You said single conductor wire with the stranded metal shielding - I've never seen it in a colour other than silver like the photo.
Maybe I have the terminology wrong.
That's the same single conductor vintage cloth covered wire that nextgen sells. If I'm reading this right, he's looking for - from inside to outsid - an insulated single conductor stranded, with the braided shielded stuff over that, then a colored insulator on the outside.
Yep, it's the cheap import wiring, likely because it is a cheap import guitar. Going "traditional" would require drilling into the body of the guitar, as there is not much space to get the wire from the pickups through to the switch, and then back down through the same passage to the cavity. So no, it would not be worth it.
Thanks, but not what I am looking for -- no outer layer of stranded wire.
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Back when people had CD-Rom drives in their desktop machines, you could buy cables with connectors at both ends for patching the audio output of the CD drive to your soundcard. I bought a bunch of them. They're shielded 3-conductor wire (probably #26 gauge) with a vinyl outside jacket. Perfect for wiring up pickups and such. You don't have to use, or even keep, all 3 conductors in there, and can simply pull out the ones you don't need.Well, I found the type of wire (must have missed it first time around), but wish more colours were available.
Hookup Wire - 26AWG Stranded, Coax, Braided, Insulated - Black (by foot)
26AWG stranded (7/34) soft copper single conductor coax wire with a tinned copper braided shield and outer insulation. RG-174 Military Grade.
I'm still using some wire from the same idea/approach... cannibalized from an old power supply.
