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 ...

The Deanery Project in Lower Ship Harbour, N.S., will be host to a lot of heat and hammering on Saturday. Blacksmiths from across the Maritimes will hold a traditional hammer-in event where techniques ...

While modern technology offers improvements — such as gas-powered forges, pneumatic hammers, and advances in metallurgy — Luark prefers to use the old-fashioned techniques and tools of traditional ...

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 ...

FREETOWN — Dink, dink, dink. Dink, dink, dink. Dink, dink, dink. Anyone who’s ever watched a blacksmith lay a piece of hot iron on a big anvil and slowly hammer the glowing metal into something useful ...

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 ...

Blacksmithing is one of humanity’s oldest crafts, and it has shaped agricultural development for centuries. Long before modern machinery arrived, the blacksmith’s forge supplied the tools that made ...