The Elliott Capo Story
The Elliott Capo
While
playing guitar in the mid 70’s, Phill took an interest in finding a capo
with a compact design that would not interfere with the fretting hand while
playing. Not finding what he wanted, Phill headed to his brother’s machine
shop and began experimenting, making improvements to the prevailing capo
design that was available at the time. The very first Elliott Capos,
Phill gave away to musician friends or sold to help cover the cost of
materials. Eventually, he found himself making capos all week and picking
at bluegrass festivals on the weekends. All the while, Phill continued to
tinker with the design at every opportunity. Given a gift in a dream one
morning, Phill went to his shop and made the first “Push Button” capo. The
Elliott Capo had been born. This is the tried and true patented design we
still produce today. Studio quality sound and predictable functionality is
built into every Elliott Capo.
The McKinney Capo
During
his search for a better capo, Phill came across the McKinney Capo. The
McKinney design impressed him.
J.D. Crowe helped him get in touch with Tom McKinney. Phill and Tom
kicked some ideas back and forth about capo design and their common
passions and a relationship was born. Phill and Tom formed a business
agreement and soon Phill was building the McKinney Capo as well as his
recently patented “Push Button” style capo. Elliott Capos is the only
authorized manufacture of the McKinney line of capos. One-day,
Tom sent Phill some banjo capo frames he had experimented with. They were
pretty rough but Phill ran with the basic idea and soon developed the Elite
series capo.
About the Capo
To meet The Elliott Capo high
standard of quality, each capo is carefully machined, surface finished and
assembled in our shop out of high quality stainless steel. All of our capos
are studio quality, designed for accurate tuning and rich tone
characteristics. Multiple models are available for the various neck widths
and radiuses for both the Guitar and Banjo. Custom sizes are also available
with adequate information and measurements on a very limited basis.
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