Any affordable compact right angle plugs for DIY patches?

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Any affordable compact right angle plugs for DIY patches?

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I've got pancake plugs on my homemade patches that are fantastically low profile and unobtrusive except for pedals with absurdly tight jack spacing, particularly if you actually want to use the stereo functionality of a pedal. (I'm looking at you, Zoom and T.C.!)

So I'm looking around at what is out there so I can make some new patch cables up so I can get as much stereo use out of all my pedals as possible.

The standard shape of non-pancake right-angle soldered plugs (GLS, Switchcraft, generic), while compact at the angle, have a barrel as long as the plug after the turn--seems like trading one annoyance for another. But cheap-ish--I can source them at $1 a pop, maybe better.

I'm really skeptical of solder-less, but the usual right-angle plug heads are beautifully compact. Wrinkle is I've spotted a Lava plug that's optional to solder, but over $5 a pop--ouch! Am I missing anything like this that's (at least somewhat) affordable in bulk?
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This I'm interested in. I change my board too much to spend money on the cable kits. :lol:
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Get rid of the jacks and hardwire the board! (not really)

Maybe find a right angle jack adapter that you can offset the pancake ones like this on the tight jacks: http://www.markertek.com/product/spfs-s ... tereo-male
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This thread is relevant to my interests. Cheap and small would be cool.
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George L's work with everything, for me. I don't think anything else is smaller. They're too expensive (hello Donner, please clone them) but you can find them used sometimes (I've bought a bunch at Talk Bass in the past, you just gotta lurk for a while.)
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