The Solder Monster’s long arms reach into your guitar cavity

The Solder Monster has escaped from the StewMac workshop!

We created the Solder Monster for our own use in making Golden Age hand-wired pickguards. We needed to hold small parts and large pickguards at any angle while venting away solder fumes.

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[mikeward]

$167?? Seems SUPER steep. Looks like I'm building my own!

[headknocker]

Yeah for $167 I could hire a assistant to hold the parts for me.. Make your own..

[toddflowers]

Interesting use of flexible air lines.

[CeeKayzrz]

I think a better fume pump idea would be to use a small, efficient, QUIET, aquarium air pump instead of a huge, noisy, totally overkill ShopVac(R)....

Now, you will have to make a tip that creates a vacuum, as aquarium pumps >push< air as opposed to >pulling< air, but vacuum science is actually really quite easy... Just blow the aquarium pump air through an unrestricted channel, and then accompany that channel with the fume removal line, in a sort of Y-pipe design... That ought to create enough negative pressure in the line to start 'sucking up' soldering fumes on the other end... Just like how a vacuum cleaner creates a vacuum! :)

Plus, you'll get a nice quiet humming sound, instead of a rather loud blower motor sound from your

Also, almost $200 seems a bit steep for a box I could build myself with $50 and a trip to Harbor Freight... :S

[stringbassist]

Looks amazing! Complete overkill for the hobbyist, but in a large shop I can see it being invaluable.

[stocchinet]

Ok i'm definitaly going to build one of these

[Andluth]

What is the red guitar in the background? Thx

[cast]

At the end of the video all I keep thinking is C H I L L E R theater.

[Wicksguitarshopofficial]

I don’t know what to think of this. It’s a reach.. it’s a low.. it’s a thing someone who has worked on guitars/amps for years beyond me doesn’t need. Pure consumerism😘

[MikeScammon]

Sorry, this is seriously over-priced, even for stewmac. There are great helping hands for $40 on Amazon that have heavy billet bases and the same articulating arms.

[ORDERSTU]

should've called it the solderoctopus

[Jaidezilla]

Coolest device I've seen in a long time. How much?

[ViaticalTree]

Incoming "it's not SODDER" comments. Funny how people seem to forget that some words are pronounced differently in different parts of the world.

[imranatheistformer-muslim]

It's great for a Luthier or someone who solders a lot but not for a regular guitarist or hobbyist. Too expensive and uses up space for someone who solders once in a while

[remley]

Damn! A StewMac tool that IS actually worth the money!

[MarioinRmd]

The actual layout of the tool was likely devised by the StewMac 'inventor, ' however the meat of this concept, using hydraulic lines in this manner has been around for a long time, and is not a StewMac invention. Way too steep. Most people make their own. It's easy.

[tabaks]

It's invented by Chinese, marked up by you.

[neutrodyne]

I like Stewmac but for me after 41 years of working in a music store as an electronics repair tech, I can say that this would probably be one of those things that would get used one time and then it would be put on a shelf and forgotten about. A good tech would find that it took more time in setting this thing up than it would to just solder the wires on. Having said this I give it a thumbs down.

[Snowy]

Incoming comments from people that only use dollar store tools. .