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(More customer reviews)This is a good book for ideas. It shows what can be done with lightweight steel stock and a few metal working tools. The pictures are high quality.
However, the projects are poorly done. In a book like this, I expected to see professional looking welds with nice regular beads. Instead they look like pigeon droppings - the sort of thing one might expect from a rank beginner. Nor is this just a matter of appearance, some of the welds just look unsound with poor penetration and fusion. There is no attempt to design the projects so that the welds are out of sight and these are not the kind of projects where the look of the welds adds to the overall appearance, especially since they are so poorly executed. Some of the projects involve scrolled flat stock. The scrolls are not done well. Curves are misshapen, the ends have flat spots from the bender and matched pairs are glaringly assymetric. All these problems could have been corrected by taking a just little more time with the work. Many of the projects leave sharp corners in positions where they could cause a nasty gash if one were to bump into them.
I am left wondering if the author actually knows how to weld and whether she would have any of these items in her own home.
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Artisan Welding Projects brings together project designs and complete directions for building 25 innovative, never-before-published metal-work projects. This book takes solid aim at growing numbers of amateur welding and blacksmith enthusiasts who are taking up the hobby as inexpensive yet full-featured welding equipment becomes widely available. It features the latest in welding equipment and techniques, and offers projects that are both practical and ornamental. It is the ideal book for budding art and craft welders, the largest growing segment of the rapidly expanding DIY welding market.
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