I just finished the turret board build and have a few suggestions.
Turret board soldering:
If you solder the turrets from the bottom, like Fender does, with practice you can get a nice little bubble.
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In order to do this and not go crazy, having a few work vices make it straight forward.
This image shows how I am holding the board. The wire is just sitting on top of the alligator clip, it is not clipped into it.
Apply heat to the turret from the above (your iron is on top of the work) and feed the solder into the hole. Keep an eye on the underside and stop as soon as you see it start to come out.
If you have trouble getting it hot, tin your iron and try again, I am using a pencil tip and having not problems getting good flow.
Make sure you pull back an extra 1/4 of cloth or the solder will bubble around the side and down the component lead.
Also, there are a few wires that you install but don't solder right away, these will fall out every time you flip the board so just set them and the pages they belong to aside until it is time to solder that turret.
Clean your iron every time you put it back.
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Get a ruler:
Get a ruler and just keep it right in front of you, every page has a "Cut X length of wire" on it.