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Guitar Patch Cable

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How much do you think it will cost to fix my guitar?

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basically, its just to solder one wire. the guitar is an epiphone les paul standard, and you know where you plug in your patch chord? i know that there is one wire with two ends that contacts that certain part that touches the end of the cable. i plugged in my guitar and it made fuzzy sounds as if you were touching the end of the cable with your fingers. i opened it up and one of the connections came of. i held it back in place with my fingers and my guitar sounded normal, but if i let the loose wire come off, it would sound fuzzy again. so i know that has to be done, but i've never soldered wires before, and i don't own a solder for small wires like that. so i'm just wondering how much do you think it would cost to solder that one wire? should i bring it to a music store, or should i just buy my own solderer and do it myself?

thanks

It shouldn't cost much either way - maybe $20 at a guitar store, or less than $8 if you buy a soldering iron and solder. I think you should do it yourself, since it's just a good, practical skill to have. Wires often come loose in guitars and it's nice if you can fix the problem in five minutes, rather than hauling the guitar to a store. When I was traveling with my band, we'd keep a soldering iron with us for minor repairs. It saved us a small fortune, since we would have otherwise been replacing cables and paying guitar store personnel to repair input jacks right and left.

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