How to Solder Strat & Tele Switches - Guitar Soldering Course Lesson 4

In this video, Radioshop's Paul Best shows you how to solder to the prongs on Tele and Strat style switches. There'll be another video on this subject in the future of the series concentrating on how to solder two wires into one prong - keep your eyes peeled and ring the bell for notifications!
We'll also have a video coming soon exploring Gibson style switches. Lots to come!
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[@paullightfoot6020]

LOVE your lessons! My soldering skills have been abysmal, and scary, worrying that I'm going to stuff it up. Too much solder, trying to get the back of a Potentiometer hot enough for solder to adhere to it, to building a mountainous mess of too much solder and probably destroying the potentiometer with too much heat from the soldering iron lol. Now after watching these, I feel much more confident. Thank you so much!

[@m.i.stapes]

I bought some pickups from y’all. 1st time trying something like this. Thanks for these videos.

[@buschovski1]

thanks for this man. I was replacing some wires on a super switch and god it was difficult. it was the location of the two lugs I had to connect. I finally connected this ONE wire after failing countless times.

[@sammm700]

brilliant. this is exactly what i need to do., course has been excellent

[@aahmed8239]

Brilliant video lessons 👏 👍 Many thanks

[@chrisday5341]

Thanks for this man! Excellent series so far.

[@timgabrielsen5650]

Thanks that was very helpful

[@Exit111]

Can you solder wire to the hot wire of a pickup if you need to make the hot wire of the pickup longer?
Outstanding videos, big help, thank you.

[@latheofheaven1017]

I'm just about to replace my Strat PUP switch. The factory-wired switch was full-on hook-around connected. I couldn't unsolder the connections to remove the wires. No choice but to snip.

[@johnnydingo8680]

Almost professional 😊

[@NobotyBoi]

Do you solder the jumpers through the lugs or on top? And does it matter?

[@thexvw7009]

Great video, I think you'll find that NASA recommend the mechanical method in their soldering specification 😉

[@fearnpol4938]

NASA don’t have a soldering specification they use IPC and have done since 2011.
But yes going through the hole is the only way acceptable professionally.

[@EverythingisFire]

What wire is used for, uh, bridging the two sides of the selector?

[@fearnpol4938]

Three issues if you are to solder these joints correctly, you have too much solder on the wire and way too much on the tab, the wire should be cut to length before it is soldered in place.
Doing so gives a nice clean joint where you can clearly see all the strands of wire and the individual parts, snipping to length also means the joint is smooth after it is made.

[@spencerwsmith]

I just ruined a switch. How do you keep solder from dripping down into the switch? (a switch that already has solder in it).

[@Nazman06]

The hook cant make it that much harder to remove. unless you have weenie arms