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I hate when I need to solder jack positive(red color cabel) in angle and not straight.

Hard to get right. Smaller cabel breaks easily and thicker cabel bends badly.

I almost made working piezo pickup for my classical guitar. When I was installing the closed jack in guitar the soldered red cable broked because it was on angel.

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Permalink Reply by howellhudson on October 23, 2011 at 11:34am

You're not holding your mouth right. Squint one eye and stick out your tongue a little bit -- and you should be able to solder it just fine.

Seems like the basis of the "Soldering Blues" to me.

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