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Check on YouTube for some tutorials. Look after your tips. Get some solder and just practice, it's dead easy once you understand what to do.
I'd recommend going for a slightly better soldering iron. I bought a cheap one off Amazon but soon upgraded to an Antex iron for £35 which is worth every penny.
Also buy a good pair of detail glasses!
As for "when am I ready?" You'll never be ready. It works in reverse, you become ready by doing it. - pmbomb
Easy..... No need for any fancy soldering iron.
Most beginners male the mistake of trying to use the solder like glue to make a joint but it's a case of heating the work joint and the solder flows onto the joint. Clean your tip, tin your tip, tin both parts to be joined and then apply heat so solder wants to flow onto the joint.
CPC sell a Duratool station for £52 that's ok
https://cpc.farnell.com/duratool/d03168/60w-soldering-station/dp/SD02124?st=durotool soldering station
yet 10 years later I struggled at home doing a simple joint - guess it must of been the cheap/underpowered soldering iron I had bought. Think I’ll bin it and buy a better recommended one.
The suggestion further back for beginners to watch an instructional video is a really good idea too.
Obtain some old electronic PCBs (old VHS players, TVs etc. before surface mount chips) and practice unsoldering components.
When you can remove bits without destroying the PCB tracks try soldering components back in...
You'll know when you've got good at it - joints will be shiny, flow well and be quickly made.
Next have a go at some jack and XLR cables...
Don't 'push' with the soldering iron. When you are starting out there is a natural tendency to use too much force to somehow try to force the solder to melt. As long as you have good contact just be patient and allow the heat to flow.
Other tip. If you are working on your kitchen table make sure that you have something underneath to protect the surface. It may be a 5 minute job but you might just catch the lead of the iron causing it to fall out of the stand and onto the table. It may only be a small mark but wives have eyes like shithouse rats and will spot this immediately and then hold this against you for the next 6 1/2 years even though you have since replaced the table. Or so I'm told.
I had to get the iron out last night to repair my headphones. I must have repaired these about half a dozen times (flexing of the headphones causes the wire to break close to the solder joint). Even replacing a wire, which no longer long enough due to previous repair, took about 15 minutes from getting the tools out to packing away. It made me think what would have happened if I couldn't solder? Do people throw stuff away? I'm sure that anyone doing commercial repairs would have a minimum charge that may make these sort of repairs prohibitively expensive.
https://www.lidl.co.uk/en/p/diy-projects/parkside-soldering-station/p39663