HANOVER – Ray Larsen was in his mid-30s, an award-winning journalist who had shared a Pulitzer Prize, when he spotted the object that changed his life. A forge in a friend’s yard sparked a midlife ...

Flurries of sparks and intense heat don’t seem to faze the blacksmith apprentices of Lizama’s Forge. Each one looks calm as they focus on their tasks. Sean Lizama, the son of master blacksmith Frank ...

MISSOULA (AP) — 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 ...

Blacksmithing doesn’t have to be expensive! Learn how to forge effectively using low-cost tools, budget materials, and simple ...

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 ...

By Adebesin Bukola IyaboBlacksmithing is one of humanity’s oldest crafts, and it has shaped agricultural development for centuries. Long before modern machinery arrived, the blacksmith’s forge ...

Jeffrey Funk forges a piece of steel atop an anvil inside his workshop at the New Agrarian School in Bigfork on Tuesday, Nov. 12. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake) Jeffrey Funk forges a piece of steel ...

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 ...

Mention blacksmithing, and what comes to mind is hammering metal into swords, armor and horseshoes on large anvils. However, sometimes blacksmithing is more than that. A Michigan Technological ...

Dec 21, 2012 Dec 21, 2012 Updated Jun 12, 2015 COLUMBIA — He shares a garage with a landscaper and is only two months into his new business, but Columbia resident Justin Tattitch is excited to be on ...

If there was a job made for winter, it would have to be working inside a forge as a blacksmith. On a historic property in northern Tasmania, Alex Norton is oblivious to the icy wind whipping around ...