Welding 101
For some time now I've wanted to try sculpting outdoor pieces of steel. And, well over a year ago, I bought a wire welder for the purpose. I finally took it out of the box yesterday and gave this hot wired Lincoln a test drive.
It ain't as easy as it looks, folks.
I had visited a metal fabrication company last week and picked up some odd pieces -- triangles, hexagons, squares, rectangles, circles, etc. -- from the scrap barrel to make my first piece, a bottle tree. I've now welded the first four of about twenty sections and the welds are butt ugly. It will probably take three hours of grinding the welds for every one hour of making them.
Think I'll just paint this thing flat black and hope no one notices how the pieces are connected.
Practice, as they say, makes perfect.
And, hope springs eternal.
It ain't as easy as it looks, folks.
I had visited a metal fabrication company last week and picked up some odd pieces -- triangles, hexagons, squares, rectangles, circles, etc. -- from the scrap barrel to make my first piece, a bottle tree. I've now welded the first four of about twenty sections and the welds are butt ugly. It will probably take three hours of grinding the welds for every one hour of making them.
Think I'll just paint this thing flat black and hope no one notices how the pieces are connected.
Practice, as they say, makes perfect.
And, hope springs eternal.
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