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 ...

While modern technology offers improvements — such as gas-powered forges, pneumatic hammers, and advances in metallurgy — Luark prefers to use the old-fashioned techniques and tools of traditional ...

ROLLAG, Minn. – Kerwin Lund has been blacksmithing for 30 years, and he's been a Civil War 7th Cavalry re-enactor for 15 years. But it wasn't until four years ago that the Hazen, N.D., man decided ...

"Without a blacksmith, there would be nothing," says Pete Prydybasz of Knaurers, one of several members of the Pennsylvania Artist Blacksmith's Association at the 92nd Pennsylvania Farm Show. He ...

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 ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (FOX 56) — Craig Kaviar has been a blacksmith all of his adult life. His metal works are pieces of art, often displayed in galleries. His forge in Louisville is his happy place. “Yes, ...

Victor Andersen hasn’t spent much time away from his anvil, forge and belt drive for 60 years. The century-old appliances are more than the tools of his trade. They are what give one of few remaining ...

WALTHAM — Blacksmith John Hayden fires up the forge, stokes the coals, and heats the rifle barrel of a disabled Remington ...

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 ...

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 ...

BELLINGHAM -- CLANG, clink, clink, CLANG, clink clink. The rhythmic sound of metal on metal reverberates off the trees outlining the back yard of a house set back from Bellingham's Lake Street. A haze ...