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Part of the video series: How to Attempt Circuit Bending on a Toy Guitar

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Summary: Learn how to solder on a toy guitar in this free video series that will help you understand how and when to utilize this unique way of making music.

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How to Solder for Circuit Bending

AMANDA CLAIRE: So I don't have to start around and plug in right now because I'm just going to talk a little bit about the theory of how you do good soldering. So generally, remember what you're doing is your melting a low-melting-point metal, which is your solder, and you're getting it liquid so that you can dab it where you need so that you're completing the connection between the copper, the stripped copper ends of a wire, and your component, and then when that metal cools, it will harden up and then you have a permanent joint. So--but the way you do it properly is to actually--what you want to do is you want to heat the component and so it gets hot enough so that that component is basically as hot as your soldering iron is, and then you touch the solder to the component and just sort of let it flow over it. So some people who are kind a beginning at soldering what they will do is still sort of melt the solder on to the soldering iron and then take that blob over and just sort of dab it there, but that blob is not really going to stick to the metal until the metal itself is hot so really the better way to do it is to hold the iron to the piece of metal so like if I was--this iron is not plugged in right now, but I would hold it to this terminal here of this jack until it gets really really hot, and then when its hot enough all I've got to do is touch a tip of the solder there and it will just flow very cleanly over that terminal and then you're done, and that's a very nice clean way to solder.

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