Jeese dude. Way to slam folks who make cables. I myself have everyone's home brew cables (with the exception of Nick-You're next I pr omise Nick!) I can say they have all performed awesome. Not one issue with any of them. Ever. I disagree with your post. If it was all about just the soldering Busman would be the best as he is a master. JMO.
Those people that really care about making a quality product are few and far between.
At some point on this board people need to be honest about some things and calling the cable makers products identical is just bullshit. Truth.
You know, this is pretty insane. You are acting like the cable manufacturers on this website are a bunch of hacks that are too incompetent to build quality cables. Look at all the plaudits that each designer has received from their customers. Every manufacturer here has their share of support from others on this site that like the cables that X person has built for them. Or do all of these satisfied customers not know what they are looking at either?
My impression of the guys who build cables for others on this site is that they are not a bunch of idiots like Daryan who are learning as they go and sell their "work in progress" to others, only to (literally, in the case of some of Daryan's cables) blow up in their faces. While they may not be as technically skilled as Chris Johnson, Doug Oade, or Drew Baird to design and build their own equipment, they are more than qualified to build some microphone cables. They care about their customers and all want to further the ultimate goal of having higher and higher quality recordings in the community. They contribute to this end by building high-quality cables for tapers.
And if you don't want to patronize the cable makers on this board, fine, go elsewhere. I chose to go with Moon Audio because of their design and the high quality of components used. Although, having just purchased some very nice cables from Nick, I figure that if given the the exact same type of cable and components that Drew from Moon Audio uses, Nick could assemble it just as well.
BTW, does Matt even build cables anymore? I contacted him a while ago about building me a cable and he responded by saying that he was taking a break for a while. I went with Nick instead and am very happy with the results.