Retired blacksmith John Dittmeier will give a lecture on blacksmithing at the Athens-Clarke County Library. He learned blacksmithing from Bill Gichner, a renowned blacksmith and tool collector. The ...

CARBONDALE ” Who could have guessed that an inquisitive, young blacksmith working on a ranch 20 years ago for $6 an hour could have turned a molehill into a mountain? That is, a mountain of metal. A ...

Blacksmithing was an essential trade during the canal era for producing and repairing iron goods. Class participants get hands-on education by making an S-hook and a fireplace poker. COSHOCTON − Briar ...

The group meets the first Thursday of every month at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum’s East Chattanooga station, 2202 N. Chamberlain Ave. A demonstration at 6 p.m. is followed by a brief business ...

“Traveling Like the Light” is a large, almost paper-thin wall relief gorgeously composed of overlapping rows of crumpled and then flattened metal sheets. It looks like something tossed into a giant ...

Discover the detailed restoration journey of a blacksmith's leg vise in this step-by-step guide. Watch as we transform a rusty, non-functional vise into a fully restored workshop tool using welding, ...

Perkins often works in a western style, but his work ranges far wider. He put these motorcycles together out of spare bits, bolts and pieces. (Photo: Aimee Blume / Special to The Courier & Press) ...

When Leslie Tharp began her career as a metal artist in 2009, the metalworking community in north central Florida was quite small. “You really had to leave the state to go anywhere,” Tharp said in her ...

Metal glows hot, as a hammer pounds away in a Lockwood garage, this is where Missouri's youngest blacksmith is being forged. Dakota Bayless is 13 years old, and every day after school, this is where ...

Sparks fly from his grinder as Blacksmith Clint Wright of the Garden Gate Blacksmith Shop in Noank works on repairing a section of metal fence in his shop in Noank, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017. Wright has ...

Now in his retirement years, John Dittmeier has found a place to house his collections and his tools gathered from a career spent forging metal through the danger of extreme heat and the wear of human ...