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 ...

ESCONDIDO – In a green, aluminum-sided building at the EscondidoHistory Center in Grape Day Park, the sounds of the past ring outwith each clang of blacksmith Stefan Kertz’s hammer. As he worked in ...

Carlinville was the place for pinging on Saturday as more than a dozen traditional artisans descended on the community for the annual Illinois Valley Blacksmiths Hammer-In at the Macoupin County ...

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 ...

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 ...

Made of iron by men of iron -- The Shelburne Museum's Blacksmith and Wheelwright Shop -- Iron and steel -- from 1500 B.C. to modern times -- The iron and steel industry in America -- The passing of ...

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 ...

HANCOCK -- After serving as a welder in the U.S. Marine Corps, Walt Scadden moved into an old house in Manchester, Conn., which had a lot of iron work in need of repair. With the skills he had learned ...

Kent Knapp started blacksmithing at the age of 19. He apprenticed under a master blacksmith for a few years, but then moved to New Orleans with his wife and children, where he was unable to find a ...

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