he saw while searching for the keywords “welded art.” Jason Baxley, another Pinterest user, took welding up as a hobby two years ago. He also pins welding-related photos to use for project ideas. Shown is a yard flower he created using a motorcycle brake rotor — Fig. 5. “I started using Pinterest to find cool ideas for beginner-level welding projects. Tutorials and pinned videos were especially helpful at first. Now I also share pictures of my own projects and little ‘how to’ descriptions so others can also do it.” To Sum Up You can find a wealth of welding pictures and videos on Pinterest. You can use it to find ideas for projects or share your own, to browse through products you may want to purchase, to watch tutorial videos and find DIY infographics, or just to look at pictures of other people welding for inspiration. Whatever you may use Pinterest THE AMERICAN WELDER for, I warn you, it is addictive! Make sure you have a couple of free hours on your hands because you will not be able to stop scrolling, clicking, and pinning to your own boards once you see all the amazing material available. “Just like any other social media site, Pinterest can be anything we make it. I created a board for my pins called ‘My Dream Welding,’ and I went hog wild posting Pinterest’s best welding pictures,” said Andy Kneis in his article My Dream Welding: A Man and his Undying Love of Pinterest (Ref. 1). “Pinterest is my canvas, and my pins are the paint I slop all over it.” References 1. Kneis, A. 2012. My dream welding: A man and his undying love of pinterest. www.andything.wordpress.com. 86 WELDING JOURNAL / AUGUST 2015 MELISSA GOMEZ (mgomez@aws.org) is assistant editor of the Welding Journal. For info, go to www.aws.org/ad-index For info, go to www.aws.org/ad-index WJ
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