This year I started down the road to making our own studio for the garage. It started off with buying a little MIG welder. A trip to the local scrap metal dealer and I had as much steel to practice with as I would need for a long time.
I spent time cutting and welding metal until I finally felt that I could go ahead and make an attempt at a first piece of studio equipment. I started in on a marver (steel top table for forming glass)
A bunch of cutting, welding, and clamping and I have a marver! Next onto the glory hole.