Making Mirrored Stainless Steel TIG Weld Art for the First Time - Apex Legends Predator Badge

I have some 12ga #4 brushed stainless laser drops you can have if you’re ever in Statesville

looking forward to ýour 100k subs!

Awesome. Looks like a good excuse to try some electroplating. Masking for two tone, copper and nickel or something.

Hell of a job Justin. Looks awesome. Disregard the distortion , We do what we can and when we lack a good quench plate there isn't much that can be done in that situation. A sheet of aluminum would serve wonders for these in the future. Also, don't sweat being bad at a bad game. :p I wonder how many mad faces that just produced. Lol Keep up the great work!

Wow a welder that plays Apex!

What do you mark with? Good video.

Awesome, I was just wondering about doing something like this on the derby cover on a Harley. I think they're just mild steel underneath the finish so whatever I did, I'd have to polish up and have re-chromed, which defeats half the purpose of having weld art imo.

How much did that piece of steel cost? How much would that piece cost when finished?

Dude- your video editing, lighting, and content are top of the pack. I really enjoy your videos. Keep them coming, and often.

How about using shop air to cool it. Start with a sheet of 1/2" (or thicker plate), 14" x 14" (or bigger), cut out the inside 11.5" x 11.5". This makes a stiff but hollow frame to tack to, then blow cool air from underneath in several places and have several escape holes for the now hot air to leave thru. Might work? Thoughts???

Hey to make the lines on the plate what kind of scriber is that or where can I find one ???

You're videos are awesome man, such high quality and super informational, and helpful! Excited for more content!

Awesome video, I’ve always wanted to give some stainless art a go. Just a quick question on what you were using to mark the stainless through the paper?

Appreciate any info!

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I recently have been getting into welding due to being tired of not being able to weld my own jeep parts, your videos are amazing man. Thank you so much for all the info and tricks you teach us

Dude just found your content and its awesome! Video production quality is great! The question is, when are you going to stream some Apex Legends? lol I'd be down to join you.

Link to that Engraving tool???

Do you think its possible to put stainless steel design art on the Tesla Cybertruck aftermarket?

u don't know if u don't try! good job Justin look great for your first time tryin. im gonna sub u have some awesome vids fixin to watch how to weld aluminum foil. Happy Holidays.

“It’s either going to get better or worse” Couldn’t have said it any better myself! Hahahaaa!

Question for you. I'm building a c10 and am looking for a nascar exhaust. Got a connection for used stuff?

Im assuming you used a 300 series stainless. For future reference, consider using a ferritic grade of stainless, it has roughly a 50% less coeficient of thermal expansion and its a much lower cost. This will significantly cut down on distortion, as well as you will be able to buy thicker base material.

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Do you have to use a furick to do the tig art of can you use what ever ?

What tool did you use to etch before welding? What type of Tig set up do you use?

What is that pen looking thing u used for sketching the badge??

I use 1/4ss un-polished and it potato chips a little bit too. I also tack it bolt it down to a copper plate

Brilliant video, great job

Thick aluminum instead of steel as heatsink would do much better. Even warped looks awesome!

Hola, no ablo tu idioma y no entendí nada de lo que dijiste, pero también soy soldador TIG y me encantó lo que hiciste 👍🇦🇷 saludos

Live and learn.

Justin, for the video when it switches from ??light mode to dark mode?? How do you do that? What I mean is how do you make the video visible instead of a bright white ball?
Thank you.
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Nice work but am I the only one who feels like it's a Sex Ed diagram just saying it looks like the lady bits

How did you engrave the design in the beginning ... what kind of tool is that?

What is the tool you use to do the etching on the stainless before you tig it?

Nice first try brother. I actually like the way that turned out with the warping for more of a 3D effect. 💥💯

WHERE DID ALL THE COLOR GO !?

What engraver did u use on this project?

If you started in the center it would have not warped. Learned that the hard way

I suspect 12ga ss would be good to keep the warping down, especially if tacked to heavy plate. Do you have to buy it mirrored or can you shine it up on your own? Might bring the cost down too.

Pretty cool.

Use a 12 x 12 piece of brass and use the sea clamp vice grips and vice grip it to your table but this is the first time I ever seen someone affectively weld stainless

What is the thickness of the 16-gauge stainless? (about 69-thou?)

That actually turned out pretty damn good considering how thin that plate was! I learned the hard way with the warping too 😂. I forgot to tac it before I started so it was a loss from the start for me

it oil canned because you tacked it all the way around the heat needs to escape

to much gas shielding and post flow. you actually want a little less for stainless art than you would want for actual welding... because you want the oxidation to occur a bit for the colors rather than preventing it with proper gas shielding and post flow time.

*3/32” Tungsten. I mess that up 50% of the time. Honestly it’s always been big tungsten (3/32) and small tungsten (1/16)..... and then once in awhile .040 and 1/8”. I called it 3/16” in the video 🤦🏼‍♂️