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Yes brazing would be easier I understand. I thought for my practice, apart form bicycles, tig will be more beneficial however. But I am not ruling out brazing yet. My reference to stick / mig, was to learn this as an intro, then progress onto tig. Or should I try a find a TIG course to begin with ?
tom-g-
I reckon just dive into TIG. Its pretty hard, so whatever happens it will take a while before you feel like you can put together a frame. Its not that other welding would be pointless, its valuable to learn to manipulate a puddle in any welding method, but itd be a better bet to borrow a mates kit and spend a few afternoons melting stuff to get the feel for it, rather than embark on a full course, as i think after a bit you'll be wanting to just get the TIG hoodtime.
Ultimately for most stuff you can spend a few weeks learning MIG off youtube and be fairly successful. But with TIG it took me 4/5 months of frequent practice to get to the stage where i could weld a frame together sort of successfully and it was shite. It wasnt until probably frame 3 or 4 where i started to get the hang of it.
Biggles567
If you want to do bike stuff, an easier entry into joining metal in an effective way is brazing.