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im looking for something to make power cables. i have seen this thing that makes it from green stuff, you simply roll two pieces of plastic card over it then it gives you a pipe like length of green. Anyone know what it is and idealy any ebay links to it?
thanks guys

I suppose you're referring to the tube tool made by Masquerade: http://masqmini.com/index.php/bees-sculpting/tools-n-stuff/tubetool.html
(old one was green, apparently now it's made of clear plastic).

That's the one I use. Tricky to get used to but once you get the knack it's great. I especially like that you can make knurled (diamond 'chunk') handles with it too.

yep that is indeed the thing im after. anyone know where it can be purchased cheapest? thanks again guys


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yep that is indeed the thing im after. anyone know where it can be purchased cheapest? thanks again guys

Masq-mini? Don't think anywhere else has quite the same thing.

I use pipe cleaners for power cables. Burn off all the fuzz with a lighter, and you get a cool twisted length of wire.

You can see an example of how it looks on this dreadnought I did. (The paintjob sucks, but the wire still looks alright.)

ive found that a hair comb does exactly the same. result

jonny5 wrote:
im looking for something to make power cables. i have seen this thing that makes it from green stuff, you simply roll two pieces of plastic card over it then it gives you a pipe like length of green. Anyone know what it is and idealy any ebay links to it?
thanks guys

You could use some old guitar wires. They have all kinds of gauges. Reduces the time of making them yourself out of green stuff but, you can use green stuff to attach them.

I use old guitar cables that I got for free from a music shop, they were just going to throw them away anyway.

Guitar STRINGS folks. Cables are what you plug it into an amplifier with.

Sorry. In a pedanty mood.

Guitar strings are kind of a PITA to work with though.

You do need the right tools to manipulate them.

TWO pairs of needle nosed pliers at a minimum. Allows good control of where you put the bends without kinking the string.

 Eggs wrote:
Guitar STRINGS folks. Cables are what you plug it into an amplifier with.

Sorry. In a pedanty mood.

Mechanically speaking, wound guitar strings ARE cables. Any sort of wire/string that is made up of multiple different strands bonded our wound together is a cable. Since wound guitar strings have a core and a wire wound around them, I'm pretty sure they'd be classified as a cable.

In music you might refer to a cable as something that hooks in to the amplifier and the string as the thing you pluck, but since we are being pedantic, in a more general sense it's fine to call the strings cables