jumped into soldering my own patch cables instead of working around specifically-sized stock ones. been a good while now (over a year). i've made quite a number of patch cables for myself and my band, as well as a couple of instrument cables, and i've yet to have any issue with any of them )that weren't caused by my shoddy amateur soldering!). initial impressions worried me a little as the cable seemed a little thin and flexible compared to, say, the fender cables i tended to use previously, but having given them a good long field test (quite rigorous, as i am perhaps less gentle with my cables than i ought to be) the build quality is solid and produce no issues sonically whatsoever. perfect buy!