The Art Of Tone Gavitt Pushback Cloth Wire for Electric Guitar, 22awg Pre-tinned Stranded Copper Wire, 10 feet of Each Color, Black/White

great wire for guitar. takes solder easy,

Not having to strip insulation makes repairs significantly faster and easier. Plus it just looks cool.

I usually use this cloth wire to augment existing wiring and to replace poor ground connections in guitar repair. All I can say is that it is such a pleasure to work with a superior product that is well made and meets all of the required specs for my needs and that the wire is pre-tinned shows the commitment the manufacturer has to their end customer.

Dunno what some people are talking about... about this wire breaking easily. Because of some of the reviews, before using it on a guitar restoration, I took a piece, bent it back and forth about 20 times, then removed the insulation. It was fine. Proceeded to bend the same piece about 20 more times to see if I could get it to break, since it could now be bent at a steeper angle. Got bored with trying to break the wire. The individual strands began to separate from the twisted, tinned bundle a little bit, but none of the strands snapped. (Perhaps some people were trying to strip the wire with wire strippers, stripped to hard at too small a gauge, cut half the wire strands, and then it breaks at that point?) You're just supposed to cut to length, then push back the insulation, and then solder. If you need more length (like maybe using the wire to continue as a jumper), cut the insulation carefully, but not as far back as you need...i used a proper size stripping tool, then used some fine point scissors or an x-acto to cut the loose threads...and then push the wire back from the cut a little bit more, look to see if you have cut into the wire, and plan to use the area where you made the cut as a soldering point so that any tiny amount of cut wire is then soldered up.Another interest for restoration was the wire size. The AWG is the same as the original wire in a 60s Fender pedal steel guitar, and the cloth insulation is the same nice, small diameter as well (ordered some "vintage cloth wire" years ago that was big and ugly). While the original has each strand tinned individually and then twisted, and this new wire is twisted and tinned as a bundle (the wire is definately stiffer), knowing that the wire won't break from repeated bending, maybe this wire actually is better because it can be placed out of the way (e.g., the moving parts of a switch) or wherever you want it to be. Although, when replacing the pickup wires that were cut way too short and then added on to with plastic wire, it would have been nice to have some original floppy wire to reduce the stress at the bend where the wire exits the pickups. But what are you gonna do? Probably every pickup maker uses this exact same wire.

First time I've used cloth covered vintage guitar wire.It's all I'll use from now on.I'll never go back to plastic coated wire.Easy to install accurately.Cut the wire to length.Push the cloth back.Solder.Push the cloth against the solder joint.Nice.

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This wire is similar to the wire that was used in fifties vintage electric guitars. It works and looks cool. Whether it plays a big role in the sound can be debated.

The media could not be loaded. Sometimes you just have to do things right which means when you are working on a guitar, especially an old one, you obviously can’t use house wire or automotive wire. This wire has the right look, the right gauge and the right feel to replace or enhance any guitar project.Just have to get the right tool and feel for stripping the wire and soldering. Takes some practice.