Fibre-Metal by Honeywell

I've been taking an intro welding course and plan to attend technical school for the same, so I wanted a welding hood of my own. I first ordered a Tigerhood because I liked the flip-up lens, not knowing there were other differences between that model and this one. I was pretty disappointed with the Tigerhood - it's made of floppy thermoplastic and pretty big. I've heard it's good for doing overhead welding for that reason. But I'm doing most of my welding in front of me at about sternum height, and the Tigerhood gets in the way doing that kind of stuff. The Tigerhood's headgear also came apart during class.I exchanged it for this one. After handling this Pipeliner I think the Tigerhood I got had a problem with the hinge. I switched out the Pipeliner hinge screws for some knurled metal ones either way, but the hinge screws on this one, while plastic, felt very, very solid.I'm a lot happier with the Pipeliner. It feels like how I was expecting it to feel. The construction is pretty good - I saw some people had problems with the edges of their hood being unfinished and jaggedy but everything looks OK on mine. The cream-colored paintjob is fine too - pretty poor surface finish but who cares, it's gonna get beat up anyway. The headgear had some rough spots on the band from the molding process - a quick xacto trim cleared it up. I'll probably end up chopping the bottom a little but as it is this will suit me just fine.

It’s a sugar scoop, do I have to say anything? Great hood nothing better.

Best hoods money can buy. I have a few of them for different trucks and tool boxes can’t beat them and I haven’t broke one yet. But the head gear leaves a lot to desire. I have miller headgear in all mine.

All the bad reviews are probably from shop welders. Working in the field, this is one of the best lids

Purchased for a welder and he loves it. I ordered several others and this one worked the best. We replaced the glass and cut it down some to fit better. It’s light so you don’t have the weight exhaustion at the end of the day.