One of the biggest challenges facing the aspiring blacksmith is procuring the tools of the trade. And that means tackling the unenviable task of finding a decent anvil. Sure, one can buy an ASO — ...

Heating, hammering, bending and shaping allows Steve LaPaugh to explore endless possibilities in blacksmithing. The old art of hammer and anvil has taken on new life behind his Denbigh home. “My ...

A Hamilton blacksmith who creates historically accurate tools for museums and reenactors, and demonstrates his craft to school kids, says his tools have been stolen, leaving him unable to practise his ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — Frank McKinney, a blacksmith and American history buff in Alberton, spends much of his time in his garage. There, he has a collection of forges — the furnaces where blacksmiths heat ...

Hobby crafts are growing in popularity. Sometimes they include anvils and fire. By Amelia Nierenberg Reporting from Brookfield and Wolcott, Conn. The amateur blacksmiths were hard at work: heating ...

He labors alone on a cold morning, his leather apron stained with soot, his workspace illuminated by a bed of glowing coals, hammering and refusing to bend with the times as cars whiz past his small ...

The rhythmic plink-plink-plink of hammers striking red-hot iron punctuated the sound of 1960s garage rock coming from a distant stereo. A few hours later, five men walked out of Cooper’s Forge on the ...

ROSEBURG, Ore. (AP) — Scott Wadsworth has been fascinated by blacksmiths since he was 12 years old, when he kept running across descriptions of them in the Western books he enjoyed. He was camping the ...

POP Projects is a collection of new and classic projects from more than a century of Popular Mechanics. Master skills, get tool recommendations, and, most importantly, build something of your very own ...

Retired blacksmith John Dittmeier will give a lecture on blacksmithing at the Athens-Clarke County Library. He learned blacksmithing from Bill Gichner, a renowned blacksmith and tool collector. The ...

Watch the amazinf process of transforming a rusty, discarded bearing into functional cobbler tools using traditional blacksmithing techniques. The journey begins with a piece of old, rusted metal, a ...