Curly cables source?

[Bluesgeetar]

Is there anyplace that still makes and sells those old curly cables that all the old greats used to use?

[MartyB]

http://www.rpelectronics.com/Default.asp?Main=/English/OnlineCat.asp?Menu=/English/Content/Categories/CatM_53.asp%26Detail=/English/Content/Divisions/Div_53_110.asp

[MartyB]

Oops,  part number is 55-954
RP electronics.

MartyB

[RetroTones]

Easily available on eBay. Search 'coiled guitar' ...  

[RDV]

Radio Shack. :wink:

RDV

[Bluesgeetar]

Thanks fellers!  

[Mark Hammer]

Avoid them like the plague.  Yes, they DO provide some helpful cable capacitance to tame brittle-sounding pickups, but they do so at the cost of very poor shielding (good braid doesn't turn tight corners very well).  If you want the benefits of cable-capacitance, stick a small-value cap from hot to ground on your guitar volume pot.

[Nasse]

:shock: I think I read something somewhere that pro´s have done "more capacitive" non curly cables using good quality (durable, non-microphonic, low noise etc.) cable that has two hot wires...  :wink:

[MattAnonymous]

Go to www.allelectronics.com they have them for 4.95 for a 25 footer.  I love these cables because they last forever.  You cant beat that price either.

[Nasse]

:roll: Leningrad Cowboys used similarly curled (though little bigger radius but same idea anyhow) pneumatic hose made for tools using pressurised air with their cardboard fake guitars. I think you can have plentiful range of bright colours available. Looked cool on rock video. Maybe you can use a wireless and plug in a fake cable like this... :roll:

[gez]

Reminds me when I was a kid watching the Blondie video where the guitarist twangs his curly lead in time to some whammy/tremolo type effect (something like that anyway).  I naively thought that's how you got this effect, went out and bought a curly lead, plugged it in, twanged it and...hmmm

[Peter Snowberg]

You could blow string through some pneumatic air hose using compressed air and then use that to pull RG-174 with plenty of cable pull lubricant.

Take care,
-Peter