Shop Teacher Bob linked to this following artist/craftsman Sott Raade and his welding skills. Crazy awesome!! It makes you want to go practice for ten years so you can even feel like you have the right to approach him with a simple question. RESPECT!
It also makes me want to sink into a hole when I hear art instructors talk about welding and compare the process to "hot glue but with metal". I think we might want to admit to our art students that there's a bit more to welding than that. Just saying'...
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Somewhere along the way, we lost the practice of craftsmen signing their work as a point of pride and satisfaction.
This is absolutely begging for that custom to emerge once more.
Good point. I'm going to work on that in the future and encourage my students to do the same.
A long time back I worked as a weldor at a place that had a national reputation of welding excellence. I was still pretty much a rookie at that time so I wasn't one of those guys but all the weldors had to stamp their work with their unique stamp. Even though it's been over 40 years ago, I still remember that my stamp was "BB". It's amazing the effect stamping/signing your work has on you when you know that all the other weldors in the plant will know who did what and of course the trace-ability in the event something would go wrong down the road. Whether by choice or force, craftsmen/artists should sign their work. I've been remiss in doing that over the years but I would encourage your students to not only sign their work but also date it and record it as well.
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