Apprentice's First Weld

Happy Solstice brothers and sisters! Hope you all are warm, fed, get presents, and have a great time!

I've been watching my Journeyman and some of the other guys on the job site tig welding for a while now, and wanted to try.

I've been borrowing his hood the past week and he's been letting me tack weld stainless fittings.

I told him I wanted to try actually welding up a fitting, and he told me if I get my own hood he'll let me. So I got one from Lowe's on Thursday after work, and he let me do a couple on Friday.

This was one of them, and I wanted to get some feedback on it from others. He said he's never seen a weld that didn't have a clear pattern of someone walking it. I asked him if that's a bad thing, and he said no, it's just weird seeing it like that. He said good job, it'll hold, and it actually looks better than the work of another guy on the job.

So, how'd I do?