About
HomeWelder

My name is Kenny Nyhus Fadil. I've been burning rod and laying down beads at home for several years.

I started out like a lot of home welders do: buying a cheap flux-core machine off Craigslist to fix a trailer, making ugly welds, and grinding for hours to clean them up. From there I worked through every common process — stick, MIG, TIG — taking classes when I needed to and ruining a lot of coupons along the way.

Eventually I built out my own home shop, focused on the kind of work that fits in a one- or two-car garage: structural repairs, brackets and frames, custom fab, and the occasional aluminum project. When I started looking online for advice on smaller machines, garage power setups, and hobbyist-grade gear, I was blown away by how much garbage was out there.

Why This Site Exists

Too many welding blogs are written by ghostwriters who have never struck an arc in their lives, just trying to sell you cheap gear through affiliate links. They get the settings wrong, they give bad safety advice, and they make it harder for new guys to learn.

HomeWelder is different.

Whether you are just trying to stick two pieces of angle iron together for a workbench, or you're getting into precision aluminum TIG work, you'll find what you need here.

Drop the hood and let's get to work.

Home-shop welding without the macho — process selection, real PPE guidance, and the fume-control details welding ads skip.

What Homewelder Covers

This site is a working reference for MIG, TIG, and stick welding for home shops. We publish:

• Buyer’s guides — comparison tables of equipment at every price tier, with notes on what matters and what doesn’t.
• How-to articles — practical, tested procedures with the failure modes that come up in real homes and shops.
• Background explainers — the underlying technology, math, or biology so the buyer’s guides make sense.

Articles are organized into hub-and-spoke clusters around home shop welding’s major subtopics, so once you land on one piece of writing you can navigate the whole topic from there.

Who Writes This

Homewelder is written by Kenny Nyhus Fadil, who also publishes a small network of niche reference sites. I bought my first MIG welder in 2020 and have laid beads on everything from trailer repairs to garden gates since. HomeWelder is where the machine reviews, technique tutorials, and shop-safety notes live.

If a topic on this site falls outside what I’ve personally tested, I’ll say so in the article and link to the primary sources I’m relying on. Where there’s a manufacturer claim I haven’t independently verified, I’ll mark it as such.

Editorial Standards

• Independent. Homewelder accepts review samples but never guaranteed-positive coverage. We disclose review-sample relationships in the article where applicable.
• Affiliate-funded. The site is supported by affiliate commissions on outbound product links. Recommendations are not influenced by which retailer pays the highest commission. See our Disclaimer for full details.
• Updated. We revisit articles at least annually and add an “updated” date when we make material changes. Pricing, model availability, and software versions move fast — if something on the page is stale, email and we’ll fix it.
• Corrections welcomed. If you spot an error, write to [email protected]. Real corrections get noted in the article body.

What We Don’t Do

We don’t publish sponsored posts disguised as editorial. We don’t accept link-injection requests from SEO agencies. We don’t run press-release republishing. If a manufacturer wants coverage they can mail a unit for review, knowing the review will be honest.

Get In Touch

Questions, corrections, review-sample inquiries, or topic requests: [email protected].