MIG is stupid easy. It's a hot melt glue gun with protective equipment. Frankly the whole world has gotten easier now that you can buy an auto-darken visor for like $50. The only downside is vanishingly few people actually need to weld anything so the world ends up with awkward scrap-metal constructions scattered about.

Know what sets an amateur and a professional apart? Intent.

There's a Metal Supermarkets in Ottawa. They'll cut any steel you buy for like $100. They'll even give you the patterns - they had a cool velociraptor that fit on a 4x8 sheet. Then you get it powder-coated for another $150. Now, instead of a bunch of random junk welded into random, larger junk you have an actual public-works grade sculpture that people other than the welder can appreciate.

- Signed,

someone who went through 40lbs of 6011 and 10lbs of baling wire before he could legally buy cigarettes

ALTERNATIVELY

See this thing? It's the same as this thing. It uses hypodermic needles as jets, at least if you swap out the handpiece for something that isn't a useless Chinese chunk of shit. And if you have a hydrogen welder and silver solder, you can make peculiar assemblages of desktop garbage that you can call "art", which takes up a lot less room than peculiar assemblages of workshop garbage that you can call "art."