the blacksmiths of Trenton continue to forge ahead in the digital age using little more than fire and water, hammers and anvils, along with age-old ingenuity. When people are surprised that a ...

Philip Simmons Artist Blacksmith Guild in South Carolina is dedicated to expanding and educating people on the ancient art of ...

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, an anvil and a chisel. Smithing is one of the oldest ...

The amateur blacksmiths were hard ... She bent back over her anvil, coaxing metal into a blade. Her hands blistered as she swung the hammer over and over, sharpening and sculpting the rod into ...

For more on the farrier versus blacksmith anvil discussion ... Hot metal is laid across the hardy and struck with a hammer. As the hot metal is driven over the hardy, it is either shaped or ...

made two blades to raffle off. Bladesmithing is a category of blacksmithing. It is the art of making blades, swords and knives using a forge, hammer, anvil and smithing tools. Stubblefield described ...

But this artist of the hammer, plans to continue blacksmithing ... his first anvil as a gift from Gichner. The anvil, used the world over by blacksmiths, generally weigh from 150 to 200 pounds ...

Jeffrey Funk forges a piece of steel atop an anvil inside his workshop at the New Agrarian School in Bigfork on Tuesday, Nov. 12. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake) Jeffrey Funk forges a piece of ...

June 6 -- ul-Azha approaching, the rhythm of hammers on steel should be echoing through Dhaka's blacksmith lanes like a festive drumbeat, but this year, that symphony is curiously subdued.

ALBION — The sound of hammer hitting metal rings out as heated metal glows orange and takes shape. Nick Mace and Conner Miller are demonstrating blacksmithing this week throughout the Orleans ...

The Max Carey Blacksmith Guild has a legacy of blacksmiths dating back to prominent blacksmith Orville (Pug) Carey, who had his blacksmith shop near the rail roadtracks at the foot of McDonald ...