When you think of a blacksmith, you probably think back to colonial times, a rugged, Founding Father-type with rolled-up sleeves, hammering away on an anvil. But the art form is alive and well today, ...

The news has been spread in many ways throughout the years, but perhaps Peter Thomson, the Lafayette pioneer blacksmith, had one of the more unusual ways of telling his community what was happening.

PORT TOWNSEND — After working as a blacksmith most of his life, Jim Garrett found it natural to forge ahead as an anvil manufacturer in 2007. After all, he pounds out and shapes metal for a living ...

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 ...

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 ...

A blacksmith in Rigaud, Que., is taking to social media in search of the prized anvil he lost last Friday. The anvil fell out of Michael Appugliese's trailer when he was in nearby Hudson, leading to a ...

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 ...

WEST HAVEN -- From the hand-crank air blower, to the fire box, to walls built with pegs, almost everything in the Ward-Heitmann House's blacksmith shop matches the "smithy" Charles Martin Hamm ran in ...

By Adebesin Bukola IyaboBlacksmithing is one of humanity’s oldest crafts, and it has shaped agricultural development for centuries. Long before modern machinery arrived, the blacksmith’s forge ...

A teenager has become one of the youngest blacksmiths in Britain after he taught himself through YouTube tutorials aged just 13. Jacob Shafe, now 15, runs his own blacksmith business on the side in ...