I'd like to do a blacksmith course myself. I'm just coming to the end of a milling and turning course I managed to get my company to pay for, wonder if I could blag a blacksmith course, they can be quite accommodating on occasion.
I once made a ships nail on a mobile forge at Glastonbury festival, not impressive I know but it was enough for the bug to bite. Funnily enough, while my pals were getting wasted listening to the bands I pretty much never left the craft field, I did a limestone block sculpture course and a flint napping course with a great hairy chap dressed in animal skins 🙂 I made a spear head that I'm actually quite proud of.