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Artisan Welding Projects: 25 Decorative Projects for Hobby Welders | 
 enlarge | Author: Karen Ruth
Publisher: Creative Publishing international
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 101711
Media: Paperback
Pages: 112
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 10.6 x 8.1 x 0.3
ISBN: 1589232801
Dewey Decimal Number: 745.56
EAN: 9781589232808
ASIN: 1589232801
Publication Date: October 1, 2006
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Product Description
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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 A good idea book for fundamental skill building June 27, 2008
S. Ray (Ballwin, MO United States)
The projects have a high school or technical school feel to them however I felt they were great skill building tasks that once mastered could be leveraged for more difficult projects.
 A wide range of projects January 8, 2008
ACH
This book has a wide range of projects from beginning to more advanced. The shipment came promptly and I'm very happy with it.
awesome book September 25, 2007
Michael K. Bradley (Tucson, AZ United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The nice thing about this book is it shows tricks and tips to make the metal shapes without having to have the expensive tools. The projects are layed out nicely and easy to follow. great book!!!!!
 Good ideas, Good photos, Poor technique September 17, 2007
maddog (New Mexico)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
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.
great present! July 2, 2007
Maj Wesels (south africa)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I bought this book for my father as a gift for fatersday. According to him, this book is great! It is full of do-able projects, and the guidelines are easy to understand. The projects are interesting, and practical, and you can use the stuff you make in and around the home. A great gift!
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