Shubb FS-LB 5th String Long Bar Banjo Capo - Stainless Steel

4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars | 51 ratings

Price: 40.81

Last update: 08-19-2024


About this item

Distinctive capo design that has been loved and trusted by banjo players for over 35 years
Allows the 5th-string to be capoed up to the 10th fret for countless key possibilities
Patented sliding lever is easy to use and minimizes re-tuning between key changes
Dovetailed slide bar fits snugly against the neck, out of the way of the player's thumb
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Top reviews from the United States

Robert A., Philadelphia, PA
5.0 out of 5 stars Same Great Shubb Quality I've Known for Decades
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!
Amazon Customer
5.0 out of 5 stars Works better for me than spikes.
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.
Jake in Long Beach
5.0 out of 5 stars The Best 5th string capo (IMHO)
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).
Dana M. Hall
1.0 out of 5 stars Once again Crap
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.
Galen Hunt
5.0 out of 5 stars works like a charm and very accurate once you get used to it.
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.
Kennneth Meyers
5.0 out of 5 stars The singer in our band is constantly playing around with different keys [sometimes during a performance] and having the versatil
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.
Mike child
5.0 out of 5 stars Good
Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2021
Good
Robert B. Goldberg
3.0 out of 5 stars The Shubb alternative to hooks
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.

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