Hand on heart that is the one and only bead gap was about 3mm hence the piece of 5mm rod which happened to be high tensile but flowed beautifully.Very good, now lets ee some you haven't ground back and then washed over
Arc length is very good
Part of a chair, I put a curve in the rod so it fit better and did figure of 8's to blend it with the base metalis this a motorcycle frame? laywire means that you had the rod flat on the gap and welded with "small circles" over?