The Welder journal begins life as part inside the pages of The Fabricator starting within the January 2026 subject. Ergin Yalcin/E+
If you’re studying this in {a magazine}, you’ve got just a little piece of historical past in your fingers. That is the final stand-alone subject of The Welder.
Printing {a magazine} and sending it to subscribers by way of the U.S. postal system is just not a rising enterprise mannequin. The web has democratized the flexibility to disseminate info, even welding-related suggestions, information protection, and options. It’s a really powerful competitor.
However The Welder had a reasonably good run. The publication began life as Sensible Welding Right this moment, with the launch of its July/August 1997 subject. Positioned as an alternative choice to the American Welding Society’s Welding Journal and its pages stuffed with analysis papers and chapter information, PWT was organized for the welder on the store flooring. Troubleshooting articles helped readers enhance their weld high quality. Consumers’ guides supplied them with instruments for selecting the tools that may work greatest for them. Technical articles broadened welders’ views, introducing new applied sciences to them and getting them to consider cost-saving and steady enchancment actions.
Through the years, we began that includes extra welders, those that have been in enterprise for years, welders simply beginning out, artists who love working with steel, and instructors growing the subsequent era of welders. We ditched the printed patrons’ guides and moved them to thefabricator.com in a bid to dedicate extra pages to tales and expertise developments from the welding group. We shared the voices of many editors and columnists.
And who can neglect the relaunch of the journal with the September/October 2017 subject? The Welder made its debut on the 2017 FABTECH in Chicago. This relaunch included the debut of Welding Hacks, a short-lived division the place welders had been paid for his or her suggestions and tips, and the Enjoying With Fireplace column by welder and common contributor Josh Welton. The publication additionally recommitted itself to sharing extra welders’ tales—and lifting the hood to disclose the faces that had devoted themselves to the craft.
Not all is misplaced, nonetheless. Whereas The Welder will now not exist as its personal publication, the model will reside on within the pages of The Fabricator. Showing each different month, beginning with the January 2026 subject of The Fabricator, The Welder will proceed to incorporate the acquainted content material that has made it a favourite with its readers. It’ll simply be a piece inside one other well-liked publication.
In a means, this migration into The Fabricator is sensible. Welding is part of nearly each steel fabrication store, and there isn’t hardly a welding store that isn’t being requested to do extra fabricating. Actually, corporations are on the lookout for folks able to taking up a number of store flooring roles as a result of they supply flexibility, shifting from one space to a different when wanted.
Having stated that, welding remains to be the very best basis for anybody contemplating a profession in steel fabricating. The talents shall be wanted, even in essentially the most automated settings. Welding additionally gives an understanding of how elements come collectively and the way upstream processes have an effect on effectivity and high quality.
So, one chapter closes, and one other one begins. We hope you proceed to take pleasure in The Welder, even when it is perhaps in a barely completely different bundle.
