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I've seen lots of people use these small ribbed tubes/pipes, pictured below, in lots of their conversions.

Was just curious what the actual name for these is, so that i could find and buy some?

Piano or guitar wire


its a little hard to work with at times as its spring steel so will bounce alot after bending

alternatively you could get a green stuff cable/tentacle tool for a similar effect

Awesome, didn't even know green stuff tools were available for this - thanks for the tip!

Generally, yes, larger bass/guitar strings.

I used to live with a bass player (and gamer) and I used to get his broken strings off him (especially the thick E strings).

He played in a local metal band, and broke strings during each performance.

You WILL need two pairs of pliers for bending it to shape and good nippers/cutters for cutting the stuff as the steel wire core WILL notch inferior clippers.
I recommend tungsten carbide bladed cutters.

A friend of mine has a tool. I think it was just called the cable thingie or something. It's a hand crank device to coil thin wire for that effect.