Thank you, gentlemen, for your thoughts. I'm definitely getting more and more interested in getting this project off the ground. Ogorir, what does the nickel layer do? I noted that the author of that article mentioned using a nickel layer if the body was cast iron, which is a whole nother animal fro...

New guy here, and very little welding experience. Did some MIG in high school and enjoyed it, but never got much time on stick or tig. After graduating, I spent a year or so working with a blacksmith learning what I could about the old ways of working iron, but no modern welding. I got out of blacks...