How To Solder Guitar Wiring

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How to solder guitar wiring. By joint I mean the wire and the solder lug or the wire and the back of the pot or whatever it is youre soldering. Strip the end of your new wire and solder the tip. Too much exposed wire can contact ground wires shielded pickup wires or hot wires.

Invite a small desk fan to join the party. For working with guitar wiring all you need is a 30-watt handheld soldering iron preferably with a chisel tip. How To Solder.

Just expose enough wire for soldering usually 116 to 18. Solder your pickups hot conductor to the pigtail inner conductor and solder your pickups ground wire to the outer shield of the pigtail. Run the solder over the entire splice so it can melt and travel into the gaps between the wires.

Photo 8 Gently press the irons hot tip against the joint to heat it before you bring the solder into the equation. Both wires need to be connected to the output jack for the signal to come out of the amp. Resist the temptation to blow on the solder to hasten the process.

Try to make each wire the same length as the original. You might find it easier to use a tie wrap to hold the wires together while soldering. When heat is applied to solder it melts and goes to a liquid state.

If you wired your guitar the way it is in Fig 4 it would work correctly and there would be no ground loop to act as an antenna for noise. Repeat this process on each lug. 1 The first step to soldering your guitar input is to begin preheating the soldering iron this usually takes 3-5 minutes.