FITCHBURG — The high-pitched clang of hammers hitting red-hot steel will ring through the city’s Riverfront Park once again this Saturday, Sept. 28, for the 16th annual Blacksmith Art & Renaissance ...

Carbondale, COLORADO ” Who could have guessed that an inquisitive, young blacksmith working on a ranch 20 years ago for $6 an hour could have turned a molehill into a mountain? That is, a mountain of ...

FREETOWN — Dink, dink, dink. Dink, dink, dink. Dink, dink, dink. Anyone who’s ever watched a blacksmith lay a piece of hot iron on a big anvil and slowly hammer the glowing metal into something useful ...

PROVIDENCE — When Alaina Mahoney was a painting student at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in the late aughts, she joined a group called Iron Core. “Students figured out how to melt their 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 ...

Wiregrass Forge is showing off, and the local blacksmith club doesn’t want to lose its edge… or curves, or braids, or any angle possible with the endless items of art its members have created. The ...

Darla Selander is 57 years old, 5-foot-nothing and can do more pushups than you. She also likes red leather jackets, diamond earrings and—above all—her rough, calloused hands. All of these are ...

Asked what it feels like to forge iron, Robert Thomas has to pause for a moment and compose himself before plunging into a description of what, for him, is as much a passion as a livelihood. "Forging ...

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 ...

Reb Staup is a local blacksmith, woodworker and T-shirt designer living in Westminster. When Staup was young he liked to draw. “I was always interested in some type of art,” Staup said. He started ...