Welding Specialist · Pine Ridge Reservation · Black Hills, South Dakota
I stitch metal on the edge of the prairie. Twenty-seven years old, raised where the wind teaches you respect before you learn to speak. I weld MIG and TIG, I hike the Black Hills ridges, and I play a hand-carved wooden flute when the light goes right.
This is a workshop log — not a portfolio. Field guides, calculators, film, and notes from the bench. The kind of thing I'd carry in my helmet case.
Every weld is a landscape. The fusion zone is the fault line. The HAZ is the weathered plateau. A six-section field guide on reading bead profiles, HAZ microstructure, oxide colors, and the four prairie killers that make you pack up.
Interactive tool: enter wind speed, process, nozzle size, and base flow. Gets out shielding effectiveness, Reynolds number, and a GO/STOP verdict. Grounded in AWS D1.1.
Three sections of thermal truth: the heat input equation, material conductivity tables, and Fourier's law as it applies to the weld puddle. With field notes from the Black Hills.
45-second hyperframe documentary. The physics of the arc strike — from tungsten hover to stable plasma. Rendered to 4ort.mov.