This week in guitar building we started by drawing out wire connections that we were going to make, with the proper symbols, then with pencil and the actual pieces. We then began actually soldering by making bigger potentiometers connect to ground. Then we tinned the edges of some wire to make the connections to the switch, this makes it a lot easier. I learned that when the solder isn’t shiny it means it’s a cold solder and that’s not good and that the iron oxidizes really quickly so you have to constantly clean it so you don’t get cold solders.
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