[Least honorable]

looking for some great looking tig art that is also somewhat achievable to replicate as a project to do on some (preferable carbon steel) plate, i realize that i can just google it, but many people don't upload their amazing work to google, so if you got some kickass looking work, i would love if you could share it in this thread

here are some examples taken off google to give you some idea of what i meant by tig art

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how do you replicate the scales on the fish? looks like if its at a higher temperature so the puddle is wider, and less frequent dips to replicate the scales farther apart, not sure if that is correct because i'm still a student in welding, but please let me know how the scales where made so i can learn different techniques

thank you guys,
regards
noah/Least honorable

[Otto Nobedder]

I stay off of weldporn entirely.

I'm already my own worst critic, I don't need these people reminding me of what I'm not capable of.

You can be a top-notch welder and make a fortune, while never having a weld worthy of the "golden-arm" people on that site.

Steve S

[Least honorable]

I stay off of weldporn entirely.

I'm already my own worst critic, I don't need these people reminding me of what I'm not capable of.

Steve S

fair enough, im fairly hard on on myself when i weld aswell, but i dont got much experience, still in school, would you happen to know how the fishscales are made? to have that wide shape and damn near perfect scale look?

[Otto Nobedder]

I suspect the scales are a manual pulse method, where you move the tungsten to the location of the next "scale", mash the pedal, and add a small dab of filler, then sharply let off so it craters, leaving the space for the next scale. This would create the texture as I see it, but this is only a guess.

Steve S

[Poland308]

Might also try using a fat tungsten with no point to give you a wide arc.

[motox]

thats a lot of rod and argon
craig

[soutthpaw]

Large filler rod would be my guess
Reason being, especially with aluminum, if you use large rod, it will cool the puddle very rapidly and freeze before the puddle has time to wet out. Combined with a slow pulse or manual pulse might get that look. A steady hand is the other part you need...

[Least honorable]

Large filler rod would be my guess
Reason being, especially with aluminum

You think it's aluminum? Does the type matter much? I thought the baseplate looked a lil like some carbon steel, but you're probably right.

[Edit] now that I look closer, I realize the cleaning action all around the welds

[exnailpounder]

The bottom pic is Mig or stick welded (take a good look). I don't think the fish was all bead stacked. I think the weldor put together some sore of base to stack beads on. It would take forever to stack all those beads and cost a fortune for rod and argon if it was all bead stacked. Plus the metal would be a couple inches thick. Maybe if you had a 1000 amp welder

[soutthpaw]

Might be a good welder, but does not know much about fish. All the scales are stacked in the wrong direction!

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[exnailpounder]

Might be a good welder, but does not know much about fish. All the scales are stacked in the wrong direction!

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Good eye!

[rick9345]

maybe it swims tail first? New species!