James Anderson’s Blacksmith Shop in Colonial Williamsburg is a world of ... fills the shop as the thickening smoke flows up the forge’s blackened chimney. “It’s incredibly enjoyable ...

I bet they made a 100 a week, easy,” he said.Pinging resonated in the Mountain Forge blacksmith barn as Ross shaped hot metal ... “The stuff we’ve made [at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation] is ...

He uses a "forge," which is a propane-powered version of the fire and bellows that a colonial blacksmith would use. The flame can reach up to 2,000 degrees, hot enough to melt steel and many other ...

The Colonial blacksmith was an essential craftsman in ... he set up his first forge under the branches of an enormous oak tree, placing his anvil on a convenient tree stump. In addition to the ...

It took 15,000 of those hand-hewn nails to build the newest addition to Colonial Williamsburg ... what was then the only operating blacksmith shop, the Deane Forge. Roy Underhill, the 200-year ...

It's not uncommon for Mark Gardner, a blacksmith for some 40 years, to host students or fellow blacksmiths. Flood Plain Forge is an ideal ... is a little different than colonial days.

She reenacts colonial American blacksmithing techniques as they would have been practiced in the mid to late 18th and early 19th centuries. The forge is fired with bituminous coal. Visitors to the ...