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My Suggestion for New Welder Who Want to Become Good Welder

When I started my welding journey, I thought welding is only about joining two metals. I believed if I can run a straight bead, I am a good welder. But real shop floor experience changed my thinking. Welding is not only about arc and rod — it is about discipline, patience, safety, reading drawings, understanding defects, and improving every single day.

Today, after working in fabrication shops and learning from real mistakes, I can say one thing clearly — a good welder is not born in one day. He is built slowly by practice, failure, correction, and consistency.

In this blog, I am sharing my personal suggestions for new welders who truly want to become good welders. This is not book theory. This is real ground learning in simple language.

Don’t Enter Welding Only for Money — Enter for Skill

Many new welders come into this field only after hearing salary stories from Gulf or big companies. Money is good, but if money is your only reason, you will quit early.

In starting months, welding is tough:

  • Heat
  • Sparks
  • Body pain
  • Rejected welds
  • Supervisor pressure
  • Test failures

If you don’t love learning the skill, you will feel frustrated. My suggestion — first fall in love with the process. Enjoy learning bead control, arc sound, puddle movement. When skill becomes strong, money automatically follows.

First Learn welding Basics -Don’t Rush to High Level Welding

Many new welders want to directly learn pipe welding, 6G position, or special welding. That is wrong approach.

"My suggestion for new welder during welding:-

  • "Arc control
  • Rod angle
  • Travel speed
  • Current setting
  • Slag removal
  • Straight line bead
  • Flat position welding"

If your flat and horizontal weld is not good, vertical and overhead will never be good. A strong building needs a strong foundation. The same in welding spends time in plate practice. Don’t feel shy to practice again and again.

Welding Practice on Scrap Plate - Not Only During Test

One big mistake new welders do — they practice only when test comes. That is not enough.

I used scrap plates daily for welding practice:-

  • Run straight beads
  • Try different current
  • Try different rod angles
  • Practice restarts
  • Practice crater filling

Even 20 minutes daily practice improves hand control a lot. Welding is muscle memory skill. Hand becomes stable only with repetition.

Learn to Read Your Weld Bead

Your weld bead is your report card. It tells everything so new welders should learn to this beads:-

If bead is too wide → speed slow or current high
If bead is too narrow → speed fast or current low
If undercut → wrong angle or too much heat
If slag trapped → wrong rod manipulation
If spatter high → arc length wrong

only just weld observe results. Self-check is very important. I improved faster when I started judging my own welds honestly.

"Don’t Hide Your welding mistakes - want to become good welder"

In my early days, I felt embarrassed when my weld failed. I tried to hide defects.That slowed my growth later I changed habits. I started showing my bad welds to seniors and asking:

“Where is mistake?”
“Angle wrong?”
“Heat high?”

That one question saved months of struggle.

My suggestion — never hide bad weld. Show it. Learn from it. Shame is temporary. Skill is permanent.

"Respect Your Welding Foreman and QC"

Some new welders think foreman and QC are enemies that thinking is wrong.

Foreman corrects your technique and QC checks your quality and both help you grow if you listen properly if they reject weld, don’t argue immediately first understand reason check.

  • Porosity?
  • Undercut?
  • Lack of fusion?
  • Size not matching?

Remember rejection is not an insult it is a training signal.

"Welding Safety First -Skill Second"

A burned hand cannot weld an injured eye cannot see an arc so safety is not first.

My suggestion for every new welder always use:-

  • Helmet
  • Gloves
  • Safety shoes
  • Proper clothes
  • Goggles for grinding

Never copy unsafe fast workers. Some people work careless for speed. Don’t follow them. Long career matters more than fast work.

"All Welding Machine Settings - Depend on job"

A good welder understands machines also learn first:-

  • Current adjustment
  • Polarity
  • Cable size
  • Electrode type
  • Rod storage
  • Oven use (if required)

If you only know how to hold rod but don’t understand machine, your growth stops early first ask technician or senior — how machine behaves. This knowledge helps during site problems.

"All Welding Defects knowledge"

Don’t wait for years to learn welding defects start early to understand:-

  1. "Porosity
  2. Slag inclusion
  3. Undercut
  4. Lack of fusion
  5. Crack
  6. Overlap
  7. Burn through
  8. Repair
  9. pinhole
  10. spatter
  11. incomplete penetration"

When you know defects, you weld more carefully. Your awareness increases quality automatically.

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Improve Your Position and Body Balance

New welders focus only on the rod but body position is equally important on the job.

My suggestion:

  • Sit stable
  • Support hand
  • Don’t weld in uncomfortable stretch
  • Adjust plate height if possible
  • Use proper stance

Unstable body = unstable bead. Comfort improves control.

Don’t Compare Yourself with Experience Welders

This is very important. Many new welders get demotivated seeing senior welders running perfect beads.

  1. Remember — they also started like you.
  2. Comparison kills confidence. Focus on your daily improvement:
  3. Yesterday better than today? Good.
  4. Today better than yesterday? Perfect.

That is real progress remember.

Keep Small Personal Welding Notebook

I always suggest new welders -keep a small pocket notebook for the following write:- 

  • Rod type
  • Current used
  • Position
  • Result
  • Mistake
  • Correction

This builds your personal welding database. After few months, you will have your own practical guide.

Watch, Observe, and Copy Good Welding Technique

Observe good welders:-

  • How they hold a rod.
  • How they restart the arc.
  • How they clean joints.
  • How they set an angle.
  • How they move the wrist.

Silent observation teaches a lot. I learned many tricks just by watching quietly.

Control Your Ego -Always Stay Welding Learners

Big mistake in welding careers:- early ego after a few good welds, some beginners think they are experts. Growth stops there.

My suggestion :- always keep the learner mindset. Even after years, you will find new techniques, new rods, new procedures and the skill field never ends.

"Improve Related Welding Skills Also"

To become a good welder, learn related skills also:-

  • "Grinding properly
  • Fit-up checking
  • Measuring tools
  • Drawing reading
  • WPS understanding
  • Basic inspection points"

Multi-skill welders grow faster and become foreman or inspector level later.

Take Welding Tests Seriously -Welding Test plate preparation guide

Many beginners fear welding tests. Don’t fear — use them as improvement tool.

Welding Test plate preparation guide:-

  • Edge prep
  • Root gap
  • Alignment
  • Cleaning
  • Position discipline

Even if you fail first test — don’t quit. Many good welders failed early tests.

Be Patient - Welding Mastery Takes Time

Truth — real welding confidence takes years, not weeks.

  1. First year = control learning
  2. Second year = consistency building
  3. Third year = quality awareness

Don’t rush mastery. Build it slowly and strongly.

"My Final Words for New Welders"

If you truly want to become a good welder, remember my simple formula:-

  1. Practice daily
  2. Accept mistakes
  3. Follow safety
  4. Respect seniors
  5. Learn defects
  6. Control ego
  7. Stay patient

Welding is honest skill. It rewards people who stay consistent. Not fast learners — but regular learners become great welders.

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