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The Tack Box

Free tools for welding and fab shops.

No login. No email. Just answers. Built by the Bead Board team because we do this math every day and got tired of running it on the back of a cut list.

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Welding Shop Rate Calculator

What should you actually be charging per hour? Enter your overhead, billable hours, and target margin. Break-even rate and recommended rate, live.

Find your rate →02

Welding Cost Calculator

Estimate a weld job down to the inch. MIG, TIG, stick, flux-core. Labor, filler, gas, markup. Download a clean PDF for the customer.

Estimate a job →03

Metal Weight Calculator

Plate, pipe, bar, tube. Every common steel, stainless, and aluminum spec. Imperial or metric, one piece or a hundred.

Weigh it →

Why we built the Tack Box

We do job tracking and quoting for small welding shops. We talk to shop owners all the time and the same questions come up: what should I charge? what does this weld actually cost me? how much does a 4×8 sheet of quarter-inch plate weigh?

So we built the calculators we were already running every day, put them behind no login, and published the math. Add your shop name and logo and the PDF you download is yours, not ours.