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 ...

From left to right, Mike Fisher, instructor Herman Oxborrow and retired teacher Richard Tinder watch Jessica Carr as she tries her hand at blacksmithing at the monthly "hammer-in" sponsored by the ...

We build and work with our own blacksmith forge from the ground up. Fire heat and timing control every result. Each piece of ...

The set-up looks old-school – a furnace, anvil and two blacksmiths hammering in tandem to coax a hot steel rod into a pair of tongs. But for Adam’s Forge in Los Angeles’ Glassell Park neighborhood, ...

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 ...

With a resounding CLANG, Dave Kauffman brings the hammer down on the magma-red steel, showering the area around his anvil with glowing, 2,000-degree sparks. Kauffman is a blacksmith, and showing ...

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 ...

FITCHBURG — While blacksmiths cranked their forge blowers and hammered their metal projects, the light whiff of smoke completed the experience at Saturday’s Blacksmith Art & Music Festival. Now in its ...

OLDENBURG - No map was needed to find this Fayette County ghost town, nestled on an obscure back road between the easily missed hamlets of Warrenton and Rutersville. All anyone had to do was follow ...

TACOMA — It’s a sound that’s echoed through the centuries since antiquity. It’s the sound Vulcan made at his forge under Mount Etna. It’s the sound memorialized in Longfellow’s “The Village Blacksmith ...

On a whim, I popped into the Central Virginia Blacksmith Guild 25th Anniversary Hammer-In. The three-day event took place at the Chesterfield County Fairgrounds March 10 - 12. I enjoyed the heck out ...

Demonstrator Tim Lemmon pounds a red-hot piece of metal into a horseshoe during the Hammer-In in Carlinville on Saturday, Nov. 1, 2025. Tim Lemmon begins fabricating a horseshoe during the Hammer-In ...