A comprehensive, visual handbook for welding in the farm, home workshop, school workshop, blacksmith shop, or auto shop. Almost anyone can weld, cut, or shape metal. That's the starting point for this supremely practical book which helps the beginner to improve and the intermediate operator to broaden their technique. Its detailed sections describe all the major types of welds before progressing into trickier methods. With this comprehensive guide, you'll understand everything you need to know, from arc, TIG, MIG, and gas welding to plasma cutting, soldering, welding plastic, and more. Beyond welding metals and plastics, advice extends into the wider workshop with chapters on drills, cutting threads, and basic blacksmithing. Filled with helpful visuals and photography, detailed explanations, expert suggestions, and step-by-step directions, author and experienced welding instructor Andrew Pearce also lays out common pitfalls and mistakes, and how to avoid or correct them. New, updated edition will include brand new chapters on general welding skills and understanding metals, expanded information on abrasives, and four new step-by-step projects and plans, including a steel table, fire pit, welding cart, and more.

· A complete and informative resource for beginner to intermediate welders for farm, home, blacksmith, auto, or school workshops

· New edition features new chapters on general welding skills, understanding metals, expanded information on abrasives, and 4 new step-by-step projects and complete plans featuring welding and metal shop accessories being created

· Organized into detailed sections describing specific types of welds, equipment, common faults, how to avoid and fix mistakes, and more

· Also includes descriptive explanations, helpful visuals, step-by-step directions, and expert suggestions

· Starts with basic practices then progresses into trickier methods before finishing with chapters on workshop techniques and basic blacksmithing