My father-in-law's father did a lot of very cool metal work art that's around my wife's grandmas house and it does make me think about how fun that would be.  But seriously though, I get it, and frankly I'm not a fan of people who drop $10,000 to pick up a hobby talk about it for 2 weeks and then storage all the shit.  I am going to start studying the ancient greek though, it seems like the more important endeavor at the moment