Where I'm located, it is hard to find any kind of metal working courses. I've found a few welding courses, though. One is for people without high school diplomas (so I'm overqualified), one is at an art school, and one is a continuing education course through a university. The continuing ed course costs 3 times as much as the one at the art school, even though both take the same amount of time. The art school also has a second course on welding, called "Advanced welding".
What I'm wondering is whether one can adequately learn welding for metal work from an art school, or whether there is some basic difference in approach that makes it undesirable to learn welding at an art school? I figure that artists are just as interested as anyone else in making sure that what they build doesn't fall down, so I'm inclined to think the art school would be perfectly adequate.
The art school also gives a course in metal casting, but this doesn't include sand casting. In the absence of anything better, I'd be inclined to take it anyway.
I don't know whether it would be too much to hope that by taking these courses, I would also meet people interested in other aspects of metal work and thereby find more opportunities to learn about it or find space to work.
There are courses at other places in woodworking. I think this might include lathe work, but I'm skeptical that learning to use a lathe for woodworking would properly prepare me for metal working on a lathe.
Ignorantly, Allan Adler snipped-for-privacy@zurich.ai.mit.edu
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