The 10 Highest Rated Custom Welding Masks (Helmets) For 2022

The first of our reviews is Neiko’s 53932A auto-darkening helmet. It’s lightweight and battery-powered, designed to provide ultimate levels of comfort, safety, and protection. It features two entirely independent arc sensors and boasts a superb darkening reaction of 1/25000 seconds, provides protection from UV and IR lights, and it’s suitable for work with metal welders and TIG welders.

Neiko’s headgear provides a large lens with enhanced optics, but what makes it so cool is the red skull-like shape and design. You’ll be able to look good while you weld without having to fret about eye safety.

Next up on the menu is Lincoln’s Electric helmet – it’s a full-face battery powered mask which boasts a wide viewing area (3.81 inches by 1.75 inches). This remarkable item comes outfitted with two arc sensors (the smaller one on top is for heavy-duty work), both of which are impact resistant and clear, packed with auto-darkening ability.

As for the aesthetic part, Lincoln’s design looks profoundly exquisite, sporting skull and chain prints across the all-black design.

Colibrox’s solar mask boasts superb circuit design and it starts working at the moment you put it on. The auto-darkening feature of this exceptional headgear is top-shelf, as the special observing window tends to darken as soon as the sparks start coming out from the arc.

It also boasts sturdy fire-retardant materials and doesn’t cost a fortune, but these are not the only things that make it so good – it’s the flamed skull prints that people usually like the most about Colibrox’ solar mask.

Antra’s mask is one of our favorites, but it’s also among the most expensive models we’ve come across. It’s practically weightless, weighing only a pound, and it’s suitable for Arc, MIG, plasma cutting, and TIG applications. What’s more, it comes outfitted with a digital LED display, sports bright sensitivity, and comes supplied with a convenient “delay” setting.

It’s easy to use it, even in exceptionally dark environments – its viewing size is 3.86 inches by 3.50 inches, and you’ll be able to watch the entire process via four premium-quality sensors.

Audew’s solar helmet is one of the funkiest ever – it features a large skull-like print with human eyes on the side, and what makes it look even more sinister is the all-black design. High temperatures won’t hinder this protective gear, and it’s equally good for welding as it is for grinding.

The viewing area of this item isn’t exemplary, but it’s excellent given the price – it measures 3.62 inches by 1.66 inches. What we really liked about it is the auto darkening response time – the screen will put a comforting shade across within the time gap of 1/30000 seconds.

Lotos brings us some of the coolest looking headgear available for the money – their HM03 solar powered headgear boasts a superb darkening response time (1/30000 seconds). It’s solar powered, although it primarily works on lithium batteries, and offers impeccable UV and IR protection.

This is an incredibly robust piece of equipment – the brand boasts that you’ll be able to use it for approximately ten years before it gives out.

A bright, burning face is what most people see when they take a look at this mask – Save Phace might be the best headgear a welder could dream of, although it does cost an arm and a leg. This particular model is incredibly lightweight, features multi-point halo headgear for ultimate comfort, and comes supplied with adjustable ADF.

Here we have yet another marvelous item from Save Phace – the Venom-style mask. Spiderman fans are well aware of the fact that Venom has huge eyes and incredible reflexes – maybe that’s the reason why this helmet offers a huge viewing area (23 square inches approximately). Even though it costs quite a bit, it is durable, sports fire-retardant materials, and will preserve your eyes while you’re doing your job.

Lincoln’s Electric Viking 3350 is a nylon all-face helmet with a viewing area of 3.74 inches by 3.34 inches. It’s a pricey but valuable item with ADF controls which boasts a solar switching speed of 1/25000 seconds. Apart from the incredible area of view, it sports modern, funky looking graphics.

The last item in our review comes from Coocheer and is perhaps the most controversial piece of equipment we’ve come across. It features a semi-naked anime girl graphic, but it’s suitable for both men and women. You can use it for light and medium-duty work, as it boasts fire-retardant, durable properties and materials.

Auto-darkening helmets are meant for professional welders who face heavy-duty industrial chores on a daily basis. Strong, heavy machines emit brighter “flames,” hence it’s only logical that regular protective masks won’t do the trick.

The auto-darkening feature will narrow down your field of vision. However, your eyes will be less exposed to harmful brightness, thus negating some of the consequences and lowering the risk of blindness or eye damage.

Even though they’re not hard to find, picking a good auto-darkening helmet might be a tricky job. That’s the reason why we’ve prepared for you this review of the best custom models, so take your pick.

There’s a perfectly logical explanation why some helmets feature extra lens covers – namely, certain machines emit too much heat, making it simply impossible to look at through regular protective masks. By applying another “layer” of cover, the wearer’s eyes will be more protected.

What’s more, certain machines (especially gas-powered ones) emit radiation apart from regular heat-based emissions and sparks, which is a reason why further reinforcement is needed.