Welding Tips and Tricks

These were done while I was in school back in the spring. Freehand plasma cutting (of course i drew on the design first, i'm not that talented lol). Just figured I'd share. They still need to go in a box with some translucent colored glass behind them and a light with switch (kinda like a bar sign). When that finally gets done, i'll post pics again. Elvis was for my dad, him being an Elvis fan . . . he has the plate, won't give it up, told me bring the box with light and all when it's done lol. The blues brothers . . . well, just cuz they are cool. That one needs a little fixing and touching up. The Elvis one I ended up taking the dremel to after just to smooth out lines and get some of those finer areas the plasma I was using in school couldn't do, but at point pic shown was taken that wasn't done yet. Had so many people that wanted to buy them when they were done, but these aren't for sale . . . Next purchase I think will be a plasma cutter lol.

I have seen people get pretty creative with a plasma torch. These are two door plates I made for my buddies bar, Most of the cutting was free-hand. These are 400 series stainless. I am a bit rusty on my airbrush skills but my friend really liked them so that's all that matters. Sell whatever you can....helps pay for the tools...I mean toys.

Way to put me to shame, those are some nice pieces of work! Having my own plasma cutter is still I the future, but not far off. First is compressor and suitable size tank, on that I won't have to upgrade later if a need ever arises for air carbon arc. So many "tools" to buy, I'll need to sell some goods.

Did you cut those letters out as well? What material? Fine work. My airbrush skills are non-existent.

Drunken Moose wrote:Way to put me to shame, those are some nice pieces of work! Having my own plasma cutter is still I the future, but not far off. First is compressor and suitable size tank, on that I won't have to upgrade later if a need ever arises for air carbon arc. So many "tools" to buy, I'll need to sell some goods.

Did you cut those letters out as well? What material? Fine work. My airbrush skills are non-existent.

Lol...I didn't post to shame you, just to show what can be done with the torch. I hand cut everything. I hand cut a template for the horseshoe so I could make them both the same size but the letters I just drew onto a sheet of plate and started cutting, same with the horse.. fortunately he wanted them to be very rustic and he didn't care if they were the same. These were copied off of his lunch menu. All of this was 400 series stainless. It was a freakin nightmare to tig weld all these togther as the metal had a galvanized coating that I ground off but it was impregnated and every time I tried to weld it, that shit would jump onto my tungsten like a magnet and flash and spit and it just didn't want to weld.

No worries, I didn't take it as trying to shame me. You have experience and it shows, and be proud!

I've been around, and in my past (and present work) it has taught me to be thick skinned. Offending me is damn near impossible. Now i'm just a cranky middle aged bugger learning some new tricks and move on to the next part of life. About the only person who can offend me is myself.

Not sure if there is a thread of projects like this, but would love to see more of hand cut stuff if anybody has pics.

Mcoe does some pretty dope work

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