TIG Welding Tips - 3 Tips that Matter Most 

I've been welding going on 18 years and this guy sure does give good pointers something I wish I could of come across young in my career.This should be very appreciated because the cost of his teachings has blood sweat and tears.Trial and error was how I learned even bursting out on difficult tests with make a man become very humble

OMG! This guy is like the master of the welding universe. If he can translate the DVD to spanish, he can make a fortune here in Mexico.

The work you do is amazing Jody. Truly a master at welding.

He has such steady hands I'm astounded. Been looking for videos like this for a while.

I've been using my Everlast welder more and more and I want to up my game. I really appreciate everything you are doing for the community to make us better providers for our families and better welders in general.

Your my favorite welding specialist! Thanks for your great work at welding field!!!!! Russia, Maxim

your bad tig welds are better than my regular ones.. have alot to learn

Thanks a lot for sharing this! Very easy to listen to your voice, very clear examples of how to do it the proper way vs the wrong way. This will help me tremendously when I start my 1 year education of welding. Thank you a thousand times! /Jonas from Sweden

Thank you for the simple 3 mistakes and clearing it up how this happens. Then blowing my mind with a level of welding I think I am years away from. You sir are an artist and instructor

I just started tig welding a few months back, and I get better with every video of yours I watch! Thank you!

True master at both teaching and welding. As a kid who's learning tig welding in school now, your videos are so valuable. Thank you man.

I bought the 2012 set and was very happy with them. I found that my knowledge of welding has vastly increased from following your tips and tricks. I will also be getting the 2013 set of videos as it looks like there are a lot of good topics covered from last year. Thanks for keeping up the good work.

I minute and 34 seconds in. . . "Aaaaah, so my arc is too long", Cheers for the video Jody, it helped a lot :D

oh my god, I didnt know what I was doing wrong for like 2 weeks until you showed me I just needed to keep a tighter arc, thank you so much

What a great summary. Showing how things go south with too long an arc is very instructive.

Best video I’ve seen ever pertaining to how to get that arch just right and amazing tips guys...just wow..

thanks for sharing, from Portugal i must say that you are the best at teaching about welding...thanks a lot....it as been very usefull in my works where people don't like to share information...

Sir, your videos are great and has helped me solve some "issues" in the past. I wished i had that " TIG finger" back then... I may buy a few in a soon future. Keep the great work up and Thank you for your time and efforts, to film, edit and explainations.

i've never seen better weld lessons than these in the entire internet zD .. thank u very much

Well you nailed it with "Fido's butt". All my welds look like "Fido's butt" but I keep trying and I'm always amazed to watch people like you while hoping to catch just a smidgen of your knowledge. Boy do I wish you lived next door. Thanks

Strong Work Jody....really knows how to communicate his extensive knowledge.

What the heck? You are a SERIOUS professional. I don't know a darn thing about welding, your lingo is high end, thank you because I realize I got a long way to go and I am learning.. Thank you sir carry on!

10 years later, this stuff still helpful

why ? would anyone give this guys videos a thumbs down . beats me .this guy is awsome at his trade

this video helped me more than my instructor haha

M_A_N !!! Your knowledge and styles are out-of-this-WORLD! Congrats.

Thanks for the great videos. I haven't had access to a machine shop / weld shop since I graduated in '12 but watch your videos and learn from each one of them. Keep the good work!

I agree to jonas!i weld everyday diffrent styles but i never get bored to see your videos!you are very very good and kind of a weld mentor online :) Keep up the GOOD work //jonne from sweden

Thank you for taking the time to share your Vast knowledge and helping all of us. I what your videos often. Thanks Charlie

14 days in blacksmith education. And im on tig for the first time today. Its a kind of easy to just do it. Bot holy shit there is a long way to go before im that good. Thanks for the show.

Jody i want to say thanks so much for the videos iv been welding for 3 1/2 years at high school right now and i cannot believe how much you help me with Mig,stick and mostly tig! i am one of the top tig welders in my school! i just want to say thanks so much for help i am always watching your videos! and i just got receive my tig finger as well! so i am trying that tomorrow so i cannot wait for that! and also got president for welding club at my high school and president for engineer as well! but other than that i love your vids man and keep them coming!!!! thanks again jody! i hope to meet you some day!

Hello Jody, I just wanna to say, "Thank You. You are amazing at welding and Thank you again for sharing your knowledge."

Hey I want to thank you for your tips in previous video when you answered to my comment where I asked about vertical TIG welding, Your advice has really helped me :) I am making good progress I think.

What an excellent summary of techniques, machines and rods, etc. Entertaining and educational as always. I really appreciate your videos and try never to miss one.

I'm a beginning tig welder and can relate to the three mistakes shown in the video. Wondered what I was doing wrong, now I know. Thanks!!

first time seeing anything from your channel and i love what you do to explain, very informative and easy to understand video, a lot of other channels speak well but do not make their filter dark enough to see the profile of the puddle and all those reasons are why i have subscribed already.

ones again, great tips Jody. nobody gets as good arc shots as you are!

Jody Does a great job of informing you and getting a great shot very professional

I like this, all the good info that i clicked on this video for is all at the start and super well done

Yo jody you really helped me alot when i started following my passion with welding. Big thanks to you for teaching basically for free. You are the man!

best welding channel on YT...you're the best Jody, thanks!!!

I learn something new from every one of your videos. Thank you

Good Morning! Your channel is very good. It would be even better if your DVDS had a Portuguese version. A big hug and congratulations!

Good idea to do the dvd to get a run down on the years lessons plus a good refrence point as well. Advertising gets my back up .

Expert welder and fabricator!

You are a seriously great welder. Very articulate too. Thanks for the tips.

I am very impressed, as you have for me just talent man, and I suspect that you have permissions for each category

Best channel on YT

You sir have been teaching me how to weld....even though I'm in school for welding now

Wow what a great video. Concise, easy to see & understand. Thank you.

Jody definitely has the best welding videos ever. all the other guys talk too much and don't weld enough. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Man that is so badass . Dude looks like you got it together with welding, off to order the DVD's. Good job on this. Rob

Great videos. Thank you for all your time and knowledge you put into your videos. Very helpful and encouraging.

Attention to detail awesome going back to school this December 5th for tig

Great job... I wish I had my old shop... Ex wife fukked me outta that but I had just outfitted my attached garage with 200 amps and strategic spots for drops to do jobs, had big plans to outfit my shop.. I absolutely love welding and enjoy your stuff

"Fido's butt" killed me.

This is the go to video for everyone who wants to tig weld.

I wish I were as good as you are in that video. What a man!!! If I were that good, my pay would be significantly higher (and maybe I'd enjoy the job more).

This is a great video -- a while back I made a suggestion (I know you probably get thousands of comments per video) to show some common mistakes more so I can better identify what I'm probably doing wrong

So I am the maestro of Fido's butt now. Bought a Miller Diversion 180 and having alot of problems...I am good with stick and mig but suck so far with tig. Can I ask several questions because your video is great: 1. When you show torch "too far away" and "nice tight arc" could you give me a range? I guess that we are talking like 1/8 of an inch for too far away and less than 1/16 of an inch for tight? If this is the case (or if distances are smaller) how in the world do you maintain this without repeatedly sticking the tip? 2. It seems like your torch angle is pretty steep-like 50 degrees from vertical-is that correct? Is that ok for beginner? 3. In your videos and in reality, I can not see the actual tip of the electrode-it gets overwhelmed by the arc cloud near the tip...I can infer where it is but I cannot see either where it is above puddle or behind if puddle has formed well. Do you just look at leading edge of puddle and forget about trailing edge? Thanks for your help and the great videos. I will buy a tig finger if I even get to the point that I can start to get the swing of this.

AT this point in time I would be ecstatic if I could get my welds to look like fidos butt.

Gas Tungsten Arc Welding is incredibly tough! Nice video!

Hey dashizzler if your workin off a bench or table. It may help u bud to first tack it to the table for starters so it ain't rattling round or moving. I would tack the joint parallel on the edge of the table and with a light hand not pressing hard on your piece or the table slide nice n slow along the edge of table to keep u steady. I find counting as u dab your wire helps keep a rythem n consistent bead. If your counting is consistent your bead may b the same. Tight arc is key angle a few degrees in the direction of travel is prob a good idea n concentrate your arc a little more on the bottom plate should prob help. Just keep layin lots of beads down you'll get it

excellent video sir you are a true professional

You sure make it look easy Jody. Thanks.

Awsome video! Thanks for all the help. I finally ordered a tig finger, cant wait to get it!

This has been a very useful presentation, thanks. It would have been good to know the amperage you used with each or with all. I watched most of your presentations and find all enjoyable, bought your bundle and I'd like to buy tips for my Lincoln 175. Thanks. Old Bob

My welding teacher , started out welding on ships for WW2 all the while trying to get into the Marines at 6'6"~his height hindered his acceptance, later in the war the Marines accepted him. He survived Iwo Jimma, and could weld in his sleep ! ..The Greatest Generation.

Awesome content. Thanks for the videos. Keep em coming. Have a great Christmas.

Hi Jody. Been watching your vids for a while. Great stuff. Just saw one of your older vids (2013) When you talked about the 115V . 20% duty cycle wire welder. I had one !!! Pain in the Butt. Opened it up. NO COOLING FAN !!!! ???? I put a computer fan in it and it JUMPED to 80% Duty Cycle. Hope this helps.

You make it look so easy!

You must be the best welder in the history of the world.

Any tips on brazing with Tig would be very much appreciated, because I am having nothing but problems. Constant spitting, crackling, and much fumes, with little if any flow.

I have a co-op placement at a welding shop and they use tig really nervous because I have only used mig and I have a tremor that I’ve had since birth. I do make decent welds on the mig machine

How are u a legend at every welding process

Jody would you cover the most consistent way to fully weld thin steel in all positions? I am talking about body repair on old pickups where the door sills, the heater air duct, the bottoms of the fenders, etc., are rusted out and new metal must be formed and then welded in. Heat warp over wide sections of this thin steel is also a problem since usually there is not way to reach the inside of the pieces being butt welded together. It has to happen from one side and it must stay flat. The videos I have seen are of people using .023 wire to string together a series of tack welds. But there is not flow, it looks like hell, gets ground down and painted over what is at best a 50% weld as far as I am concerned. I dream of a beautiful keyhole weld but the puddle always falls out, I just can't move precisely and steadily enough to make it happen. So, I wonder if the world of TIG is the solution? I keep hearing stories of people welding bear can thickness aluminum. If there is such a process that mere mortals can master to weld aluminum, welding 24 gauge steel all position should be a cinch. Is it possible? How about you restore a '67 Chevy C20 farm truck that was never washed, sat out in the rain for fifty years and now the owner wants it to be brand new. The only parts of the cab that remain are the roof and the back side. My only option is to cut those parts off the old cab and weld them onto another old cab that is in slightly better condition. That means about twenty feet of butt weld in all positions. I favor TIG for precise control so please do cover what is the very best TIG machine you can think of for such work. Alternately, if you think of a MIG process that can work, please spec out what MIG that is. I would love to have a machine that can correct for my mistakes of varying stickout and angle.

hi Jody I'm leaving tig welding i don't have anybody to show me i watch your video you are my guru. i have problem doing root pass on pipe im welding carbon steel I'm using 70 S-6 it looks fine outside inside the pipe all sugary I don't know what I'm doing wrong here can you please help me Thanks

Anyone in welding school should have this DVD set. Would give you an edge over your fellow classmates

Great video thanks for all the tips I've learned almost everything I know watching you thanks again

I like how you get to the point!!! Very informative!!!!

I got a couple of questions...long time listener first time caller. Haha All concerning aluminum welding... Does the acetone produce a gas like brake cleaner does? I'm sure you wait till it evaporates . After reading the brake cleaner warning story of that guy that got sick I worry! How about when your running dimes on aluminum, and you need to start another rod, how do you keep it purdy, and avoid sooting the restart? Is there any downside to welding with too many amps, I'm always in a hurry it seems, I tend to push puddle, the amps , almost over heat the part, where as I see a lot of guys don't look like they hardly use any amps, and the puddle looks almost like its dry , sitting on top of the aluminum, not as melted in? My guess is as with steel the hotter the better?

Exceptional instructional video mate.

WOW! Look,...welding like this is not an easy feat. Well done in the craft.

Jody, When I watch your videos I can see the arc, rod, and where you're welding. When I look through my helmet I can just see the arc at 10 on the setting. Should I turn it down til I can see what I see in the videos? I'm just a newbe.

I'm impressed. Great skills.

Been welding long time, all kinds of welding. Most places I have worked I am either #1 welder or if large place one of top 5. After watching someone like you though, I feel like a dope.

Can you make a video on how to weld overhead butt joint, I can't seem to get it right. This is one of my school projects by the way. I would really appreciate it if you did a video covering that. Thanks.

In the first part of the video, What amperage is your machine set at, cup size, and argon cfm? Great video. I found your website 3 days ago.

hey! Jody.....love all the videos......you were talking about tungsten and how NOT to sharpen them on the colored end ,especialy if you have different kind of rods....why don't manufacturers put the color in the middle so that you could sharpen both ends and still ID them.😁....hmmm. i should patent this.

Hello, I would like to ask you if you can tell me how to make such a clear video of the welding area. Thank you Alessandro

guys!! YOU'RE VIDS ARE GREAT! SIR,MY DAD TAUGHT ME HOW TO WELD,HRI THE BEST I'VE SEEN !HE'S BEEN BURNING,SINCE THE TENDER AGE OF 13 . HAD HIS OWN COMPANY ! ALTHOUGH I'VE DONE WELDING MATERIALS OF ALL DIFFERENT TYPE.ONLY ALUMINUM ONLY TWICE SIR . I MUST SAY,THAT MY MIG , STICK , STAINLESS WITH TIG AND STICK LOOK REALLY NICE. YET,I LACK KNOWLEDGE WITH ALUMINUM.CAN YOU HELP.

weldingtipsandtricks Can you make a video that just explains the setup of a TIG Welder. One that shows how to set it up based on what youre welding and then troubleshooting if the original setup doesnt work.

Do you use a foot pedal? On a ladder or on the floor the pedal just doesn't cut it. My dad loved 7014 rods and I dont reckon he thought there were any other rods. They make a beautiful flat weld. I always liked 6010s for case boring road ways. Case boring is drilling the dirt out as the pipe goes under the road. Push one in and weld on 20ft till the destination is reached.

good job your tips have helped me a lot thanks

Awsome video, hope you can help me out with my problem. I started tig welding a few months ago and finished 3 bigger projects jet. So when i'm welding butt joints everything works just well but i have huge problems with t-joints. At the last project i welded 2mm thick square tube out of regular steel where i needed here and there a little t-joint weld. Now my problem is that i can't manage to evenly melt both pieces but only one is melted at a time when i point the arc right on the weld and traveling along. I also don't really know how exactly i should hold my torch. I'm using a 200 amp inverter, electrode negative of course. The tungsten's diameter is 1,6 mm and i'm using most of the time a number 6 gas cup. The argon flows with 8 liters per minute and the stickout is about 6-7 mm. I have no foot pedal but only a button on my torch. Hope you can give me a few tips. And sorry if you allready talked about that specific topic and i didn't notice. I watched quite a few of your vids now but i can't understand everything 100% because i'm from germany and have only access to my school-english. So i hope you answer my question :) Merry Christmas and greetings from Germany ;)

This video makes my day.

This is the real “Mr Tig” !

Jody: In one of your videos you said you prefer Lanthinated Tungsten for all steel , stainless and aluminum applications. Can you explain why the other types of electrodes are not beneficial or necessary to get the best strongest welds with good appearance?Bill

Hey Jody, check out the Eastwood company they have a tungsten grinder for around $124.

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