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Fundamental Soldering Skills
DVD-R Format

Price: $19.95

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The Project
This video is focused on electric guitars, but will give you the fundamental concepts to do any kind of electronic soldering.

This instructional video covers the concepts and techniques necessary to do a professional solder job. I understand the plight of the working musician and hobbyist. I have taken guitars into my shop that were damaged by an inexperienced solder job. Soldering is not something you simply learn by watching. You need to understand the physics concepts of solder, flux, and heat. Once the concept is clear, soldering is easy.

The Video
This DVD video uses a stunning close-up birds-eye-view camera angle on the actual solder demonstrations. Animations are used to illustrate the physics of soldering. These are actual frame grabs from the DVD.

Scenes from Video

Birds-Eye-View

Animations

Tool Advice

Wiring and Soldering a Standard Telecaster

 

Solder & Flux Explained
Learn about eutectic composition and the role of flux.

Wire Tinning
The importance of wire tinning explained and demonstrated.

Tools and Materials
A review of soldering and electronic assembly/repair tools.

Thermal Bridge Concept and Solder Physics
Learn the key fundamentals for professional soldering.

Standard Telecaster Wiring Demonstrated
The complete wiring and soldering job of a Standard Telecaster guitar is demonstrated on the video. These techniques can be applied to any electric guitar.

Repair of a Boss Stomp Box
A resistor is replaced on a stompbox circuit board. Learn the soldering skill for circuit boards. Make your own Stompbox mods.

Repair of a Guitar Cord
Step by step instruction on repairing a broken guitar cord.

DVD Format
The project was produced in digital video and is available on DVD-R only. To save the cost of duplication fees, the DVD-R recordable format was chosen. What is DVDR?? Please check your DVD player manual of check here to see if your DVD player can play DVD-R.

DVD Chapters
This DVD makes full use of DVD chapters. This allows you to quickly get random access to any segment of the video. You can set your DVD player to repeat any section. This ends the task of rewinding the old VHS tape to only hope you get close to what you want to see.

Reference Material
The purchase of this DVD comes with a link to a web page that has a PDF file of the Standard Telecaster Wiring Diagram, actual size template for precut wires, and links for various solder, flux, soldering tools and materials.

9 DVD Chapters

1. Introduction
2. Solder & Flux
3. Tools & Materials
4. Soldering Iron Tip Care
5. Thermal Bridge Concept
6. Wire Tinning & Solder Physics
7. Basic Wiring & Soldering
8. Wiring and Soldering a Standard Telecaster
9. De-soldering

Running time: 43 minutes


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