjos, and have set them up on my students instruments as well.
Robert B. Goldberg
Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2015
I have several banjos and have always used hooks (model railroad spikes) to capo the 5th string at higher frets. The Shubb slider is not hard to install (with the help of supplied instructions) and if installed correctly provides a good clamping action and a clear sound on the 5th string, unlike the spring loaded sliding capos that were common before the Shubb and, in my experience never really sounded good. However, even after using the Shubb for a couple of months I am still getting use to working around the bar and the sliding stop piece as I move up the neck. When installed in the correct position, the slider bar also covers up most or all of the side dots that indicate fret positions, so if you look for those higher frets rather than depend on muscle memory to shift to the correct position you will have to adjust your technique or look at the face of the fingerboard to see where you are going. The 5th string does stay closer to the correct pitch when using the Shubb than it does when you are using hooks, but small corrections are still needed. There is a clearer advantage if you want to play in keys that require a higher pitch 5th string (e.g., C or D in G tuning or F and G playing out of a D position) because it is faster and easier than using a hook at the 12th fret and retuning down. I think some people may find it substantially better than using hooks, but while I am glad I tried the Shubb, I am more likely to go the hook route for banjos I build in the future.
five string
Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2015
I have wanted one of these for a long time! It works great! I think it is the best 5th string capo made! Worth the money!
Kennneth Meyers
Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2014
I now have a shub long bar 5th-string capo on both of my banjos.The singer in our band is constantly playing around with different keys [sometimes during a performance] and having the versatility of the longer reach capo really makes it easy to change keys at short notice.Thanks for a quality product.
Jake in Long Beach
Reviewed in the United States on November 22, 2014
As far as I'm concerned, this is the best 5th string capo around - it's solid, smooth and precise, and you won't lose it in a dark room during a performance or jam. It also serves as a position indicator so you can easily see where the string 'starts', unlike railroad spikes. You do just need to be careful installing it - follow the instructions exactly or have a pro do it (I'm actually not all that handy and I've installed a few of these).
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