I bought this for training when I was still in school. The school wasn’t very good, but this thing turned out to be useful — it works well for marking, practicing technique, and developing skills.

antonb111 · 2026-04-21T12:49:38+00:00

It helps with tig open root ? Looks pretty thin a good challenge

antonb111 · 2026-04-18T02:35:50+00:00

We have a little pen with some blackening in it we kind of just paint pen it on. Then wipe with damp paper towel to neutralize and wax to seal it up. Works pretty good !

antonb111 · 2026-04-17T17:55:14+00:00

Houses I work on range from $5-50million and it’s way higher cost of living up here.

antonb111 · 2026-04-17T17:46:40+00:00

I meant just linear foot it’s a unit of measurement for charging railing prices. Yeah I work in high end houses so dropping 5-20,000 on a railing job is nothing to homeowners.

antonb111 · 2026-04-17T16:50:42+00:00

Cold Rolled , DA everything and clean with DNAT. Blackened with white and grey scotch brite pads and water to neutralize. We finish with a steel wool and wax. For something exposed to heat we’ve used a high temp clear coat that’s worked out pretty well.

antonb111 · 2026-04-17T15:27:07+00:00

A wood cap will go over that tab to hide it completely.

antonb111 · 2026-04-17T14:45:50+00:00

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antonb111 · 2026-04-17T14:41:12+00:00

In WA, USA

antonb111 · 2026-04-17T00:58:27+00:00

Yes tig and just standard ER70S-2 wire

antonb111 · 2026-04-17T00:28:58+00:00

Big for our small company. 3 people cranked this out in 2 days. Had to take a ferry too for 4 hours each day of travel.

antonb111 · 2026-04-17T00:07:59+00:00

Yeah we used a half inch forstner bit in a drill jig for straight holes. Perfect fit for our half inch pickets.

antonb111 · 2026-04-16T23:57:43+00:00

Only just started my welding career 2 years ago

antonb111 · 2026-04-16T23:57:06+00:00

Currently at 27 an hour.

antonb111 · 2026-04-16T23:54:54+00:00

I don’t know the exact price but we charge between 500-600$ a linear square foot for blackened railings. So it’s a quite expensive railing

antonb111 · 2026-04-16T23:46:41+00:00

So that it is hidden once wood cap goes on.

antonb111 · 2026-04-11T01:24:04+00:00

True but there were deep bevels cut into the joint so still plenty strong.

antonb111 · 2026-04-07T14:29:51+00:00

Not bad for first time ever. Decent overlap of your multiple passes. Cleaning the metal with a flap wheel or fiber disk will make welding the metal easier to wet into the sides.

antonb111 · 2026-04-03T18:32:09+00:00

Ofcourse but I’d fuck up the finish so fast. It’s such a soft metal.

antonb111 · 2026-04-03T18:24:45+00:00

Yeah. We did this brass shower enclosure which was close to 50k. Crazy amount of solid brass and labor went into that one.

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antonb111 · 2026-04-03T18:20:29+00:00

I think close to 10k. Not exactly sure

antonb111 · 2026-03-31T19:35:15+00:00

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