Places I have found friendly people to share information with.

I really like for 7 day free trials	This is great place to learn a language. There are friendly students that help each other. The teachers keep everything interesting with a sense of humor and short lessons built around memorable conversations.
	Este es un gran lugar para aprender un idioma. Hay estudiantes que se ayudan entre sí. Los profesores mantienen todo interesante con buen sentido del humor y las lecciones son cortas, las cuales tratan de conversaciones simplemente memorables.

Chris Wilson Studios

or where I honed my tool addiction

 The Guild of Metalsmiths  Minn - Wisc group of metalsmiths.

The Sandbox - the original mail list from the artmetal project,  Join the oldest metal art discussion group on the internet.
 - - - Started in the early 90's as part of the Artmetal project at Washington University, Mo. This list is now hosted by James Binion, one of the early members and authors in the project since founder, Enrique (QuiQue) Vega, has decided to move  ArtMetal to a blog format. 

Check them both out. The mail list is kind of a friendly water cooler chatter amongst some very talented artists and educators.  The ArtMetal blog, and its archives of the original Washington U project are one of the larger repositories of metal working information on the web.

 - Last year, 2007, we have the honor of hosting the third annual ArtMetal Shindig. Artmetal members from all over the country (sometimes the world) get together to play with metal, renew friendships, and make new ones.  Last year's shindig was  over Father's Day Weekend.    Welding, pounding, pouring, feasting, and generally having a good time.  This year the get together will be in NC. Check out ArtMetal for more info.

Resource pages:

• Materials

  General materials properties
  Database

  • Copper

    European Database = http://www.cda.org.uk/
    US Database = http://www.copper.org/

  • Aluminum

• Techniques