00 Straight from the carousels
The slides are the short version.
Every carousel on that account is three or four paragraphs lifted out of a much longer answer. This is where the rest of it lives. Written by a welder who is still in a shop most days.
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06 Look inside
Real pages. Not a sales page in a PDF.
Rate tables, certification costs, checklists and diagrams you can actually use on a job. Swipe to see what you are buying.
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08 Get it
Twenty dollars. Read it tonight.
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Thirty days. No hoops.
Read the whole thing. If it does not tell you something you did not already know, reply to the receipt inside thirty days and we refund you in full. You keep the file. We would rather have the feedback than the money.
09 The rest of the shelf
Four more, for when you want the craft rather than the career.
The Playbook is about the trade. These are about the work. Each one stands on its own, and they were all written the same way.
- 01 TIG Field Guide Heat, arc length, angle, gas and cleanliness.
- 02 MIG Field Guide Settings, the four things your hands control, and how to see inside your own weld.
- 03 Blueprint Reading for Welders Three complete shop drawings, decoded line by line.
- 04 The Fabricator Layout, tolerance, brake math, distortion and inspection.
- 05 All four, as a set The whole shelf. Sixty dollars bought singly.
10 Straight answers
Questions we get asked.
No, and anyone selling you that in a PDF is lying to you. You learn to weld with the hood down and a lot of rod. This is everything around that: which certification to chase, what the work pays, how to get hired, and how to not lose three years in the wrong shop.
Parts four through six are written for you. Certification strategy, reading an offer properly, per diem math, going traveller, and real numbers on running your own rig. Part one tends to change how people look at the rate they are currently accepting.
A PDF. It downloads the second you pay, it reads fine on your phone, and it prints clean if you want a copy for the truck.
Published sources, cited on the page they appear on. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the American Welding Society, published union scales, wage aggregators and program tuition pages. Where something is an opinion rather than a figure, it says so.
It is a PDF. There is one optional add on at checkout for weld test prep, and that is the end of it. No membership, no coaching call, no webinar, no phone number to book.
Email us inside thirty days and we refund you in full. You keep the file. We are not going to argue with you about it.
The wage data, certifications and job paths are United States focused, and the certification part covers CWB for Canada. The skill, safety and career sections apply anywhere, but go in knowing the rate tables are US figures.
Dakota, a working welder. His photo, his certifications and what he actually welds are further down this page, and there is more at About Dakota.
