I Have Been on 6G for Years: Pipe Welder Tee

6G is a pipe welding test position. The pipe is fixed at 45 degrees, it does not turn, and the welder works all the way around it: flat, vertical and overhead in one weld. It is the hardest of the standard positions and the cert that gets a pipe welder hired.

Everybody else is on 5G. So a man announcing 6G reads as a phone brag, or as slightly deluded, and strangers commit to that in about a second. The gap between those two readings is the shirt.

Filed as a welder qualification record. The sentence stays whole, because the two characters on their own are not the joke.

What it is

• Unisex softstyle tee, 4.5 oz/yd² (153 g/m²)
• 100% ring-spun cotton in the solid colors. Sport Grey is a 90% cotton, 10% polyester blend, and Dark Heather is 65% polyester, 35% cotton
• Double stitched neckline and sleeves, side seamed, tear away label
• Sizes S through 3XL
• Fourteen colors. Seven light ones printed in near black ink, seven dark ones printed in cream

Where it comes from

Custom printed in the USA. Every shirt is printed here, one at a time, on a soft cotton blank woven overseas.

Nothing is printed until you order it, so nothing sits in a warehouse and nothing gets thrown away.

Getting it to you

Free US shipping on orders $45 and up. Under that it is a flat $8.00. We make it after you order it, which takes 2 to 5 business days, and it then takes 3 to 4 business days to reach you from a US facility. Most orders arrive in 5 to 9 business days. You get a tracking number by email as soon as the label is created.

Care

Machine wash cold, inside out, gentle cycle. Tumble dry low or hang dry. Do not iron the print.

The Natural colorway

Natural has small dark speckles through the fabric. That is the undyed cotton showing, and it is expected rather than a fault.