Post by RobertW on Aug 17, 2016 16:14:42 GMT -5
Shubb, Kyser and Dunlop Trigger patents are expired, so anyone is free to manufacture clones of those designs. Some D'Addario patents are also expired or lapsed!?
That is why eBay exists
But why are the Dunlop clones so well made and the Shubb and the Kyser clones seemingly crap screwups? Do the Chinese reverse engineers not 'see' the factors that make the original capo designs work, and their own not so much??
Small changes in distances, angles and curves in what THEY seemed to have thought were decorative elements make some of their clones uncomfortable to hold and simply not as good as the original.
Most of the capos you see on ebay are not knock-offs or illegals. Most of the patents have expired.
But many of them are built like they were knocks off.
That is why eBay exists
But why are the Dunlop clones so well made and the Shubb and the Kyser clones seemingly crap screwups? Do the Chinese reverse engineers not 'see' the factors that make the original capo designs work, and their own not so much??
Small changes in distances, angles and curves in what THEY seemed to have thought were decorative elements make some of their clones uncomfortable to hold and simply not as good as the original.
Most of the capos you see on ebay are not knock-offs or illegals. Most of the patents have expired.
But many of them are built like they were knocks off.
