A hands-on look at backyard blacksmithing and traditional forging techniques, focused on shaping metal with heat, skill, and ...
Adam's Forge is a dark, high-ceilinged warehouse space in Los Angeles. It's set up with anvils, medieval-looking tools and black ovens that breathe fire. Recently, about a dozen people gathered for an ...
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 ...
Blacksmiths were the high technologists of fabrication up until the industrial revolution gained momentum. At its core, this is the art and science of making any needed tool or mechanism out of metal.
The village smithy celebrated in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1840 poem about blacksmiths glows again in Washington-area workshops lit by flaming forges. Blacksmithing is enjoying a revival as ...
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Forging a wrapped eye axe by hand

A traditional blacksmithing project shows how heated steel is shaped, wrapped, and forged into a durable axe head using ...
Blacksmiths in the South have long embedded West African symbolism into gates, rails, and window bars, proof that the craft ...
Young blacksmith Conor Murray from Kelferagh outside Kilkee on the Loop Head peninsula is opening his forge for Culture Night to show how he is using the traditional skills of the trade which stretch ...