Silvergoldberry

Thanks for the encouragement. This is a fun place with lots of info, I'm very glad I found it. Now I just need hours of time to read it all..... It's taken me about 25 years to gather my jewelry tools and I guess I'm thinking that I'm not getting any younger....LOL! I'll have to look into the bean can forge, I'm mostly working small anyway at the moment, it's just the proportions I'm used to. Where does one find a piece of RR rail? Thanks!

Greetings! I look forward to checking out the forums here. My daughter and I took a Blacksmithing course at the Jacksonville Center for the Arts in Floyd, VA back in October and I'm hooked. I've been a jeweler for many years and would now like to work in some heavy metal. Problem is I live in a row house in NE Philadelphia with only a small space under the back deck and of course the whole issue of where to start with tool purchases without going into debt. I've been improvising a little bit by heating up metal on some bricks and a magnesium block and banging on a baby anvil I have screwed down to a sawhorse. I've been using some scrap I got when the political season ended...former lawn sign frames and I've been having fun making some hooks. Where to go from here...well.. that's why I joined. I'm going to start reading about what you guys have done. Thanks! Barb