Blacksmithing begins with mastering your tools. In this guide, we forge a hammer completely by hand using traditional techniques. Watch how raw steel is shaped under the hammer into one of the most ...

Photo by Peter Cihelka /The Free Lance-Star via AP Justin Jennings fashions a chef's knife at Black Horse Forge in Stafford County, Va. FREDERICKSBURG, Va. — Steve Hotz found his groove in ...

Learn practical ways to start blacksmithing on a budget. See simple tools, low-cost materials, and techniques for forging without spending a fortune.

Flurries of sparks and intense heat don’t seem to faze the blacksmith apprentices of Lizama’s Forge. Each one looks calm as they focus on their tasks. Sean Lizama, the son of master blacksmith Frank ...

COLUMBIA — On a Saturday in April, David Bush was working over a portable coal-fired forge outside the Olympia Mill Village Museum. The coals burned hot. Orange, yellow and blue flames licked towards ...

Patrick Quinn found inspiration years ago when he saw some pictures of the historic power hammers inside the former Cambria Iron and Bethlehem Steel blacksmith shop. For generations, ...

CARBONDALE – An older man dressed in denim – a navy blue handkerchief stuffed in his back pocket – tends to a blacksmith’s fire.He sprinkles Borax over the glowing orange-hot coals, moving them around ...

If there was a job made for winter, it would have to be working inside a forge as a blacksmith. On a historic property in northern Tasmania, Alex Norton is oblivious to the icy wind whipping around ...