On this random day in January 2024 I found my old blog about Ironworking in 2011. I do feel like updating and creating a space to learn welding online but I am not sure that a blog is the way to go. The apprenticeship and 9 years of ironworking turned out very differently than I imagined and I am now in school getting an MFA in sculpture at RISD. I doubt I will move back to the city after this but I miss some parts of outdoor construction life. I am teaching welding and sculpture this month and graduating in June. This might be a place for information after that...

in a few years...
now...


the plan is to create chronology of what the apprenticeship is like as well as a visual learning tool for others.

one page will be the brief overview...a regular update and with photos and entertaining stories

another page will be a more detailed study guide and tool for myself and others to get ready for tests and such. I use my phone a lot and would like to be able to study crane hand signals, tool names, knots and so on.

ironwork related pages:

http://www.ironworkers40.org/
http://www.nycironworkers.org/

about taking down WTC: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl8USalAriU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AApa1jgLKSE&NR=1&feature=fvwp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CQ0M0wx00s
http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2179038448/in/set-72157603671370361/