Workshop Projects and Honest Tool Reviews
Most people think DIY steel plant stand welding is complicated. I get it — I used to think the same thing before I struck my first arc. The truth is, a simple steel plant stand is one of the best first weld projects you can tackle in an afternoon. I built my first one on … Read more
I’ve got a bad habit of saving every scrap of steel that comes through my shop. Drops from plasma cuts, leftover square tube from a trailer build, flat bar I stripped off an old gate — it all piles up. Last spring, I finally put that pile to work and built a rolling shop cart … Read more
If you’ve ever priced out a custom wrought-iron garden gate, you already know the sticker shock is real. I got a quote for $1,400 installed a few years back for a simple 48-inch single-swing gate. That afternoon I walked into my garage, grabbed a piece of scrap 1-inch square tube, and decided to weld a … Read more
Steel fire pit warp prevention was not something I thought about when I built my first fire pit. I figured steel was steel — weld it up, set it in the yard, light a fire. Twelve years of garage shop work later, I know exactly how wrong that assumption was. That first pit looked great … Read more