ArtMetal

Hi! My name is Rivka and I,m so happy to have found people in this planet that still raise and shape metal by hand. I sort of googled myself all the way here on my way looking for sheetmetal brass or copperor what we called in Argentina "alpaca"(not the wool but an alloy of copper brass and tin) and other supplies to make and show desadvantaged children how to make their own Hanukah Candelabras and other metalsculptures. I've also worked with clay and understand the awsome feeling of shaping/ raising metal thru heat and hammer and holy patience and determination. In my search I've even come across glass. Hot blown glass is truly infatuating and more expensive than clay or metals.
Anyways I was wondering wetheranyone out there would be able to reccomend places in and aroud Flushing , Queens for metalsmithing supplies? Such as sheet metal, soldering supplies, stakes and slices of tree trunks with Bowl depressions to start shaping, acids for cleanng etc
Thank you all and have sweet happy holydays
Sincerely Rivka