Welding Tips and Tricks

Hi all,
I am a Senior in Agriculture Education at West Virginia University. I have a lot of experience with stick, Mig, Oxy-Acetylene and actually assisted in teaching the welding classes related to my college major at WVU and I am just jumping into Tig. I managed to teach my wife everything I know and we run our own a horseshoe art business where we weld horseshoes to make sculptures and spell out name and signs. We both love welding and learning more about it. I love welding tips and tricks.com it has helped me so much as I have begun Tig and showed me some tricks for getting better at Mig and stick. I'll shut up now.
Looking forward to learning more,
Matt

Welcome to the show. All comers welcome here. Feel free to post any questions and photos you have.

Mick

Do you have any pics of your horse shoe art?
I'd love to see some pic's
I've done a little horse shoe art....
looking forward,
John

AKweldshop wrote:Do you have any pics of your horse shoe art?
I'd love to see some pic's

whoops, didn't see your website link
that's some nice work, the possibilities are endless
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Matt welcome to the forum.

Thanks everyone, and John thanks for sharing your pictures. My wife and I started making horseshoe art last September when I taught her how to weld. We have found that the possibilities are truly endless. We are actually paying rent on our apartment at college with the money we make off of the horseshoe art.
Matt

Here is another one of our custom signs. This is for one of my former employers and again is made entirely of horseshoes.

mcoe wrote:Thanks everyone, and John thanks for sharing your pictures.
Matt

Matt, those AREN'T my pictures!!!! They are just some pics I found on the Web.
I thought they were cool so I put a link up for you guys to see....
All I've ever made is coat hangers
sorry for the misunderstanding, thanks, John

We make plenty of coat hangers. We have made a bunch in all sorts of shapes and sizes. Our largest one was about 10 hooks long and on a barn board our horses kicked off the barn. Thanks for sharing the pictures anyways, even if they weren't yours. If you find an idea that you like and dont want to tackle yourself we are willing to work with everyone who has an idea they want to see become real. Just visit our website below and check some of our stuff out.

Matt

love this one very creative....


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Well thank you. That was a Christmas gift for my sister and brother-in-law. He is a pipe welder and has about 20 different pairs of boots laying around so we thought we would help him organize his favorite pairs. We are working on a stacked rack. We are headed to our farriers house tomorrow to get a truck load of shoes so we will see if we can't play around and make one and share it.
Matt

Matt, I'll bet very few, even here, know the difference between a blacksmith and a farrier.

You're the first person I've seen use the word on this forum, to my recollection!

Steve S

Well Steve since I know how welders think, here is my welders definition of a farrier for those who don't know. A farrier is the over paid person who nails horseshoes to the horses feet.

mcoe wrote:Well Steve since I know how welders think, here is my welders definition of a farrier for those who don't know. A farrier is the over paid person who nails horseshoes to the horses feet.

LMAO!

Perfect...

That sums it up, for someone who's never even tried to inspect a shoe on a horse.

I'm no farrier, but I know how to inspect a shoe, and I've replaced a missing nail or two...

Steve S

Hey,

I looked a display at a historical exhibit yesterday , of "corrective shoes" for horses, it never crossed my mind that these would be required. Just another tid bit of info to add to the memory bank.

Mick

@Mick,
This may sound far fetched but my great grandfather was a teamster and had 19 teams of horses working in our area at one time. He would adjust their back like a chiropractor so they would pull straight. I was told that he could look at how a horse would stand and favor a leg and know if it needed it's spine manipulated. He was a big man and I'm sure that came in handy trying to crack a workhorse's back.

I have a picture somewhere of him in the middle of the Allegheny river north of Pittsburgh on the ice with a wagon load of coal. The horses were fitted with ice cleats to cross the river because the nearest bridge was miles down river. They would also cross the same place in the middle of summer when the river was low, there were no dams on the river then.

Crazy were this forum takes my thoughts some days.

Len

Hey,

Not far fetched at all, good driver (?) and horse teams are one sweetly oiled machine.

Mick