We even solder the output jack...

octatonic

Brilliant.

ICBM

FelineGuitars said:

They should have just soldered the wires to the jack, trimmed them to a good length to work with and tinned the other ends and the back of the pot (and not soldered them to the pot) . 

Then the player has just 2 solder joints to make which is about the least work that you would have to do

For people with a typical underpowered soldering iron, soldering to the pot is much harder than soldering to the jack, so I would leave the jack end unconnected.

Although you can make the pot easy to do by bridging the ground terminal to the pot body with a wire instead of soldering it directly, and then soldering the jack wire to the terminal instead of the pot body...

imalone

A terminal block for connecting the socket maybe?
Though I'm puzzled by this, it so clearly doesn't work that you'd think someone would have noticed by now, so is there something we're missing?