There's nothing wrong with using a capo. The only possible problem you could ever run into is if your capo has a rubber pad to protect the neck, and you have a nitrocellulose lacquer on your guitar.
This is rare. And expensive. Until you're spending WELL over £1k on a guitar, you will NEVER have to worry about this.
Secondly, it won't do anything to your strings that you won't do when you're playing anyway.
Thirdly, if you need a string guage thinner than 7, you're doing it wrong. 7 is unbelievably, incredibly stupidly thin. Its practically gossamer. Your guitar probably SHIPPED with 9s on it. 10s are considered standard.
And thats just for electric. On acoustics, 12s are considered "Medium guage".
Learning the guitar necessitates a certain amount of pain as your fingertips harden and develop in order to meet the demands of playing the instrument. Don't shy away from it. Stevie Ray Vaughan used 13's as STANDARD, and in the studio sometimes went as high as 18 guage for the HIGH E.
Finally, if you're worried about breaking strings, buy elixer brand strings, and buy a thicker guage like 10s or something. They'll last you a whole ****ton of a lot longer than 7s, 8s, or 9s of any brand. Like literally "I used to change my strings every 3 weeks, now I change them every 4 MONTHS, and they still feel better than the other brands used to when I changed those"
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