Like the Temple of Hephaestus perched on the outskirts of Athens, the slightly less-ancient Blacksmith of Trenton ... that goes on the power hammer is going to end up on the anvil.” ...

“You will get to the point where you look forward to that morning smoke,” Dack said. To be a blacksmith, you need to be able to make precise strikes with your hammer. “You don’t have to be ...

Blacksmiths work by heating pieces of wrought iron or steel until the metal becomes soft enough for shaping with hand tools, such as a hammer ... metal down to make a point, and then bending ...

“I hit things with a hammer — for a reason ... separate him from many other blacksmiths. Makarova, whose company designs and creates exclusive hi-end cabinetry, says Hopper’s work ...

When the only tool you have is a hammer, everything in the world looks like a nail. Unless you’re a blacksmith ... For hours on end, they billowed forges, plunged rods of metal into piles ...

“I still remember, when it was raining lightly, the streets were empty and that was all you could hear was the sounds of the hammers ... Blacksmith Street got its name at the end of the ...

A shower of orange sparks crackled from the end of an iron rod as Steve Gensheimer ... armed with just his hammer and the flames. “I really fell in love when I learned this craft,” he said.

Visit Banton-Smith Center for Blacksmith & Metal Arts on Facebook or cvbg.org for a class schedule. "If you have an opportunity to attend any hammer-ins, make it a point to do so," Stubblefield ...