Artistic Welding-Getting Skills Fast-Part #1

Have you seen a really cool welded sculpture before?

Have you wanted to learn the skills on how to make it?

Be rest assured that you CAN learn how to do it. You can learn how to make great artistic things, but do not be fooled that you with make millions off of it.

I will talk a little bit about how to acquire enough welding skills to be dangerous enough to do something cool.

You can relax to know that most great welding artists learned on their own. They did not have a teacher in the beginning, just the will to make something. Every sculpture artist makes garbage the first time they do something. The important thing for amy artist is to create, evolve and improve upon your last project.

Be keenly aware of the power observation. As a metal arts welder/sculptir you CAN make great things just by watching other welders do things. This is how I learned in the beginning. I found a welding shop and offered to help them on ANY project in my free time/ evening hours in order to get my hands on good equipment. I was free to them and they JUMPED on the oppurtunity for free labor. It was FREE SCHOOLING for me. The journeyman welders immediatly took me under their wing and taught me tons!! After one month, the welding shop won a huge artistic project for a veterans memorial worth $500,000 and I began to work on it, right along side of the journeyman. It was great !!
After one year, I was a really good welder, I did side jobs and filled in for sick guys at the shop and the company took me in as one of their own. I also got to take credit for working on the war memorial project, along with working on many decorative gates. My boss eventually offerred to pay me because my layout skills became very good and my quality was reliable enough that he could trust me to do basic and intermediate layout without him watching. I became an essential part of the team. This all came about be offering to work/learn for free.

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