Building Pedalboards and Patch Cables?

My dad and I recently began discussing building wedge style pedalboards out of diamond plate. He works for a place that has the resources as well as the equipment (water jet) to be able to make these pedalboards. If everything works out with our first prototype we may begin selling them and may even take custom requests. Anyone have any input on what they'd like to see in a pedalboard's design?

Also aside from that I have been pondering the idea of building patch cables and selling them. I know there are a lot of sellers out there but I thought since we were building the pedalboards, I could build patch cables to bundle with the pedalboards as well as sell separately. My question on this is which cable would be the easiest, best, and wallet friendly to work with.

All patch cables will be built using GLS pancake style plugs.

Cable options so far are:
Mogami 2319
Canare GS-4/GS-6 (GS-6 in various colors)
Gepco X-Band
Lava Mini Soar
Possibly Evidence Monorail (Although it is quite expensive and not really sure where to buy in bulk)

Which would be best to use from this list? Any other suggestions?

Not looking to get rich off of this, really just a hobby and something to do in the free time.

 

Most high end pedalboards I've seen have the in/out jacks on the side but I'm not sure how those actually work. I'm assuming they are used as in from guitar and out to amp but what are the jacks connected to? I'd like to see the underbelly of a pedalboard with the in/out jacks to see how they work.

As for the holes for power cables, I've already considered this and they will be featured on the pedalboard we are currently building.

 

Thanks for the input! The top won't be diamond plate. It'll more than likely be a piece of plywood covered in velcro.

Will also be checking into other business' boards so that I can avoid any kind of infringement. It is not my intentions to copy anyone's designs. Also the selling of these boards would not be on a large scale. I am not looking to take this into a full production type of business. Just a couple of boards here and there. The selling of boards would only be to fund the building of more boards with minimal profit. Like I said this would be mainly a hobby and a way to occupy our free time.

Still interested in how the power jacks and input jacks on the side would tie into everything underneath the board.

Any input or experiences on the best cable for patch cables?

 

Looks good. Is the top made from strips of diamond plate?

 

Good job. Bet it's heavy tho right?

 

Cool!

Still looking for some input on the cable selection as well as more input on what you'd like to see in a board.