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Brett R.

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  1. Right on! Thanks man. I hear ya on the stalker chicks. Sometimes you just have to know when to stay away... Are these the guys?: http://www.ericwstephenson.com/
  2. Thanks for the thoughts Etown. Also, thread bump if anyone is interested in opening their shop up in the Chicago/southern WI area. Willing to contribute $, work hours, beer, etc. for the privilege.
  3. WOW! Indeed, thanks for laying that all out for me. Very much appreciated!
  4. Thanks for the nice welcome and comments! Unfortunately, I wont be able to make it June 6-8. I spend a lot of my time on a sailboat racing crew, and that weekend is a big event for us here in Chicago. I will have to catch the next one! Or possibly a different one in the Midwest? Sounds like that would be a perfect place for me to start meeting others and picking up tools. Hopefully pretty soon I will have something set up to forge and I can post some new projects. So much time away from pounding metal leaves me with nothing but ideas! Can anyone make comments on gas vs. coal. All of my experience is with a Forgemaster propane forge. Also are there any particular brands of forge to look for or stay away from?
  5. 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:
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