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stick is...harder to get the hang of.
This is why I'm avoiding MIG, I've been told it's too easy so you don't learn anything from doing it.
Have done some Tig at the class now though and that's a whole different class to stick, would love to be able to practice Tig more often but will take some persuading for my folks to let me keep a tig setup in their garage I think.
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100% agree TIG is where it's at for almost anything.
MIG is easy For anyone to do badly, but mastering it is harder and will make you a better TIG welder IMO. Angle of the torch, welding together materials of different thickness, what a decent weld looks like, you'll learn that from MIG.
Stick is just too crude for most smaller fabricating applications.
MIG is great for tacking things up one handed too..
M_A_X
Stump up the extra cash for a MIG welder, stick is far too crude for thin walled bike tubes and harder to get the hang of.