I used a woodburning kit we had around fpr my first soldering attempts, at age 11. It was only when I actually got better that I realized not only that my.solder joints were awful, but the untinned woodburning iron was not the right tool.
But I suspect my bad soldering wasn’t the onky reason those first few projects didn’t work. I had no skill at troubleshooting, the parts I got may not have been the same pinout (or even good substitutes) and I knew so little that I’d not know abiut tyese things.
But you have to start somewhere.
