Easy to read and well thought out, 06 Feb 2008
This is an easy to read well thought out and generally all round good reference for welding. Dont let the farm welding title put you off. I have found this book to be an invaluable guide for starting off MIG welding

Excellent book., 15 Sep 2005
In brief:

Buy this book if you have just bought a MIG welder and want to know how to make good welds.

The text is clear and concise and, more importantly, the pictures show you what a good weld looks like and what bad welds look like with simple explanations as to the cause of the faults and the remedies.

I bought a copy of this book when it was first published and still recommend it to beginners and those who want to improve.

Straight to the point practical welding manual for anyone, 02 Feb 2002
An excellent book for anyone who is either a skilled welder or a complete beginner. Easy to read and straight to the point. If your not involved in agriculture, do not let the title put you off, the book is not biased, it is suitable for anyone involved in fabrication and is not specifically written for agriculture. It gives good clear instruction on how to weld with ARC or MIG, Brazing, Gas welding and cutting and an introduction to blacksmithing. Would be even more useful with a bigger section on welding aluminium but otherwise a very comprehensive, practical book.

Easy to read and well thought out, 06 Feb 2008
This is an easy to read well thought out and generally all round good reference for welding. Dont let the farm welding title put you off. I have found this book to be an invaluable guide for starting off MIG welding

Excellent book., 15 Sep 2005
In brief:

Buy this book if you have just bought a MIG welder and want to know how to make good welds.

The text is clear and concise and, more importantly, the pictures show you what a good weld looks like and what bad welds look like with simple explanations as to the cause of the faults and the remedies.

I bought a copy of this book when it was first published and still recommend it to beginners and those who want to improve.

Straight to the point practical welding manual for anyone, 02 Feb 2002
An excellent book for anyone who is either a skilled welder or a complete beginner. Easy to read and straight to the point. If your not involved in agriculture, do not let the title put you off, the book is not biased, it is suitable for anyone involved in fabrication and is not specifically written for agriculture. It gives good clear instruction on how to weld with ARC or MIG, Brazing, Gas welding and cutting and an introduction to blacksmithing. Would be even more useful with a bigger section on welding aluminium but otherwise a very comprehensive, practical book.

Dont bother, there are far better books out there!, 25 May 2008
As the previous reviewer says, it has little about welding cars in it. It's clearly padded out with a whole load of fairly useless technical information about welders. I expect you can get most of it for free if you write to a few welding equipment manufacturers!

No good for the beginner wanting to do car body work, 11 Jun 2007
If you want to fix a car, buy a Haynes manual. If you want to weld a car then don't. This book has a small section on mig welding with precious little car repair related information.

Easy to read and well thought out, 06 Feb 2008
This is an easy to read well thought out and generally all round good reference for welding. Dont let the farm welding title put you off. I have found this book to be an invaluable guide for starting off MIG welding

Excellent book., 15 Sep 2005
In brief:

Buy this book if you have just bought a MIG welder and want to know how to make good welds.

The text is clear and concise and, more importantly, the pictures show you what a good weld looks like and what bad welds look like with simple explanations as to the cause of the faults and the remedies.

I bought a copy of this book when it was first published and still recommend it to beginners and those who want to improve.

Straight to the point practical welding manual for anyone, 02 Feb 2002
An excellent book for anyone who is either a skilled welder or a complete beginner. Easy to read and straight to the point. If your not involved in agriculture, do not let the title put you off, the book is not biased, it is suitable for anyone involved in fabrication and is not specifically written for agriculture. It gives good clear instruction on how to weld with ARC or MIG, Brazing, Gas welding and cutting and an introduction to blacksmithing. Would be even more useful with a bigger section on welding aluminium but otherwise a very comprehensive, practical book.

Dont bother, there are far better books out there!, 25 May 2008
As the previous reviewer says, it has little about welding cars in it. It's clearly padded out with a whole load of fairly useless technical information about welders. I expect you can get most of it for free if you write to a few welding equipment manufacturers!

No good for the beginner wanting to do car body work, 11 Jun 2007
If you want to fix a car, buy a Haynes manual. If you want to weld a car then don't. This book has a small section on mig welding with precious little car repair related information.

Welder Paul, 23 May 2008
This is an excellent book for anyone wanting to learn, not only the theory necessary to pass examinations in order to qualify as a Welder but for anyone who has an interest in Welding processes. This book is excellently illustrated with photographs and sketches of high quality and helps to make the understanding of each process easier. I can highly recommend Practical Welding by Stuart W Gibson.

It does what it says on the cover, 01 Oct 2003
A comprehensive description of all types of welding for commonly used materials and practical applications but also includes easy to understand descriptions of the science making it happen as well as first aid and safety advice.

A welding text book., 03 Sep 2001
Not the introductory text I expected to help me to improve my DIY welding skills. It's more of a text book for a NVQ course, or similar and probably requires tutor guidance for optimal benefit. But it does cover some more esoteric forms of welding too, so for a wider understanding of the topic it is quite good.

A recomended book., 06 Mar 2001
This is a great book if you want to teach youself to weld with little or no other help. It has techniques for almost all types of welding, and for each of which it goes into detail about how to apply what you have learnt to real situations. Great stuff!

Excellent, practical guide for hands-on learning, 27 Apr 2000
This book was written to teach students who needed to learn how to weld, to learn quickly, and to understand everything that is of real and practical relevance to them. It manages to hit just the right balance of sufficient theory to gain understanding, but not too much to make it heavy reading. A splendid course handbook, or even a self-teaching guide.

Easy to read and well thought out, 06 Feb 2008
This is an easy to read well thought out and generally all round good reference for welding. Dont let the farm welding title put you off. I have found this book to be an invaluable guide for starting off MIG welding

Excellent book., 15 Sep 2005
In brief:

Buy this book if you have just bought a MIG welder and want to know how to make good welds.

The text is clear and concise and, more importantly, the pictures show you what a good weld looks like and what bad welds look like with simple explanations as to the cause of the faults and the remedies.

I bought a copy of this book when it was first published and still recommend it to beginners and those who want to improve.

Straight to the point practical welding manual for anyone, 02 Feb 2002
An excellent book for anyone who is either a skilled welder or a complete beginner. Easy to read and straight to the point. If your not involved in agriculture, do not let the title put you off, the book is not biased, it is suitable for anyone involved in fabrication and is not specifically written for agriculture. It gives good clear instruction on how to weld with ARC or MIG, Brazing, Gas welding and cutting and an introduction to blacksmithing. Would be even more useful with a bigger section on welding aluminium but otherwise a very comprehensive, practical book.

Dont bother, there are far better books out there!, 25 May 2008
As the previous reviewer says, it has little about welding cars in it. It's clearly padded out with a whole load of fairly useless technical information about welders. I expect you can get most of it for free if you write to a few welding equipment manufacturers!

No good for the beginner wanting to do car body work, 11 Jun 2007
If you want to fix a car, buy a Haynes manual. If you want to weld a car then don't. This book has a small section on mig welding with precious little car repair related information.

Welder Paul, 23 May 2008
This is an excellent book for anyone wanting to learn, not only the theory necessary to pass examinations in order to qualify as a Welder but for anyone who has an interest in Welding processes. This book is excellently illustrated with photographs and sketches of high quality and helps to make the understanding of each process easier. I can highly recommend Practical Welding by Stuart W Gibson.

It does what it says on the cover, 01 Oct 2003
A comprehensive description of all types of welding for commonly used materials and practical applications but also includes easy to understand descriptions of the science making it happen as well as first aid and safety advice.

A welding text book., 03 Sep 2001
Not the introductory text I expected to help me to improve my DIY welding skills. It's more of a text book for a NVQ course, or similar and probably requires tutor guidance for optimal benefit. But it does cover some more esoteric forms of welding too, so for a wider understanding of the topic it is quite good.

A recomended book., 06 Mar 2001
This is a great book if you want to teach youself to weld with little or no other help. It has techniques for almost all types of welding, and for each of which it goes into detail about how to apply what you have learnt to real situations. Great stuff!

Excellent, practical guide for hands-on learning, 27 Apr 2000
This book was written to teach students who needed to learn how to weld, to learn quickly, and to understand everything that is of real and practical relevance to them. It manages to hit just the right balance of sufficient theory to gain understanding, but not too much to make it heavy reading. A splendid course handbook, or even a self-teaching guide.

A book for scientists, not welders, 01 Feb 2002
This book gives you all the background science to welding, from steel-making and metallurgy to heat flow and electromagnetic theory, but it also covers some more practical aspects such as testing and inspection of welds. For information on the actual welding processes, though, you'll need volume 2! This book can be heavy going, but you'll not feel short changed if you really want to know about welding from the very basics.

Easy to read and well thought out, 06 Feb 2008
This is an easy to read well thought out and generally all round good reference for welding. Dont let the farm welding title put you off. I have found this book to be an invaluable guide for starting off MIG welding

Excellent book., 15 Sep 2005
In brief:

Buy this book if you have just bought a MIG welder and want to know how to make good welds.

The text is clear and concise and, more importantly, the pictures show you what a good weld looks like and what bad welds look like with simple explanations as to the cause of the faults and the remedies.

I bought a copy of this book when it was first published and still recommend it to beginners and those who want to improve.

Straight to the point practical welding manual for anyone, 02 Feb 2002
An excellent book for anyone who is either a skilled welder or a complete beginner. Easy to read and straight to the point. If your not involved in agriculture, do not let the title put you off, the book is not biased, it is suitable for anyone involved in fabrication and is not specifically written for agriculture. It gives good clear instruction on how to weld with ARC or MIG, Brazing, Gas welding and cutting and an introduction to blacksmithing. Would be even more useful with a bigger section on welding aluminium but otherwise a very comprehensive, practical book.

Dont bother, there are far better books out there!, 25 May 2008
As the previous reviewer says, it has little about welding cars in it. It's clearly padded out with a whole load of fairly useless technical information about welders. I expect you can get most of it for free if you write to a few welding equipment manufacturers!

No good for the beginner wanting to do car body work, 11 Jun 2007
If you want to fix a car, buy a Haynes manual. If you want to weld a car then don't. This book has a small section on mig welding with precious little car repair related information.

Welder Paul, 23 May 2008
This is an excellent book for anyone wanting to learn, not only the theory necessary to pass examinations in order to qualify as a Welder but for anyone who has an interest in Welding processes. This book is excellently illustrated with photographs and sketches of high quality and helps to make the understanding of each process easier. I can highly recommend Practical Welding by Stuart W Gibson.

It does what it says on the cover, 01 Oct 2003
A comprehensive description of all types of welding for commonly used materials and practical applications but also includes easy to understand descriptions of the science making it happen as well as first aid and safety advice.

A welding text book., 03 Sep 2001
Not the introductory text I expected to help me to improve my DIY welding skills. It's more of a text book for a NVQ course, or similar and probably requires tutor guidance for optimal benefit. But it does cover some more esoteric forms of welding too, so for a wider understanding of the topic it is quite good.

A recomended book., 06 Mar 2001
This is a great book if you want to teach youself to weld with little or no other help. It has techniques for almost all types of welding, and for each of which it goes into detail about how to apply what you have learnt to real situations. Great stuff!

Excellent, practical guide for hands-on learning, 27 Apr 2000
This book was written to teach students who needed to learn how to weld, to learn quickly, and to understand everything that is of real and practical relevance to them. It manages to hit just the right balance of sufficient theory to gain understanding, but not too much to make it heavy reading. A splendid course handbook, or even a self-teaching guide.

A book for scientists, not welders, 01 Feb 2002
This book gives you all the background science to welding, from steel-making and metallurgy to heat flow and electromagnetic theory, but it also covers some more practical aspects such as testing and inspection of welds. For information on the actual welding processes, though, you'll need volume 2! This book can be heavy going, but you'll not feel short changed if you really want to know about welding from the very basics.

A book for scientists, not welders, 01 Feb 2002
This book gives you all the background science to welding, from steel-making and metallurgy to heat flow and electromagnetic theory, but it also covers some more practical aspects such as testing and inspection of welds. For information on the actual welding processes, though, you'll need volume 2! This book can be heavy going, but you'll not feel short changed if you really want to know about welding from the very basics.

Easy to read and well thought out, 06 Feb 2008
This is an easy to read well thought out and generally all round good reference for welding. Dont let the farm welding title put you off. I have found this book to be an invaluable guide for starting off MIG welding

Excellent book., 15 Sep 2005
In brief:

Buy this book if you have just bought a MIG welder and want to know how to make good welds.

The text is clear and concise and, more importantly, the pictures show you what a good weld looks like and what bad welds look like with simple explanations as to the cause of the faults and the remedies.

I bought a copy of this book when it was first published and still recommend it to beginners and those who want to improve.

Straight to the point practical welding manual for anyone, 02 Feb 2002
An excellent book for anyone who is either a skilled welder or a complete beginner. Easy to read and straight to the point. If your not involved in agriculture, do not let the title put you off, the book is not biased, it is suitable for anyone involved in fabrication and is not specifically written for agriculture. It gives good clear instruction on how to weld with ARC or MIG, Brazing, Gas welding and cutting and an introduction to blacksmithing. Would be even more useful with a bigger section on welding aluminium but otherwise a very comprehensive, practical book.

Dont bother, there are far better books out there!, 25 May 2008
As the previous reviewer says, it has little about welding cars in it. It's clearly padded out with a whole load of fairly useless technical information about welders. I expect you can get most of it for free if you write to a few welding equipment manufacturers!

No good for the beginner wanting to do car body work, 11 Jun 2007
If you want to fix a car, buy a Haynes manual. If you want to weld a car then don't. This book has a small section on mig welding with precious little car repair related information.

Welder Paul, 23 May 2008
This is an excellent book for anyone wanting to learn, not only the theory necessary to pass examinations in order to qualify as a Welder but for anyone who has an interest in Welding processes. This book is excellently illustrated with photographs and sketches of high quality and helps to make the understanding of each process easier. I can highly recommend Practical Welding by Stuart W Gibson.

It does what it says on the cover, 01 Oct 2003
A comprehensive description of all types of welding for commonly used materials and practical applications but also includes easy to understand descriptions of the science making it happen as well as first aid and safety advice.

A welding text book., 03 Sep 2001
Not the introductory text I expected to help me to improve my DIY welding skills. It's more of a text book for a NVQ course, or similar and probably requires tutor guidance for optimal benefit. But it does cover some more esoteric forms of welding too, so for a wider understanding of the topic it is quite good.

A recomended book., 06 Mar 2001
This is a great book if you want to teach youself to weld with little or no other help. It has techniques for almost all types of welding, and for each of which it goes into detail about how to apply what you have learnt to real situations. Great stuff!

Excellent, practical guide for hands-on learning, 27 Apr 2000
This book was written to teach students who needed to learn how to weld, to learn quickly, and to understand everything that is of real and practical relevance to them. It manages to hit just the right balance of sufficient theory to gain understanding, but not too much to make it heavy reading. A splendid course handbook, or even a self-teaching guide.

A book for scientists, not welders, 01 Feb 2002
This book gives you all the background science to welding, from steel-making and metallurgy to heat flow and electromagnetic theory, but it also covers some more practical aspects such as testing and inspection of welds. For information on the actual welding processes, though, you'll need volume 2! This book can be heavy going, but you'll not feel short changed if you really want to know about welding from the very basics.

A book for scientists, not welders, 01 Feb 2002
This book gives you all the background science to welding, from steel-making and metallurgy to heat flow and electromagnetic theory, but it also covers some more practical aspects such as testing and inspection of welds. For information on the actual welding processes, though, you'll need volume 2! This book can be heavy going, but you'll not feel short changed if you really want to know about welding from the very basics.

Instructors Guide, 26 Jun 2001
This is the instructors Guide to the main book and consists of some guidance questions. It contains no pictures or illustrations and is not designed to assist in learning MIG or TIG Welding