Confirmed - I hate soldering guitars

I managed to suss out what was wrong with the wiring in the guitar. One wire soldered to the wrong tag on a pot. It worked fine, just not quite the way I wanted it to. So how long would you estimate to disconnect one wire and re-solder to the next tag?

5 minutes? Ha!

It took the best part of an hour. First, all the wires came off the tag, but remained soldered together. I got them separated, and then cursed and fiddled trying to get the one that was supposed to be on there back in place.

Then solder the errant wire to the correct tag, which already has another 3 wires on it. But, instead of the new wire soldering into place, it pops back off and all the solder drops down and solidifies across tag and pot casing. Under normal circumstances I can never get solder to hold to the post casing.

Now all wires have to come off, and I have to try and clean off all the solder. At least now the tag is clear of solder and has a nice big hole into which I can wedge all four wires. A drop of solder on top and it's all done.

Except that I screw down the finished pickguard and now the jack socket won't fit. It turns out that I haven't given the wire running through to the jack socket enough play to get out of the way. Off comes the pickguard again, the wire gets shifted and on goes the pickguard and jack socket. Hooray!

What's this! The jack won't plug into the socket! Now the wire is blocking the jack.

One more tweak and it's done. Tests OK with a tuning fork over the pickups, but I won't really know how it sounds until I get the strings on. And that won't happen until I finish off the headstock and widen the nut slots.