Ready, Set, Weld!: Beginner-Friendly Projects for the Home & Garden

I am really impressed with this book! In it's short format it truly gives you all the information that you need to start safely and successfully welding your own metal projects. It is clearly written and concise, the pictures are great and instructions easy to follow. I run metal workshops for beginners and am recommending this book to my students.

We bought a welder years ago, and have never used it. This book has all the basics to get us started. The projects are straight forward and broken down with easy, moderate, complex projects with detailed descriptions and photos. Full of great ideas that will spur your imagination.

PERFECT book for the beginner and someone that just wants to be able to do some basic welding to augment their other artwork like I do. I know less-than nothing about welding, and it’s really intimidating to me. But this book made me feel so much more at ease and confident to be able to make some simple forms to use w my sculptural ceramics. I highly recommend it.

Great book for the novice. It is an easy read and pictures of projects you can actually do and should do at least 5 -8 of them. Makes you look at a scrap piece of metal in a different way. Good that it is geared to welding...not just pictures of things DONE in welding...Good book for beginners. I recommend it.

the book did have good info about welding in general, but all of the projects were pretty much the same style. i was hoping for a little diversity, seeing as the style of the projects on the cover were not really my taste. i cant say the book didnt fit its description, but i was still a little disappointed.

Great book for ideas and inspirational projects, I've been welding for over 35 years and found useful information and differing approaches. No doubt you will find a project or two that you would like to build or useful ideas to jazz up your existing work. I have built four of the "Vine Racks" for friends and they love them a fun and unique gift. You won't be disappointed in this book.

Kimberli's writing style is conversational, clear and her instructions are easy to follow. She's so positive and encouraging that she makes it easy to dive in and learn to weld. I felt that she was in the room with me, guiding me along. She gives you all the information you need to get started and successfully finish your own projects. I'll never look at metal the same way again!

I got this for my mom, who is just beginning to learn how to weld. She's a bit intimidated by the whole process, but her face lit up when I showed her some of the easy craft projects in this book. The instructions are clear and there's lots of photos. Hopefully having some step by step "recipes" will let her gain enough confidence to eventually meet her goal of creating scrap metal yard art!