Hey thanks for the welcome guys! And thanks Grundsau for the info about that meeting in Quakertown. Its a couple hours north of me but I know the area a bit from driving truck. I'm going to rearrange my saturday and try to come up there. I so often in life have tried to do it all alone for lack of a proper teacher, dad, whatever the excuse. But I can see already that this hobby really could benefit from me seeking out professionals and picking their brain, taking notes, just learning by osmosis if need be. Hope to see u there. And Frosty, it's funny you bring up forge welding and refer to it as being mystical. Because right now, from my point of view, it is just that. Without a good demonstration and some pointers it may as well be magic to me. BTW I just noticed your location. I visited the Olympic National Forest last year because my older brother lives near Seattle. Dont know if it compares to your neck of the woods but I basically wanted to move there immediately. When I got home I searched for a patch of earth for sale for quite some time online. Funny how hard it is to move the older you get though. So anyhow, eye hand coordination was never a problem for me but then I was always messing around with everything I could get my hands on. Although that being said, I can see I got a helluva lot to learn. As far as what I wanted to be when I grew up, and what my folks wanted for me.... always was a curmudgeony know-it-all even as a kid. Heck I was gonna just get paid to do that! Turns out it's better to just have a plan. Not even a good plan, any plan. Who knew? I know I didn't.
