I had a friend my last year of high school that had gotten into blacksmithing. I messed around with it a bit with him, it's interesting for sure. If I were to go towards metalworking, it would probably be machine shop stuff, pick up an old manual mill and lathe. I don't know what I'd make though. If anything I should get a welder and get those skills back, I haven't welded in probably a decade.
I am surprised you can still have a bow in the UK. It would be fun, but I don't find enough time to go shoot guns as it is. I guess I could shoot a bow more easily in my yard.
Machine Shop workers skew old. Like, retirement old. It's an incredibly solid choice for a career at this point, if only because the skillset you could potentially learn now will be incredibly in demand 10-20 years from now due to attrition in the field.
I had a friend my last year of high school that had gotten into blacksmithing. I messed around with it a bit with him, it's interesting for sure. If I were to go towards metalworking, it would probably be machine shop stuff, pick up an old manual mill and lathe. I don't know what I'd make though. If anything I should get a welder and get those skills back, I haven't welded in probably a decade.
I am surprised you can still have a bow in the UK. It would be fun, but I don't find enough time to go shoot guns as it is. I guess I could shoot a bow more easily in my yard.
I have a reel lawn mower. I could mow my lawn at three in the morning and my neighbors wouldn't even know.
I know Forged in Fire definitely made blacksmithing look interesting.
Machine Shop workers skew old. Like, retirement old. It's an incredibly solid choice for a career at this point, if only because the skillset you could potentially learn now will be incredibly in demand 10-20 years from now due to attrition in the field.