DIY Cable Gallery!!

[nikongod]

Originally Posted by VR6ofpain

I think your braiding looks great. With the multifiliment pulled skin tight over it you got some extremely nice looking recables, better than Larry's IMO.

i like it too. i personally use a looser sheath when possible, but the braid is excelent.

[Fitz]

Originally Posted by VR6ofpain

I think your braiding looks great. With the multifiliment pulled skin tight over it you got some extremely nice looking recables, better than Larry's IMO.

That's quite the compliment, thanks!!

I threw together a headphone cable with the looser braid (1/2 as dense), as compared here:



The loose braid took a mere fraction of the time to braid and sleeve, so it's hard for me to choose which method to use. The loose braid has a tendency to roll and flatten out in spots, so it doesn't have as nice of an apperance. I'll probably experiment some more to get somewhere in-between, so as to have enough visibility through the sleeving, but loose enough to not take so long to assemble.

[Electro Point]

Originally Posted by Fitz

That's awesome! I didn't know there was readily available figure-8 coax that looked like that, where'd you find it if you don't mind me asking?

I found it on an interconnection I never used.
Yeah I robbed it from an interconnect to recable my headphones, it works perfect. The headphones sound even better now and look cool too!
I am not too sure where you can just buy the cable in a spool but I know they have them somewhere.

[Fitz]

Originally Posted by Electro Point

I found it on an interconnection I never used.
Yeah I robbed it from an interconnect to recable my headphones, it works perfect. The headphones sound even better now and look cool too!
I am not too sure where you can just buy the cable in a spool but I know they have them somewhere.

I know that's the kind of cable used in a lot of premade interconnects, but I'd never seen it made clear to look like regular zipcord, so I still think it's a really cool cable.

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I tested the limits of my patience earlier trying to find just the right braiding technique for my round braid, and well, I found it! I braided the wires right up against where I'd already braided and didn't pull tight at all, instead letting them naturally space out and maintaining barely any tension on the wires. Most of my other methods involved working anywhere from a couple inches to a foot past the existing braids and pulling tight at different intervals and with different amounts of tension. Also, after smoothing out the sleeving over the bundle, rather than leaving it tight as I'd done before, I pushed on an inch or so more sleeving, and gently smoothed it out over the whole cable so it was not 100% tight anymore, but nowhere enough to get loose and floppy. The cable looks and feels softer due to the tiny bit of slack, and has the least amount of stiffness possible from a braided cable this size, even rolled/wadded up it still rests almost completely flat.

I hope anybody else planning to do wire braiding or use the multifilament nylon sleeving has found this information useful. And thanks again for giving me the idea to try a loose braid again MASantos.

DT801 Re-Recable (loops/ridges actually still look as well defined as before, it's just harder to photograph them when they're more spread out):

[soloz2]

well, here are a couple of my first cables.... hopefully some of many more to come!



and alongside a Cardas HPI cable

[ronstah]

hi again
finished my new interconnects, and one extra pair and digital cable for friend.
i used DH labs silver sonic bl-1 balanced silver plated copper interconnect cable and i can say it's very good for its price range.

click on a pic for gallery...


also made a rewiring of my Pro-Ject Debut II turntable with same DH labs cable,
click on a pic for gallery...



greets, ron

[cantsleep]

cardas

[splaz]

As awesome as some of those cables look I think I'll stay a devotee to cheaper, yet still effective and neat.

Heres my first serious effort in making up a cable. I made one before that but it used plastic connectors of questionable quality, plus it looks odd as I could only get baby blue heatshink of the right diameter.

This is just some of those gold, fairly cheap connectors. Just to see how I go with a semi-nice cable. Next time I'll likely use amphenol connectors as they seem very nice, yet still price effective. Basically everything has been heatshrinked up. I bought pretty much every diameter black heatshrink I could get my hands on.

Cable is just cheap 4 core microphone, with OMG , tin on the cables.

Can't get/afford/be bothered with sleaving. Just used heatshrink for the small distance after the split with the wires twisted inside.

So umm yeah. A pretty big rant about just one cable but hey!

[Fitz]

extension cable mk2 (12 feet, ±0.5 inches):

[mb3k]

Fitz, you're crazy! You must like cable making a lot...
Nice job on all of them, they look very clean May you have successful inching of the nylon in the near future.