Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 06:26:13 -0500 From: Tony Rentschler <w.rentschler@mac.com> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Subject: RE: [CR]measuring ugliness
Suzy Jackson wrote:
> And I agree about TIG. Whilst TIG welds are eminently practical and
> purposeful, they have no soul.
To which Tony replied:
Learn to TIG weld, and when you can smoothly and cleanly join very thin-walled steel tubes with a tiny weld, or, as a challenge, perhaps two beer cans or some stainless steel foil, then I just _know_ you will gain a new perspective, and see beauty and soul where you now see none. "Soul," for my money, is poured into a creation by the builder, and is not dependent upon any specific technique.
Tony Rentschler New York, NY
Well...... I'm 99.9% with Suzy on this one, but I'm 0.1% with you if that helps any. Nothing at all wrong with TIG as a joining method ("some of my best friends are TIG...."). There are lots of highly skilled TIG welders out there making very nice, functional stuff, but it essentially zaps tubes together relatively quickly in order to speed up the building process and minimize the QC required. That's why "everyone" does it! Cheers, Greg "an EF45 man myself" Parker Dexter, Michigan