I took the "Ornamental Iron" class at the local JC just for grins. I was welding by the time I was 13, and then 20sum years in Operating Engineers I had burnt a few rods. The instructor had quite a rep as being really good at his craft, so I figured, why not. "You've done this before" he said to me one night. "A little" I says. I got to play with rollers and tools I had never messed with before. They had many examples around the shop to get ideas from, floor lamps, gates, wall hangings. When my project was done, "You have to let me put that in our craft show" he says, "I have never seen anything like that". It was just a Christmas candle holder that would spin or sway. I got to play with scrollers, rollers, plasma cutters, and other tools that just don't show up around rock plants :lol: or asphalt plants.