Now I make a tonne of leads, and use them hard. They also tend to get borrowed a lot of shared gigs/festivals etc. not to mention unprepared unruly bandmates. They work hard for their living.
This cable performs just as well as most of my typically low capacitance cables and is probably a little bit more rugged at the strain relief due to a little less give in the tweed jacket. BUT...
Coiling it up after use every time is slower, more awkward, and no matter how careful you are with it, if you have to put it into a bag you ARE going to get kinks in the cable/jacket, due to it being considerably stiffer than a typical silicone insulated lead. It IS well made, and does what it is supposed to do well, it's just that the whole tweed covering is more of an inconvenience than it is beneficial - which is mostly only aesthetically anyway.
If it's for home, or the studio, or just for looks, then go for it. But if you're looking for something that's going to look great on stage, it's not going to look great for long, and you'll quickly tire of having to coil it up quite so carefully - especially if sharing a lineup that's really tight on changeover time.
So, I've retired mine for home use only. It might look great on stage, but it's not convenient enough to make me care even slightly about how a lead looks. Let's face it, that's rather pretentious, and not really visible to anybody more than 10 feet away anyhow.
