Custom Shop Builds
I make the parts of a rig that never come the way you need them: custom cable packages, fly packs and pre-wired racks, breakout and patch panels, adaptors and turnarounds, whole show packages. Cut, wired, labeled, and tested in the shop, then sent to you.
Send a build list or a rack layout, and get back a labeled, tested build that's ready to patch
Every build has the same story — a touring show, a studio fit-out, an office AV closet. The order says "BNC cable" and back come a pile of identical coils, all the same length, none of them the one the rack actually wants.
So the crew burns load-in dressing slack, taping loops under the desk, and hand-writing labels that are gone by strike — or a month into a permanent install. Then nothing matches the paperwork, and you're stuck tracing cables when time is limited.
I build the other way: every piece the size and shape it needs to be, labeled at the shop, coiled and counted so what ships matches your list. Same logic on a rack, a patch panel, or a one-off adaptor — made to your measurements, not to whatever was on the shelf.
The common builds are below. If it carries signal and terminates in a connector — loose cable or tied into a rack — it's probably on the table. Let me know what you need.
Finished, IDed, and tested before it leaves the shop, so it shows up ready to patch in. The install is yours, but I'm just a phone call away if you need guidance.
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You give me the run list, I cut to it. No rounding up to the nearest stock length, no slack you have to hide.
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Self-laminating wire labels — printed ID with a clear laminate tail wrapped over the text so it survives load-in, strike, a season on the road, or a decade in a wall. Your numbering scheme, both ends.
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Every cable continuity- and signal-checked, coiled, and inventoried. The packing list matches what's in the case.
Bulk runs are the norm, not the exception. I've supplied upwards of two hundred custom cables for one show — cut, adapted, labeled, and tested to a single spec sheet. Give me lead time and the count isn't the problem.
However you keep it — spreadsheet, rack drawing, or a photo of a legal pad. If it has types, lengths, connectors, and ends, I can quote it. Everything is built in the shop and shipped to you, and rack freight gets sorted case by case. Need me on site for the show itself? That's live engineering, and I'm happy to talk about it.
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Signal types, lengths, connector ends, panel layouts, and your label scheme. Rough is fine — I'll come back with questions.
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Itemized by build, with a lead time. Cable, connectors, panels, adaptors, labeling, and testing all in the number.
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Fabricated, labeled both ends, tested, coiled, and counted against a packing list. Drops straight into the rack, ready for your install.
Email the build list or the rack layout, along with the date you need it. There's no minimum order and no account manager, just me.