Regular readers will recognise this as the third part of a series exploring blacksmithing for those who have perhaps always fancied having a go but have never quite known where to start. It’s written ...

Any way you look at it, blacksmithing is a punishing trade. Heavy tools, a red-hot forge, flying sparks, and searing metal all exact a toll on the smith’s body unless precautions are taken. After ...

On a whim, I popped into the Central Virginia Blacksmith Guild 25th Anniversary Hammer-In. The three-day event took place at the Chesterfield County Fairgrounds March 10 - 12. I enjoyed the heck out ...

Pieces of red-hot steel were shaped into close to 200 useful or decorative items Saturday as area blacksmiths gathered for the annual Hammer-In event at Laughlintown’s Compass Inn Museum. Visitors ...

With a resounding CLANG, Dave Kauffman brings the hammer down on the magma-red steel, showering the area around his anvil with glowing, 2,000-degree sparks. Kauffman is a blacksmith, and showing ...

A shower of orange sparks crackled from the end of an iron rod as Steve Gensheimer hammered it into form atop an anvil. But he was only able to get in a few smacks before the glow would fade. Then it ...

COTTRELLVILLE TWP. - Matt Moline has the radio on at his shop on Marine City Highway, but he's banging out his own beat, a chorus scored for hammer and anvil. Moline is a blacksmith, and this is the ...

The Deanery Project in Lower Ship Harbour, N.S., will be host to a lot of heat and hammering on Saturday. Blacksmiths from across the Maritimes will hold a traditional hammer-in event where techniques ...

For some, it's the ability to fashion decorative and useful tools for use around the home or workshop. For others, it's a chance to connect an artistic sensibility with a traditional art form. And for ...

HANOI, Vietnam — He is the last blacksmith on Blacksmith Street, dark with soot, his arms dappled with burns, sweating and hammering at his little roadside forge as a new world courses past him. The ...

BS101 – Sponsored by the Blacksmith Guild of Central Maryland, Beginner Blacksmithing, is a 2 day weekend course designed to teach the basics of blacksmithing with Instructor, Jim Crusse and Assistant ...

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