Heating, hammering, bending and shaping allows Steve LaPaugh to explore endless possibilities in blacksmithing. The old art of hammer and anvil has taken on new life behind his Denbigh home. “My ...

Orange blacksmith Jason Stimps, 37, works in a field known for its physicality as much as for its artistic outcomes. His tools include a thundering hydraulic press, a 750-pound anvil, and fire. But ...

A Hamilton blacksmith who creates historically accurate tools for museums and reenactors, and demonstrates his craft to school kids, says his tools have been stolen, leaving him unable to practise his ...

Ray Ginty of Madison didn't always know he wanted to be a blacksmith. In fact, as a child, he wasn't in-terested in history at all, and he hardly ever spent time wondering where nails and hinges came ...

Blacksmiths in Colorado use their anvils to turn guns into gardening tools, reshaping America’s gun culture one strike of the hammer at a time. This is the work of the “Swords to Plows” initiative of ...

The rhythmic plink-plink-plink of hammers striking red-hot iron punctuated the sound of 1960s garage rock coming from a distant stereo. A few hours later, five men walked out of Cooper’s Forge on the ...

He started blacksmithing a couple of years ago to make decorative steel frames for the intricate, multi-layered silhouette ‘‘pictures'' he makes by cutting out his hand-drawn designs from plate steel ...

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 ...

Three men inside Cooper's Blacksmith Shop at Fifth Street and Broadway in Vancouver interrupt their work to pose for a photo. From left to right: owner M.J. Cooper, J.E. Johnson and Heckman (first ...

Hidden behind a construction fence near Bowen Hall, nestled between a parking garage and storage unit, is a quiet alleyway, home to the members of the Princeton Blacksmith Club. With the help of this ...

Watch the amazinf process of transforming a rusty, discarded bearing into functional cobbler tools using traditional blacksmithing techniques. The journey begins with a piece of old, rusted metal, a ...