As the owner of Shop Outfitters, I have had over a half century of experience in the metal fabricating industry. I grew up working with my dad in his welding an ornamental business in Tucson, Arizona. My father built a lot of his own tools. He was pretty ingenuous at producing some impressive ironwork considering he did not have the kind of specializes tools that our company manufactures today and ships to many foreign countries. The first photo below shows some of the items he built it Tucson.