Becky Stern is a Content Creator at Autodesk/Instructables, and part time faculty at New York’s School of Visual Arts Products of Design grad program. Making and sharing are her two biggest passions, and she's created hundreds of free online DIY tutorials and videos, mostly about technology and its intersection with crafts. Find her @bekathwia on YouTube/Twitter/Instagram.
Tomás Libertiny made this sculpture entirely out of solder, using a stationary welder setup and a welding turntable. It was at the Design/Miami Craft Punk exhibit at Milan design week, hence the Fendi welding suit. Via Cool Hunting.
14 thoughts on “Sculpture made entirely out of welding wire”
Anonymoussays:
solder <> welding wire
Becky Sternsays:
well, it’s not welding /rod/ that comes from what appears to be a MIG welder, so what /do/ you call it? They call it solder in the Cool Hunting post, but I wasn’t convinced that’s completely accurate.
Bensays:
Welding wire.
Bensays:
or “wire electrode” if you want to be fancy.
tenax8.myopenid.comsays:
I wonder how his sunburned hand is doing…
Becky Sternsays:
I was wondering that myself! Does Fendi make gloves? =]
Michael Fusionsays:
it’s wire or “wire electrode”
MIG stands for microwire inert gas, there is a gas sheield
TIG is similar except for…wait for it…tungsten inert gas
high five!
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solder <> welding wire
well, it’s not welding /rod/ that comes from what appears to be a MIG welder, so what /do/ you call it? They call it solder in the Cool Hunting post, but I wasn’t convinced that’s completely accurate.
Welding wire.
or “wire electrode” if you want to be fancy.
I wonder how his sunburned hand is doing…
I was wondering that myself! Does Fendi make gloves? =]
it’s wire or “wire electrode”
MIG stands for microwire inert gas, there is a gas sheield
TIG is similar except for…wait for it…tungsten inert gas
high five!