Product Description
Discover the trade secrets that will make welding metal artwork easier! Welding for Arts and Crafts features 85 pages of easy-to-understand diagrams and simple, step-by-step instructions for creating some of the most attractive welded creations – from animals and yard art, to functional household items, to seasonal projects such as gift boxes, snowmen, heart-shaped tables, and more! No prior welding experience is assumed, making this book ideal for amateurs and hobb… More >>
This book has some fun ideas for crafts and gives me inspiration to try some different projects. I appreciate Roy’s beginning the book with different welding techniques and pointing out safety issues first. Welding arts & crafts is fun, but certainly has hazards involved. Roy addresses these issues at the beginning. I personally know D.Roy and have been in his classes. He makes the classes just as enjoyable as this book.
Rating: 5 / 5
I enjoyed this book as I am a beginning welder. And when I took it to class, the instructor immediately ordered a couple more to help give folks ideas.
Rating: 5 / 5
The book had a lot of ideas for garden art, which I enjoyed, but each project uses a different welding technique and different types of welding tools. A person would have to invest a lot of money into all these various tools in order to build the pieces of garden art the book suggests. Which is highly inpractical. So even though I enjoyed seeing the garden art, it would be impossible to construct it the way the author suggests, unless a person had an entire shop of welding tools to use.
Rating: 2 / 5
I’ve reviewed this several times before, but it just never got posted. I used to feel that it was because amazon was keeping negative reviews to a minimum, but I see that others are agreeing with me now. I wish they would have posted my review years ago when I bought this. Perhaps a few people would have saved their money.
Anyways, the projects mentioned in the description are not all in the book. The heart shaped table and snowmen, for example, are not anywhere to be found. I told them about this but they never changed the description to reflect it. Not sure why. Sales reasons perhaps?
Also, if you are not a very skilled welder you won’t get too far as there is no real instruction on welding. Many projects involve soldering or brazing. I’ve been welding for over 12 years and have never needed to do either of those to join metal.
I bought this book in 2003 and have yet to do anything with it but take it to work to show my friends how bad it was. The only project that comes to mind is lawn ornaments of dragonflies. The wings are made from hammering on disgarded MIG tips. Egad. Consider this fair warning.
Rating: 1 / 5
I bought this book thinking it would show/describe common techniques for art related projects (some do’s and dont’s). Or even a bit on brazing (for welding with exotic meatals like copper and brass). Instead, it is just a step by step for several really uninspired projects. And then mostly tack welding. Not much serious welding.It does cover some very basic information on the different welding processes, but you can get that online for free. I would suggest saving up for weekend welding classes at your local community college. At least you will learn proper welding techniques from pros. You can then determine what equipment is best for you for your needs.
Rating: 1 / 5