About Us

• Lava Cable produces the best possible handcrafted guitar, microphone, speaker cables using van den Hul, Vovox, TARA LABS, Kimber Kable, Zaolla, Evidence Audio, Cardas Audio, Lava Cable, Sommer, Klotz, Van Damme, Gepco, Canare, Mogami, George L's, and Gotham cable, along with Neutrik, Cardas Audio, Furutech, and G&H connectors. These cables are built to last forever to exacting military specification standards and come with a lifetime warranty. 

• The aim of Lava Cable is to provide a wide selection of the very best high-end guitar and speaker cable from around the world custom made to order every time, and to provide its customers with world-class service.

• Read about Lava Cable in the October 2006 Vintage Guitar Magazine Builders Profile: click here

  The Owner: Mark L. Stoddard

• Mark created Lava Cable in May 2004 just prior to deploying to Afghanistan.  He is a native of Santa Barbara, California and a graduate of the University of Utah, along with being a school-trained, mil spec certified electronic assembler, having worked on numerous multi-million dollar government contracts to include building every part of the AN/ALQ 184 Radar Jamming Pod currently being used on Air Force aircraft.  Mark is currently a career Army Officer stationed at Ft. Bragg North Carolina. He has spent more than 24 years in the Army, serving in Air Defense, Infantry, Logistical Support, and Special Forces units. He also has been a semi-professional guitarist and vocalist for more than 28 years. In 1995 he was named "Best Guitarist" at an all-Army battle of the bands. Mark's gear consists of a Bogner Shiva EL34 Head w/reverb and matching 1x12 cab, a Koch TwinTone II combo, Fuchs Triple Drive Supreme 50, a custom made 2x12 cabinet loaded with MojoTone BV30H speakers, a modified Mesa Boogie Mark IV combo (JJ tubes/EVM12L speaker), Clyde Deluxe Wah, Xotic BB preamp, Xotic RC Booster, Keeley Compressor, Arion Sch-Z Chorus Mod, Sweetsound Mojovibe, Tom Anderson Cobra S, and an American made Fender Stratocaster modified with Lindy Fralin pickups.

July 4, 2004 Talent Show, Kandahar, Afghanistan

                       U.S. Flag Kandahar, Afghanistan September 11, 2004