Blacksmithing begins with mastering your tools. In this guide, we forge a hammer completely by hand using traditional techniques. Watch how raw steel is shaped under the hammer into one of the most ...

Photo by Peter Cihelka /The Free Lance-Star via AP Justin Jennings fashions a chef's knife at Black Horse Forge in Stafford County, Va. FREDERICKSBURG, Va. — Steve Hotz found his groove in ...

John Frank recalls how his grandfather and father used to do their own blacksmithing out of necessity. “Most farms up through the 1940s, ‘50s and ‘60s had their own shop in a corner of a shed or barn, ...

The set-up looks old-school – a furnace, anvil and two blacksmiths hammering in tandem to coax a hot steel rod into a pair of tongs. But for Adam’s Forge in Los Angeles’ Glassell Park neighborhood, ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) – Tucked in a small shop at Lowe Mill Arts and Entertainment, you’ll find Warrior Forge. For owner and blacksmith Marc Steenbergh, the forge is a labor of love, offering ...

CARBONDALE – An older man dressed in denim – a navy blue handkerchief stuffed in his back pocket – tends to a blacksmith’s fire.He sprinkles Borax over the glowing orange-hot coals, moving them around ...

Blacksmith Neil Kamimura rates nine forging scenes from movies and television for realism. He discusses the accuracy of "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" (2003), "Game of Thrones" (2014) ...

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - Lockdowns, working from home and business restrictions have given many people a chance to pick up a new hobby, including a Lubbock blacksmith looking to share his craft. Daniel ...

The set-up looks old-school – a furnace, anvil and two blacksmiths hammering in tandem to coax a hot steel rod into a pair of tongs. But for Adam’s Forge in Los Angeles’ Glassell Park neighborhood, ...