Soldering Input Jack Stratocaster

This is on a fender stratocaster but example can be used on any electric guitar.

Soldering input jack stratocaster.

An output jack has only two connections. Once it was hot enough i went into the body of the guitar and heated up the existing solder that the two wires were attached to. 4 begin soldering the wire you will do this by applying the blip along with solder to the wire that requires repair. 5 now solder the wire and lug and once the solder has been applied to the wire it will be time to re attach the wire to the lug.

Soldering station solder type my preferred type hakko fx888d 23by digit. A hot wire coming from the pickups and a wire connected to ground. 3 i fired up my soldering iron. Our first piece of the action with the soldering iron will be soldering the input jack.

Now would be a good time to get your soldering iron. Use your dominant hand to hold the soldering iron while your other hand controls the solder. The hot wire red needs to be attached to the outside lug while the ground joins to the inside lug. Switches volume and tone pots and pickups are fastened to the guitar with pickup rings nuts screws and locking washers connected to each other.

A detailed step by step on wiring your stratocaster input jack and ground wiring. How to re solder your input jack in your electric guitar. We are aiming to connect the 2 electrical wires hot and ground to the two lugs on the output jack. I then pulled those wires out and did the same to the jack.

I heated up the solder on the input jack and freed those wires up.