Patent pending
The Omega Capo turns a six-string guitar into a ukulele, and back into a normal capo, by sliding it up the neck. No adjustment, no moving parts, no second component.
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How it works
Placed at the fifth fret, the fret bar clamps the four highest strings while a dampening pad rests on the two lowest and mutes them. The four sounding strings reproduce the pitch and interval relationships of a ukulele tuned G-C-E-A — so standard ukulele chord shapes and songbooks work directly on your guitar.
Moved higher up the neck, the fret bar clamps all six strings. The extended arm clears the neck entirely and the pad touches nothing. It behaves as an ordinary trigger capo, because it is one.
Why it matters
Partial capos already exist. They skip strings or fret a subset — but none of them silence the strings they leave behind, so those strings ring out and spoil the effect. The Omega Capo actively dampens them. That is the whole idea, and nobody else does it.
A guitarist who wants to play ukulele otherwise has to buy and learn a ukulele. One familiar device, two instruments.
Prototype
This is the working prototype — 3D printed, proving the mechanism. The production version is being professionally designed now.
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The Omega Capo is in development. Leave your email and follow the journey from prototype to production.