tig plates with stainless filler

I was asked to pit together a tig flat plate with stainless 309 filler for display. I also made an outside corner joint with bevel and a 1/8" landing. This was also filled with 309.

Welding funnies

Needed some good chuckles

Stainless Tig 1/8" open root on steel plates

Unfortunately the school does not have stainless plates. They teach stainless tig on mild steel with stainless filler rod.....

Yup

Domo arigato mr roboto

I've been working on this in school for a bit. My wife collects old tin robots, so I wanted to make he one cor her birthday.
It is finished. I'm going to work on some patina methods to give it some "age"

It's all 1/16 sheet with the exception of the feet and arms that are 1/8.

Little bit O' stainless tig

Had a chance to try my hand at stainless tig today. Very happy with the results. I can't wait to get more practice.

16 gauge tig

Here some 16 gauge work I was doing today. Lap joint, fillet square groove and outside corner.

I ground the last 2 in order to check for penetration.