When you grow up with something as the constant backdrop to your life, it’s easy to forget as an adult that not everyone else shares your instinctive knowledge of the subject. My dad is a blacksmith, ...

For the past few months we’ve been running this series of Blacksmithing For The Uninitiated posts, exploring the art of forge work for a novice. It’s based upon my experience growing up around a ...

The rhythmic clang of a hammer striking metal echoed through a tool-packed workshop on a recent morning at the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum in Vergennes. With each hammer blow to the anvil, a ...

The country's youngest journeyman blacksmith fires up his forge. His abba (Hebrew for father) hovers nearby, keeping tabs on the oldest of his five children. He says Asher Camire has a healthy sense ...

Like the Temple of Hephaestus perched on the outskirts of Athens, the slightly less-ancient Blacksmith of Trenton shop sits in a remote corner of the city, well away from the State House and the rest ...

PORT TOWNSEND — After working as a blacksmith most of his life, Jim Garrett found it natural to forge ahead as an anvil manufacturer in 2007. After all, he pounds out and shapes metal for a living ...

With a resounding CLANG, Dave Kauffman brings the hammer down on the magma-red steel, showering the area around his anvil with glowing, 2,000-degree sparks. Kauffman is a blacksmith, and showing ...