Hi Paul, welcome to the group.
Look at the albums and you'll find lots of hand tools and some assembled tools you may get the welders in your work to show you how to assemble when you have the the prepared pieces.
I am also in Portland and work on motorcycles. Only a basement machinist but I do weld. My time since birth has been spent in learning the way "they" used to do it, and the forge in my metal shop does get lit-up every once in a while.
Again Welcome.
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Doug
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