At SUNY Canton, there’s a new forging club where students learn the art of blacksmithing.  Richard HallerLearning the art of ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. An anvil is a big steel workbench, where blacksmiths do most of their forging work - that’s when you hit the hot steel with the hammer to ...
Anvils have been around since ancient times. Basically, anvils are used to forge and shape metal. The first anvils were made of stone, then bronze, then wrought iron, then steel-faced wrought iron, ...
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 ...
In a dark, cavernous room near the Port of Oakland's massive cranes and shipping terminals, John Colle Rogers was bent over, sorting through a big box of old guns and gun parts, illuminated by a ...
A Bellingham teen has turned a hobby into a small business."I'm a blacksmith. I've been doing it for about two years, and I kind of got into it when I was watching YouTube," Nick Riolo said.Although ...
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 ...
The news has been spread in many ways throughout the years, but perhaps Peter Thomson, the Lafayette pioneer blacksmith, had one of the more unusual ways of telling his community what was happening.
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 — ...