Angles.
The trick is to find the right angle where you can showcase a piece and hide your welds 
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Sorry if I insulted you. I just meant new to the skill.
Zero offense taken. I absolutely loved it. Like the old cliche: If the shoe fits, wear it.
That shoe fits me like a glove 
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That is incredible.
Did you index the uprights and the top honeycomb?
Or cheated with an XR table?
Sooo… All of us here aren’t crazy?
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Cut and bent the remaining parts today.
Issue? Can’t weld today.
My bulk order of hardware isn’t arriving for a few more days so all I can do is take a break from work.
These parts will receive 168 nuts welded in key locations, then onto the next 24 orders.
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That looks like a great project!
heavy metal! 
Being that it’s all 3/16", yeah those little piles are HEAVY!
Wish I could play with thin stuff.
3/8 to 1 inch is my main media.
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I’m not familiar with how to index; I’ll have to look that up. I drew them in Fusion then cut the drawing up. The top honeycomb is three pieces that I subsequently welded together (10 feet long). The uprights are two.
3 pieces for a 10’ long section. Well done. I did not see the joints
It looks great from here.
When tig welding thin metal. Use copper or heavy thick aluminum as a backing. When tig welding aluminum use copper or heavy thick metal as a backing to absorb the heat. You can use a few more amps to have the filler flow better. Thick angel really helps for corner joints.
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Same, that’s a good idear
Black beauties!
Where did you get that nut box?
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Me?
Sorry this forum just sucks cause it doesn’t show the icon that you’re replying to me, but the notification says so.
They’re from Monster Bolts and it’s a pack of 250. They arrive in bags but I always dump them into small boxes.
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Thanks!
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the forum will tell you if its to you unless you post the very next post then it doesn’t.
Does that make sense?
this shows your name in the top right because there is a post between
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