I am looking for the potential viability of starting a smith/fabrication shop in Southern Alberta. I have a background in Industrial fabrication, metallurgy and my family did a lot of custom fabrication. I have been working metal and welding as well as creating things since I was 8 years old.
In my current role I do not get a lot of exercise and the process of creating software for someone else is really unfulfilling. My intent is to branch when i get my own place this year and to start to work up to a fabrication shop. I would like to explore smithing as well because this is something apparently my Scandinavian family did a lot of and was known for in Norway. I have a forged visa which dates back a couple hundred years.
So I am on here to determine viability and how a person starts down this road?
