Eli Larson

Welding Instructor

My name is Elisha Hiram Larsen, but everyone calls me Eli. I am a welding instructor; I have been welding since I was nineteen years old. What first got me into welding was making a sculptor for my art class. I ended up making wine racks and pretty soon, I was hooked. I ended up learning a bunch of different moves and techniques and forms of welding. I soon started learning about the different kinds of metal. Then pretty soon I started working odd and end jobs. I went to building wine racks to repairing cars, fixing race tracks, building parts for a ship, I repaired aluminum rims, to working on pieces of pipe, building and repairing trailers, and I have worked on a lot of sheet metal.

My goal, is for someone to leave my classroom and to learn something they never thought they could do. For a student to be able to go out and repair parts of a tractor or fabricate car parts. There is a lot of knowledge that I want to teach and show my students. I would want my students to be able to know that, "there is no such thing as a dumb question, you are dumb for not asking the question."

Tags: Welding

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