George L cable assembly help!

[Animal]

I recently bought 5 foot of .155 George L cable and right angle jacks. I'm going to use for my rack setup and maybe for some pedals.

The problem is that I'm so stupid I can't figure out how the cable connects to the jack. I've looked at the instruction guide on the George L website and I'm still confused:

http://www.georgelsstore.com/faq.html

It says that you are supposed to cut the cable straight across. I'm not sure if they mean just by cutting it as you would normally do to make a cable shorter or splicing it straight down the middle. It also mentions you shouldn't push the cable all the way down the barrel. I'm a bit perplexed how the components actually come into contact with each other.

I tried putting each end of the cable into the jack slot with a blunt end and screwing tops on but I got no singal when I tried to use it with my tuner.

 

[sosomething]

Re: George L cable assembly help!

It's even simpler than you think.

Cut the cable straight across like so:

====|==
....(cut)

then shove the end into the hole in the jack and screw the cover down. The downward pressure forces the actual wire inside to contact the tip of the jack and the threads on the cap bite through the shielding on the cable, grounding it.

It's seriously a three-step process.

 

[Animal]

Re: George L cable assembly help!

I knew I was over-complicating things. Got it working this time round. I wasn't pushing the lead far enough into the slot before. The whole "(DO NOT TAKE YOUR THUMB AND PUSH THE CABLE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SLOT!!)" freaked me out and made me hardly push it in at all.

Thanks for helping out a dummy. Now I gotta figure out what lengths I should cut up my cable into.

 

[sosomething]

Re: George L cable assembly help!

No problem! Happy to help.

I dig George L's cables. Sometimes I find the lack of capacitance results in an extra-bright tone when going straight from guitar to amp, but it's the ideal solution for pedal boards and very useful in recording set-ups as well.

 

[Animal]

Re: George L cable assembly help!

Yeh I'm not quite sure what I'll replace my guitar cable with yet. I'm using a 20 foot C.B.I. cable atm. Cost me over $50 a few year back and I guess it does the job fine, however it's too **** long for bedroom use.

Still pondering what to replace my speaker cable with also. I'm still using the same cable that was left in the back of the homemade 1x12" open back speaker cab that I bought of some guy from ebay 2 years ago. Not sure how good or bad it is when I haven't used anything else with it before.