Instead he picks up a bit of the solder glob on the end of a toothpick and applies it to each pad. This isn’t really as bad as it sounds. The fine pitch TQFP footprints can just be dragged with ...

This particular guide is aimed at one-off assembly so a solder paste stencil is not used (we learned a lot about those earlier in the month). It instead uses the painstaking toothpick application ...