The sweltering heat had finally moved on and Giant Tick season was coming to a close (not kidding, they are HUGE here), when I decided to fire up my hacked together blacksmith forge made out of an old ...
There he was, fresh out of graduate school, with no income for materials, set up in a garage on the former family estate at the Redding border, surrounded by heirloom tools that his grandfather ...
Victor Andersen hasn’t spent much time away from his anvil, forge and belt drive for 60 years. The century-old appliances are more than the tools of his trade. They are what give one of few remaining ...
Wood-fired forges burn cleaner than forges that require coal. I want to start blacksmithing. What’s the difference between wood-burning forges and coal-burning forges? And can you really get a ...
There’s no real need for the skills of a blacksmith these days, but that doesn’t stop devotees of the art — and science — from gathering around the forge at the Freetown Historical Society on ...
Simon Hall, tenant blacksmith at the National Trust’s Branscombe Forge in Devon, has been crowned as both national British static and live forging champion for the second year running. His leafy ...
HART -- John and Callee Griswold couldn't go back in history. So, they are recreating it -- one sword, one shield and one crossbow at a time. It is laborious work, but the Griswolds, owners of Iron ...
GRAFTON -- Aaron Anderson decided to strike while the iron was hot. A seasoned blacksmith in Andover, he saw an advertisement the Windham Foundation placed in a newspaper to find a replacement for the ...
ALBANY COUNTY, N.Y. (NEWS10) – The art of blacksmithing dates back hundreds of years and involves hours of hard work in some very hot conditions. To learn more about the trade, just head over to the ...