Your last part undersells how important a parts holder is. Very often soldering is a 3 handed job. Quite frequently it is a 4 handed job. Somewhat often it is e

Your last part undersells how important a parts holder is. Very often soldering is a 3 handed job. Quite frequently it is a 4 handed job. Somewhat often it is even a 5 handed job. You will save yourself a lot of weeping and gnashing of teeth and end up with much better results if you have a way to line everything up beforehand and hold it steady. Let’s couch it in real terms. You can try to attempt something poorly 20x because you can’t line things up and your hand isn’t steady and do a poor job with worse aesthetics and in 20x the time, risking damaging your part, or you can get it right the first time with ease and have it look great because everything was lined up and there was no real way that shaky hands might ruin it. I speak from personal experience here. Spend a little bit and save time, money, and sanity and get a better result.