4/29/08 — We are expanding our workplace by adding a second California facility. Some time next month much of our assembly, shipping, and sales force will move to our new place in Rohnert Park, about 20 minutes from our present Valley Ford location. Valley Ford will still serve as a warehouse and administrative office. This will effectively double our work space, and help us to assemble and ship capos more efficiently.
4/29/08 — E-commerce on our site has changed to a shopping cart. The new setup is more intuitive and familiar. In case you run into any vestiges of the old order form system, bear with us as we're still cleaning up a few loose ends.
At the urging of my trusted advisor Kelly, I have been dragged (kicking and screaming) into MySpace.
You can now visit our brand new MySpace page at www.myspace.com/shubbcapos. So there.
This year's Shanghai show was very much like last years; fast, busy, exciting, chaotic, and above all, LOUD beyond description.
At this time one year ago I reported that I felt many of the rough edges of this show would be smoothed out as the show matured. If there was any improvement this year, I didn't see it. Despite co-sponsorship by Messe Frankfurt, the Chinese style seems to trump the German influence.
Still there is business to be done there, and some of it manages to get done even under these mostly adverse conditions.
I've attended the Healdburg Guitar Festival several times in the past, but this was our first year exhibiting there. I was not able to be there myself, but our booth was capably staffed by Gary Mobley and Cindy Hawkins.
NAMM's last hurrah in Texas was small but lively, and for us, quite frankly, a very good show for business. We opened some new accounts, and had many productive meetings with dealers, distributors, and artists.
Friday night we once again were proud to present the incredible John Jorgenson Quintet in concert. The group just keeps getting tighter, and John's guitar virtuosity continues to reach new heights.
The annual Acoustic Guitar Magazine readers' poll has published its results for 2006, and again the readers have voted SHUBB CAPOS as their favorite.
Thanks to all of you satisfied users for casting your votes for us.
After 27 years,
Shubb Capos are Still the Best!
The Spring 2007 issue of Fretboard Journal includes an article about me, and the rock posters I did for the Carousel Ballroom, way back in the "olden days." The story mostly focuses on the fact that these posters (while they looked good) would have looked better if the communication between artist, printer, and producer had been better. In short, the wrong inks were often used. Fretboard Journal has kindly printed my revised versions of these four rock posters, on which I have digitally re-done the colors to appear closer to my original concepts. I have now made the improved reprints of these posters available, as high quality art prints.
And speaking of ink, I'm getting more than my share lately. I'm also featured in Business 2.0 magazine. This is just a one-page piece, which is essentially accurate, but kind of truncates the development of Shubb Capos just a bit for the sake of brevity. You can see it or download it here (pdf). I understand that this piece has also been run in Fortune Magazine.
