Gavitt Wire, Shielded Push Back, 22 AWG Stranded

Cloth push back wire, 22AWG. This type of wire is sometimes called push back wire because its textile insulation can be pushed back rather than stripped. That said, we prefer to strip it. Price shown is per foot, add as many feet to your cart as you'd like. If you add 50 feet or more, 20% will be deducted from the price. If you add 100 feet or more, 30% will be deducted (this will happen for shoppers on our website, but not shoppers on eBay or Reverb, due to software limitations). This is the wire that Gibson has used on many guitars since the 1940s. If you're not familiar with braided wire, it's coaxial, meaning that the inner conductor that carries the signal is surrounded by braid that is connected to ground. The braid acts as shielding against extraneous sources of EMI/RFI (radio signals, magnetic fields, etc.), behaving as a force field (you know, like in Star Trek!) to intercept these noise sources and shunt them to ground so they don't get into the signal. Gibson used this wire