It's hard to know what's real or not. I'm sure the passage of 4 decades plus hasn't sharpened details any. In the 8bitguy comments a guy said that Woz was wrong about nothing going on in the garage because he wasn't there most of the time, and claimed Chuck Peddle stated that he witnessed tons of hand soldering and assembly going on. But I also see on the Apple 1 registry a blanket statement that all boards were wave soldered.
I'd love to know more about this claim that Chuck Peddle had any inside knowledge of what was happening at Apple. So far as I'm aware he never worked there and I can't offhand think of any source I've read that he had anything to do with them. I mean, the guy worked for MOS and then Commodore; I guess it's conceivable that he at some point in his capacity of a MOS engineer made a visit to Apple's facilities, they were after all a "Customer"...
... Okay, here:
https://theamphour.com/241-an-interv...ng-coryphaeus/
Start around the 33 minute mark. (found by randomly scrubbing around) Apparently he and Woz have somewhat different recollections about a meeting where Chuck showed up in a consulting role to help them work out issues with the pre-production Apple I; Woz apparently claims that Peddle showed up all straightlaced in a suit and a hat and blawblawblaw and tried to sell him stuff while Chuck says it was an informal technical troubleshooting visit to the garage, during which he actually helped them out.
At this point I have to drag this unpopular opinion I have about Woz: people love him, and I get why, but so far as I'm concerned he's an unreliable narrator when it comes to the history of personal computers. And as part of that he has a bad habit of trashing other people's contributions (which is a tendency he's had going back to interviews he gave in the 1980's, it isn't a new thing). This leaves me inclined to believe Chuck's recollection of this particular incident, and it's in large part because I can't imagine Woz wanting to admit that he ever needed any help.
(The tone of his autobiography is consistently self-aggrandizing to the point of absurdity; to accept his narrative you basically have to accept that the companies that were making microprocessors had essentially started cargo-cult-style manufacturing mysterious artifacts that fell from outer space without knowing what they were or that they could be used to build a computer before he came along and had this AMAZING IDEA.)
That said, I don't think this says anything about how the production Apple Is were churned out; this incident clearly predates mass production, and in this interview at least Peddle says the next time he ran into the Steve-s was... significantly later. (He kind of wanders off in another direction for a big chunk.)