Hey man, just go take a welding class if you are having issues getting the hang of it. I took a class at the local community college years back and we didn't even get to do mig welding or tig. But they handed us an oxy acetylene torch and some coat hangers and spent 6 weeks of classes playing with that and brazing and then onto stick welding for the 2nd half of the class. I learned a lot from that and if you can stick 2 pieces of metal together with a coat hanger and a torch, you are gonna be a boss at mig.
Or just skip the wax on wax off coat hanger class and go take a mig class.
You have the passion for the fab, but some things certain people just pick up on their own, and some people just need to go get some training.
Its crazy the difference you get by somebody teaching you something in person, compared to watching a youtube video IMO.
I remember the teacher going "don't listen to all the bullshit patterns people tell you that you need to do" and then he would do a circle pattern, or a zig zag, pattern and say "ok look at these, now this next pattern is called getting old" and he would just shake the shit out of his hands while laying a bead and come out with the same end result....
Find out the pattern and setup that works for you and tell everybody else to fock off.
