One of the best thing's I did was join the NEB. This years fall meet is in Goshen Connecticut in a few weeks. It will be my second meet, first one was the 2017 spring meet. They had a really good demonstrator last year. And plenty of good tools for sale. Also the last Saturday of every month their is an open forge at the brentwood teaching facility. You pay 20 bucks and you get to use the forges for the whole day, really great program.