DIY shotgun speaker cables

Wardsweb

My weekend project. I started with some Belkin hybrid speaker cable. You will notice there are multiple types of conductors: 1-flat, 1- large, 4-medium and 12-small (individually insulated).

Wardsweb

Then some barrel banana plugs.

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There are dual cables per side, so here you're looking at the speaker end of the cable.

Wardsweb

I ran out of the barrel banana plugs so swithced to standard banana for the common end. The cables are covered in Bently Harris expandable sleeve.

hearingimpared

Nice work and really cool looking conductors. How do they sound?

acsubie

very clean looking cables! where do you purchase the flex sleeve?

Wardsweb

acsubie wrote: »

very clean looking cables! where do you purchase the flex sleeve?

I bought a 100' roll of the stuff off Ebay about 10 years ago. I've been using that very roll since then.

You can find braided sleeving all over the web. Brands like Techflex are a popular consumer grade.

zingo

Did you have to strip each separate conductor?

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zingo wrote: »

Did you have to strip each separate conductor?

The large and flat did not have any insulation. The four medium I stripped with a pair of wire cutter by just holding them lightly and pulling the insulation off. The small wire insulation can be heat stripped. I used a heat gun with small nozzle.

schwarcw

Real nice Luther! Where did you get the barrel bananas? Any pictures on how they go tother? Solder, crimp? Great work!

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schwarcw wrote: »

Real nice Luther! Where did you get the barrel bananas? Any pictures on how they go tother? Solder, crimp? Great work!

I robbed them off some Belkin speaker cables I got off a Parts-Express closeout buy. They used dual allen screws to "smash" the wire. I removed the allen screws and soldered them on.

Do a search for BFA Banana plug or connectors and you'll find them all over the web.

zingo

They look great; nice job. How do they sound?

mantis

Nice looking wires Ditto.

george daniel

very nice sir,,indeed.

jimmydep

Very professional looking work, and an interesting wire configuration.

Pauly

Very nice indeed

Pauly

polkatese

Nice!!

BlueMDPicker

As always, Luther, you could eat off your projects--they're so clean!

I gotta' get the hell outa' here. I'm getting "the thirst" again.

mopar paul

Great work! I was wondering where you got your wire? I was looking online and I am a little confused (as usual..) on the part# for bulk wire.
Thanks!

Erik Tracy

Very clean!

But, where are the magic mystery boxes?

wushuliu

mopar paul wrote: »

Great work! I was wondering where you got your wire? I was looking online and I am a little confused (as usual..) on the part# for bulk wire.
Thanks!

I believe this is the cable. I've used a lot of it myself and it is very, very good stuff. Smaller size rolls are available.

engtaz

Job well done. Great looking cables.

Ranger0912

With that type of work you should be doing this for a living!