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'We test each of them ourselves before putting them in the shipping box.' Thalia participates in this process, putting on white gloves and making sure the capos are polished and free of any marks before shipment.īradley deposited patents for the capo. 'We cut it ourselves with our laser cutter and fix it on the capo,' he explains.

The different wood and abalone inlays come from the U.S. Bradley said he looked for a local manufacturer but could not find one with competitive pricing. Now the Bradleys are in the production phase and will soon ship the first capos. 'People went crazy over the capos,' said Bradley, 'they bought two or three of them they match the inlays to their different guitars.' Bradley said that they knew the capos were a great idea, but seeing that thousands of people were willing to buy them even before they were produced was validation. Within 22 days, Thalia Capo raised $195,221 with 3,846 backers from all over the world. Their initial goal was to raise $10,000 if additional funding was obtained they planned to expand the project. In order to fund the budding company, Bradley decided to put the project on Kickstarter, a crowd-funding platform Kickstarter gives people 22 days to raise the money they need. The part that presses on the cords, the sliding fret pad, is made of a proprietary material composed of thermoplastic and Teflon, making it super strong, yet smooth and non-sticky. The capos come in 32 different finishes, including Birdseye maple, rosewood, lacewood, and blue abalone. 'All along the process Thalia was very involved, testing it, giving advice on the different inlays.' He says that the result met all expectations. 'At some point we almost gave up,' he adds, recalling the difficulties the engineering group of 2ND Edison, Bradley's company, had creating a proper spring to hold the capo in place but still release easily. 'It took us four years to design the end product,' says Bradley, handling a beautiful capo, inlaid with rosewood. Bradley listened to his daughter, recognized the bright idea and started working with dual specifications: create something that has the same aesthetic and craftsmanship as a guitar and can be easily operated with one hand while being strong enough to maintain pressure on the strings.

In his futuristic half-dome lab, prototypes of inventions that became commercial successes can be found on every shelf.

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Thalia shared her thoughts with her father, Chris Bradley - a serial entrepreneur. Thalia, a guitar student herself, also found that moving the capo required her to stop playing and was not easy for little hands. 'I thought it should match her guitar.' A capo is a device that clamps down on the fret to change the key. 'I noticed how unaesthetic the capo on the guitar was,' remembers the OIS student. Thalia was 8 years old, lounging in her bedroom, when she spotted discordance - on her wall was a poster of Taylor Swift with a guitar. Photo Sophie BracciniĮntrepreneurship must be in Orinda resident Thalia Bradley's genes how cool is it for a 12-year-old to be at the initiation of an invention, and the creation of a product that blew all expectations on Kickstarter? The most important thing Thalia discovered is that at the root of any invention is the identification of a need, and that needs are all around us in our everyday life waiting to be recognized and transformed into great business ideas. The pricing will only apply to Thalia Capos purchased from The Turner Guitar Studio Ltd.Thalia and Chris Bradley Thalia's guitar sports a brand new capo. If you need something done very urgently, we may be able to rush the process at an additional fee that would need to be quoted. Turn around times depend on our ability to get the capos to the engraver, so they do vary. There are a variety of fonts to choose from and the word or name used can vary in length quite a bit, though the size of the text may be affected.

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There are many other options for where you can engrave on the capo, as well as other design possibilities, but anything other than text in the capos inlay will have to be quoted separately based on the desired design.įor a simple text engraving as seen in the capo in the photo, it is a flat $30.00CAD plus tax. This is our standard rate for getting a name or word engraved on the top of a Thalia Capo. We have partnered with Beamz Laser Engraving in Spruce Grove Alberta to offer our clients customization options on their Thalia capos or other musical instruments or accessories.