For years I’ve been buying guitar hook-up wire in the hope of finding the kind of wire that’s insulated in soft, flexible rubber rather than the usual hard, unbending PVC. I must have seen it in an electrics cavity somewhere and thought “I want wire like THIS!”.
Suffice to say I didn’t find it, mainly because I didn’t really know what to call it. That’s a real downside of the Google world. In that situation, to stand any chance of finding the thing you want, you’re going to have to come at it sideways using all your lateral-thinking and semantic-indexing skills. Somehow yesterday I hit on the word ‘silicone’ for the first time and that led me to this neat little kit.
It arrived today and although I haven’t yet used it the wire feels great; soft and bendy and the it feeds the different coloured wire out of little holes in the box. I can’t tell you how pleased I am with it 🙂
In other buying news; I settled on a hum-free Di Marzio ‘single coil’ pickup for the middle position on my upcoming ‘Trekki 6’ custom build. In the end I made the balanced output the priority combined with ‘hum-free’ construction and black cover. It’s also a DiMarzio which I’ve not had enough experience of yet, despite the fact that they have an impressive range of pickups to choose from.
