1966 Epiphone Texan help

[Fuica]

Hello everybody, I'm new to the forum. And I need some help.

I'm goin to buy an elliot capo and they need to know the measures of my guitar, the nut width and the measure of the fingerboard at the seventh fret.

My guitar is an original 1966 epiphone texan, made in Kalamazoo.

 

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[ozigor]

Ola Fuica,

Don't they have rulers in spain??

Just measure it your self.

Hasta pronto

[Fuica]

haha, yeah man

We obviously have rulers, but I'm not very sure of what I have to measure.

Thanks for your help

[charlie brown]

Just the width, and thickness at the nut (where the strings cross over, to the headstock), and the

the width of the fingerboard, as well as the thickness of the neck itself, at the 7th fret. Should be

all they need.

 

Cheers,

CB

[TommyK]

I apologize in advance for getting a little basic, but your posts makes me wonder where your difficulty lies, so here goes:

 

The nut is that whitish colored piece at the top of the fret board, above the 1st fret that has slots for each string to pass through. Measure it's full width from outside the High and low E strings. Your measurement will be a bit longer than the distance between the 1st and 6th string.

 

Then measure the width of the 7th fret in the same way. The first fret is the first one just below the nut. Your index finger falls on the fret board just above it when you fret the high E string when forming a C chord. Then count move from there towards the sound hole, counting 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Then Bob's your aunt, measure it in the same way you measured the nut.

 

Or...

 

You could just buy a $20 Dunlop, one size fits all, capo and be done widit.