Once you get over the initial effort of switching to surface mount and get a toaster oven/griddle setup, it can actually be quite a lot faster, especially for d

Once you get over the initial effort of switching to surface mount and get a toaster oven/griddle setup, it can actually be quite a lot faster, especially for doing stuff in quantity. Using a stencil you can quickly place paste for all components, then hand place all components and bake it. Of course finding solder bridges and debugging can become a bit tricky...