kel

Hi My hubbie is a blacksmith, here in brittany, although he travels throughtout france.  He is busy (very) and as well as working for the english, he also works for french architechs.  All his work is hand forged, but its still near on impossible to run a profitable business because of the high cotisations and also the insurances you need, as he also sometimes welds on site.  If you are looking to start up look into the travil independent - I don't know if its ok for this kind of work, but if you can do this it maybe better, if you are a micro you have to pay standard cotisations even if you have no work. Best of luck