I’ve been looking for a solution to the millions of cables I have lying around the studio.
From USB to Sata to XLR to DVI to HDMI to extension cables/cords of all sorts I have a mess that makes Medusa look like Jean-Luc Picard.
The standard studio solution is a piece of metal, bent at a 90 degree angle, with lots of slits. Most retailers want upwards of $20 for this $1 piece of flimsy steel.
One can easily enough craft one out of scrap wood (simply cut a bunch of 1/4” slits in a board), but I am hoping for something a little more interesting.
Points to this guy for making one out of a spring stretched on a piece of molding. Probably my favorite of the online solutions I found, if for nothing else than innovation and using scraps he found laying around (he actually scavenged the spring from inside an old scanner –looks kind of like the same sort of spring that would pull grandma’s screen door shut).
I actually bought a bunch of hose hangers from Harbor Freight a couple of months ago when they were on sale for $.99 a piece thinking I’d use them to hang cables, but even mounted in an “x” pattern I’ve decided they’re too bulky and take up too much wall real estate, so they’re going in the garage and shed (for their intended purpose: hoses and extensioncords).
So for now I may try the stretched spring approach or break down and just cut a bunch of slits in a board or three. In the meantime, hopefully some kind, inventive soul will come along and post a glorious solution in the comments.
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