Originally Posted by
CJ57
I'd just like to add that all of the equipment you've mentioned is rather specialised and expensive to start off your workshop. That's the thing about being in a college environment, every tool is to hand and you don't think about improvising. It was years before stakes and rolling mills were on my list, you can do a great deal of forming with rolling pins, darning mushrooms and other household items you might find or going after cheap tool boxes at auctions.
I wish I could find the wooden doming punches that were available, I still find myself going back to the top of a dolly peg for a gentler finish, I maybe need to but myself a new set of steels!
I agree that longer courses would enable you to use the equipment available and stretch your capabilities without buying the equipment, you often find that you move on to something else then you have expensive tools gathering dust and only used rarely
Do you have a basic set of tools to begin with, that was my starting point
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