(Update 13/12/15) I've moved this to the Artisan Services section
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=77725.0Debut Sale : Tarmac Orange Sale
Updated price :
1ft - 12USD <--(base price)
2ft - 15USD
3ft - 18USD
4ft - 21USD
5ft - 26USD
6ft - 31USD
Shipping - 10USD (worldwide)(registered mail with tracking)
Thanks for all the support
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Hi fellow GHer,
This is an IC to see whether there are enough interest for me to start making braided USB cables and sell it here.
I have been making my own braided cables for quite awhile now, sometimes when I post a picture of my keyboard, someone will ask about the cable and some even requested me to make them one. After buying and testing lots of wires from many different sources and lots of trial and error, finally I managed to pick a few wires that make great cables.
If you're still not so convinced, please take a look at the pictures
So, are they pretty?
I will update the approximate pricing and shipping later
-Update 1 (02/10/15)
Hi, thanks for all the positive feedbacks
I will list out stuff that I can get my hands on right now and explain a little bit of what I'm offering now.
Currently I will offer 2 types of wires, one is the sky blue one, it's about .6mm in thickness, so it will need more wires (braid into one) to make it feel more substantial instead of feeling like hair thin fragile. Another option is the 'white' and black wires which are 1mm thick in diameter, the 'white' one is a silver plated copper wire, definitely audio grade and most importantly made in USA (I actually made one audio cable with it for my SE535 iem). The black one is oxygen free copper wire, made in Japan and audio grade as well. There will be another option for a clear wrapping material, which shows the copper color.
Now comes to the color, the .6mm wire is sky blue color, the 'white' wire actually have a hint of silver-ish look to it irl. The black wire, same as the pic, it's solid black. I see quite a few of you requesting for a grey cable and Hoff requested for a CMYK for quite awhile now. Sorry to say I don't have them in hand now, but I will try to find them from different sources, and if they don't pass, I won't offer them. As usual, quality comes first, also some wires are really not suitable for braiding as they don't hold their shape very well (I've dumped more than 60m of wires atm). I actually found a source that offers quite many colors, I will try to buy some and try it out and update here in near future. Currently I still haven't see a very accurate magenta color wire, they have translucent red and a 456gt kind of pink.
As for braiding options, there are 3 options for 4-wire braid (round, flat#1, flat#2). For 8-wire braid (square, round, flat#1, flat#2). Usually for thinner wires, I won't go for a 4-wire braid, it will look and feel pretty awful, not that it will break that easily, but it feels like it. For a slightly thicker wire, like the 1mm thick wire, we can do both and it will generally look more robust.
I will use the gold plated 'naked' connectors like shown in pic, but if you really want those with a plastic housing, I can source it for you. Currently only offers USB male to miniUSB male. I can't seem to find fancy color heat shrinks, good quality ones generally comes in black, white, clear, red and blue.
Pricing. At this point, I can't give you a solid answer, but I can set a rough base price of US$10 for 1ft of the sky blue cable (as shown in pics above), and everything else add onto that price. The USA and Japan made wires are a little more pricey, but they are better in terms of audio quality but totally overkill as a keyboard cable. *that is estimated price, not final price
Shipping. I will use registered mail with tracking most probably and that will be about US$10 depends on where you live on earth.
Phew, that's super long
Most probably I will start offering the cables in late November, my final exam is coming pretty soon so I have to prepare for that.
Keep in mind that cables are made to order, so you'll definitely have to wait for it.
Those points that I stated above are not solid yet, so don't quote me on that, I can't promise you anything atm.
Thanks for reading all that
-Update 2 (17/10/15)
Here is an update.
Here will be my logo (most probably), hope it's not too shabby
A kind friend helped me a lot on getting this done, I really suck at PS
I figured out the shipping, asia will be $6USD and rest of the world it's $10USD. I will be shipping them with bubble mailer and the shipping is registered post with tracking. It will take 4-10 days for asia and 6-11 days for other countries. *subject to change depend on post office
I will explain a little bit about those braiding that I'm offering.
- 4 wire braid
-for thicker wires, e.g. 1mm thickness wires
-type of braid available ( round, flat#1, flat#2 )
- 8 wire braid
-for thick and thin wires, e.g. .6mm thickness wires
-type of braid available ( round, flat#1, flat#2, square)
1. 8 wire round braid
2. 8 wire flat#1
3. 4 wire round braid (Silver plated copper)
4. 4 wire round braid (copper)
8 wire flat#2
Basically the braid pattern are the same on both the 4 wires and 8 wires braid, but they have a different look to it.
Colors that I will be offering,
-0.6mm
- sky blue
- will probably offer them IF they are good, waiting stock to try (black, white, grey, clear, red, translucent red, orange, yellow, light purple, blue, light blue, light green, pink, brown) *sorry no cyan and magenta
-1mm
- clear silver plated copper
- clear copper
- black copper
Pricing, *subject to change
Base price (base price includes 1 x gold plated USB A male + 1 x gold plated miniUSB male)
- 0.6mm $10USD for 1ft, every additional ft is $2USD
e.g. 4ft cable will be $10 + (3 x $2) = $16
- 1mm (listed price is for 4 wire braid, 8 wire braid is double of the listed price, expensive because it's real audio grade and imported from the states)
-copper $15USD for 1ft, every additional ft is $4USD
-silver plated copper $16 for 1ft, every additional ft is $5USD
the length is hand measured and measured before braiding, after braiding it will be a little bit shorter, just a little bit
Hope this update helps
