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 ...

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 ...

Not all hammers are created equal. In this video, we show how a ball peen hammer is forged from scratch using traditional ...

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 ...

James Anderson’s Blacksmith Shop in Colonial Williamsburg is a world of activity. With forges fired up, hammers hit away at metal, hand-held files grind down fine detail work and sunlight seeps ...

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 ...

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 ...

EASTON — They came with their rugged overalls, soot-covered forges, travel trailers and lots of ideas. Under the shady trees at the Tuckahoe Steam & Gas Show Grounds more than three dozen blacksmiths ...

SOUTH HAVEN, MI – Blacksmiths from Michigan and the Midwest will bring their talents to South Haven next month for the first "Hammer-In" at the Michigan Flywheelers Museum. Ted Guimond, the museum’s ...