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 ...

From a raw billet of steel to a precision-crafted tool, watch the blacksmith heat, hammer, and shape every inch of this ...

In this video, I demonstrate the process of forging an axe as a beginner smith using only hand tools, with no power tools ...

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 ...

A hammer rattles against a piece of hot iron as blacksmith Randy Dack turns the iron into a tool for a customer to use. Dack considers himself a utilitarian blacksmith. “I like my iron to be used, not ...

A somber voice as if from the past guided blacksmithing student Paul Zimmerman Saturday in Willow Street. "Heat that back up and whale on it!" the voice cried. Zimmerman returned his quarter-inch ...

ROCKWELL — Hanging in front of James “Jeep” Sabo’s house is a handmade sign that reads, “Jeep’s Forge School of Blacksmithing.” Behind his inconspicuous house is a small village of sheds and shops ...

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 ...