[momomo6789]

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Does it have strain relief? It dosnt look like it from the picture.

hot glue !!!!!

 

[WayTooCrazy]

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hot glue !!!!!

Hot Glue is my Friend!

 

[tink97]

Sweet thanks everyone for the help I really appreciate it.  Very excited to start making my own cables...heh sure the first few will be crap but live and learn i say 
 
have a great day all
 
Tinker97

 

[Dookky]

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Hot Glue is my Friend!

Haha, that's exactly what I thought when I first read it.

 

[haloxt]

After much thinking about cable design philosophy, I decided to try minimizing the cable. If it sounds good after some listening tests, I may hardwire power cable to equipment, or (more reasonable) make a male to female iec adapter without any wires.
 

 
http://img5.imageshack.us/g/cimg0546j.jpg/

 

[RuiCanela]

This afternoon
iPod LOD to RCA cable
 

 

[Mengu]

Hey Head-Fi.  This is actually the first LOD i've made.  It started as a minimal ipod dock to 3.5mm plug with about an inch of wire in between.  Originally I wanted it to be as low profile as possible but I soon realized how difficult that actually was.  My final product wasn't very aesthetically pleasing so I decided to have some fun with it.  Making a very long story short, I give you my LEECH-out-dock.  It actually sounds really nice and I doubt It'll ever break.  I based the appearance of my leech on the first photo that came up when searching on google.  A weird choice I know, but it already looked like one and I thought it was kind of a cool concept.
 

 

[Zink]

What is that leech made of?!?!? It looks very good and really durable.

 

[apatN]

Hahaha looks slimey.

 

[meme]

AKG K701 Dual Entry Recable.
 
Ingredients ~ Canare L-4E5S Cable, Neutrik NP3X-B Jack Plug, Braided Expandable Sleeving & Adhesive Heat Shrink.
 

 
My first attempt at a headphone recable, took a day to make and fit.

 

[Mengu]

Hahaha thanks, I actually tried pretty hard to get the slimely look.  I used a wood putty from home depot for the shape.  After painting it I used clear elmer's glue to give it some texture and used a thick gloss glaze to try to give it a slimey appearance.  This was my first soldering experience and I've gotta say that i'm hooked.  Going to try a cmoy soon as well.  

 

[haloxt]

Thanks for explaining how you made it, I thought you were just playing a joke because of how shiny and odd it looked lol. Amazing job If I was that creative I would make all my cables like that.

 

[Francisco]

 
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You should use some flux, those cold solder will always break.
 

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IDE Cable. Shortest/smallest cable I've made so far, no noticeable changes in sound to my ears. My attempt with enamel copper wire broke, the soldering points were too weak.
 

 
 
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You should use some flux, those cold solder will always break.

 

 
Possible his iron wasn't hot enough as well, or the wires weren't tinned, who knows

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It's still working after all this time (and some ocasional abuse), without sound degradation, even if the solder isn't shiny enough for the picture.

 

[nems]

new lod


 combo

 

[Prog Rock Man]

 
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Brilliant.