Let me first introduce myself. 28 yr old living in Cary, IL. I got into forging when I was in high school. I was lucky enough to go to a school that had a pretty nice little forging setup. I was one of the only students to use it, so there wasn't much in the way of instruction. But I was lucky enough to have a very supportive jewelry/metalworking teacher who kept the propane tanks full and the metal rack stocked for me. Pretty much let me do anything I wanted back there! I forged as much as I could in school for a couple years.
Anyway, that all passed when I graduated from high school and I decided to go to college to get a degree in business. Ever since then I have wanted to get back to forging and be able to be creative with metal again.
I have been wanting to set up a shop of my own, but am not really sure where to start. I don't know where to get tools or really have solid ideas about where I would put it.
So I am wondering: Anyone know of a place I could go to work on projects?
Thanks in advance! Here is a pic of my last project that I completed almost 10 years ago: