color odds and making yourself use them.-)

I always end up with large collections of small remnants of color rod, and throw them aside and tend to forget them all together, but I force myself to use them, and I always end up with several hundred dollars at least worth of sellable art when I use them up. try it sometime, it feels like free money, evern though you did pay for it.-)

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[dangunit69]

Easy way to use up your color as you go is to just weld a clear rod "handle" to the color as it gets short. Then as you get down to the last inch or so, attatch another "handle" to the opposite side, heat the whole color section and pull into desirable size stringers. This lets you work comfortably and when you finish using every last scrap of color, you just weld the "handle" to a new piece of scrap. Put your pieces in cans with the color up and this also organizes your scrap by size.

[acroduster]

heck yes! I used this method and still do a lot! I have fallen in love with my rod holder!-) it makes it pretty fast, and then when I get down to the last 3/4 inch, then I pull it out as stringer.-) this is good advice! I was lucky enough to see it in action early when getting started. short color rods spell burns. thanks for the comment!

[Moto421]

@acroduster

They make a special tool just for holding short ends of rods?

[acroduster]

@Moto421 yes, rod holders are a life saver, or at the very least a finger and hand saver, I would highly recommend that you get a set of rod holders, they are worth their weight in gold

[dangunit69]

I do the same thing with my TIG welding rod, and I am notorious for never throwing away my barstock and billet scrap, I just know they will call to me when something quick or odd needs to be machined. Another tip for those shorties is to pull a Suellen Fowler and take two or more color nubs and heat and kneed them together to make a custom color (how do you think she invented all those Northstar colors, adding oxides to short tubes and melting n' mix), not all turn out, but SOMETIMES, WOW!!!!

[I8pikachu]

I love your scrap pieces... You should do more random scrap art.

[tigermonkeydragon]

I got box about that size and its almost full, lol

i should do that

[666ThaScarecro666]

dang these videos are too short.