Fender Deluxe Patch Cable Angle 90cm

This looks and feels like an excellent cable, especially for this price, and the specifications certainly reflect that (although, it would be great to know the capacitance value, which is one of the most important characteristics of an instrument cable), but I have one reservation regarding its durability: what concerns me is that I do not see any heat-shrink tubing extending beyond the plug housings. On most cables, it is there to provide some strain relief as well as to prevent the braided outer sleeve from unraveling. Of course, the latter might be accomplished with a shorter length heat-shrink tubing inside the plug housings, but I have seen some photographic evidence of these cables having unraveled. For the vast majority of people, this cable will probably hold up just fine (the overwhelmingly positive reviews attest to that), but for somebody as clumsy as myself, it is better to be safe than sorry and get the most reliable cable possible.