Welding / Metal — My Work

Welding

I started welding in high school shop classes and have continued on ever since. Mostly it has been personal work for small hobby projects, but I have also done some consultant work in a fabrication studio, various farm/home repair jobs, and some factory supply welding. I attended the NECC Welding program, but had to drop out due to a death in the family, and have had other career opportunities since. I have experience (but no certification) with all of the following:

Stick (SMAW & FCAW)
MIG (gas and non-gas)
Oxy-Acetylene (welding and cutting)
Gas Brazing
Low temperature soldering
Forge Welding
Plasma (cutting only)

Metal Work

Mostly hobby work and scrap metal projects, though I have done some work for fabrication studios, factories, and other companies throughout the years, everything from machine operator stations, to charity donation boxes, and tool repair.

The majority of my metalwork has been just for fun either making tools, or small sculptures. I have a deep love of working with scrap materials and turning trash into something beautiful or useful.

Welding pattern work from trade school class.

Spot welds holding form before a long joining weld

Person in the shower, small scrap-meta sculpture.

300lb anvil welding together from "pig" weights

Scrap-metal mug made from gas cylinder and tractor chain

Small metal flower made from bottle caps

Deicing salt dispenser made from large stock cans

Chainmail ball (J1-5 hexweb 13ga aluminum)

Chainmail (J3-6 layer 14ga anodized aluminum)

Chainmail (Helmsheet variant 16ga brass)

Chainmail hacki-sacks (J1-5 with Moorish rose cores anodized aluminum)

Rainbow chainmail (E1-6 anodized aluminum)

Decrative stripe chainmail (E1-4 17ga galvanized steel and 15ga copper)

Colorful flower pots made from welded stock cans

Pocket clip for an old refurbished multi-tool

Metal flower made of soup-can lids on a mint-tin

Wall hanger of eye glasses made of sracp-metal

Pocket clip for an old refurbished pocket knife

Metal flowers made of bottle caps on a mint-tin

Metal flower barrette made of bottle caps

Metal flower necklace made of soup-can lids

Metal flowers made of soup-can lids and bottle caps

Metal flowers made of soup-can lids, bottle caps and mint-tins

Small dog collar name tag with metal bottle cap flower

Metal flower made of soup-can lids mounted on a mint-tin

300lb anvil welding together from "pig" weights after years of duty

A metal-working stump with a variety of tools

Railroad track anvil with hardened steel plate

Forge Logo hand cut on plasma cutter

Table made for saw in a factory, out of fram are arm mounts for regular stops

Adjustable mounting bracket for toggle switch on factory machinery

Cribbage game made to fit into a Mint-tin

Spot welds for the edge of a shop tear down table

Cigar and pipe ash tray mad out of old gas cylinder and washers

Indoor garden made of old propane cylinders

Old fire extinguishers turned into refillable canned air

Old fire extinguisher turned into refillable canned air

Metal flowers made of soup-can lids a wood, and wire in-lay base

Welding in progress to make a welding table

small indoor watering cans made from soup cans and scrap

Scrap metal gong bells made from old gas cylinders

Welding

Metal Work

Black-smithing

Wood-working