I’ve spent more than 20 years working with metal, but not all of that work has happened on the job.
Some of the projects I’ve worked on have been part of my professional career in manufacturing and fabrication. Others have been things I’ve built, repaired or modified in my own garage.
The two are different, but I enjoy both for much the same reason: there’s something satisfying about taking a piece of material, figuring out what needs to be done and seeing it come together.
Professional Projects
This section covers selected work from my professional experience.
These projects can range from production work and fabrication to repairs, modifications and other jobs where the finished piece had to meet a particular requirement.
I’ll include photographs and details where I can, along with some of the thinking behind the work. In some cases, the interesting part isn’t the finished weld but figuring out how to get everything prepared, fitted and positioned correctly in the first place.
You can learn more about my background and experience on the About page.
Garage Projects
Not everything I build has a customer or a production schedule attached to it.
I spend time in my own garage working on projects that interest me – building things, repairing things that aren’t worth throwing away and occasionally making something simply because I wanted to see if I could. That’s a big part of what CMH Welding is about – keeping the work hands-on and making things that are useful, interesting or simply worth building.
Garage projects also give me the freedom to experiment a little more. I can try a different approach, make something from whatever material I have available or take my time working through a problem.
A Little More About the Work
A finished project doesn’t always show everything that went into it.
Before I start welding, there’s usually some combination of measuring, cutting, fitting, positioning and figuring out how everything needs to come together. Sometimes that’s straightforward. Sometimes it takes a bit of trial and error to get right.
I’ve found that documenting the work is useful because the finished weld is only part of the story.
If you’d like to see the type of welding and fabrication work I take on, I’ve covered that in more detail on my Services page.
I’ll keep adding projects here as I have the opportunity to photograph and document them.