Pat Downing has perhaps the rarest job in all of San Diego: a blacksmith. The Clairemont resident and San Diego native works part time as a traditional blacksmith in Old Town. The other hours 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 ...

When you think of a blacksmith, you probably think back to colonial times, a rugged, Founding Father-type with rolled-up sleeves, hammering away on an anvil. But the art form is alive and well today, ...

Professional blacksmith Fire debuts with a comprehensive guide to shaping metal into a wide range of objects, from spoons and bottle openers to door knockers and wall hooks. Noting that blacksmithing ...

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 ...

There he was, fresh out of graduate school, with no income for materials, set up in a garage on the former family estate at the Redding border, surrounded by heirloom tools that his grandfather ...

Blacksmithing brings to mind a lot of images, most of them out history or myth. Most of us, if we think of a modern day blacksmith, we might imagine someone who shoes horses. But while farriers are ...

The men are members of the Midland Max Carey Blacksmiths Guild, and have met weekly for nearly 30 years inside the Midland County Historical Society's Carriage House. A group of local men meets each ...

No plastic. No shortcuts. Just fire, steel, and precision. Watch a solid bar transformed into a hollow punch built to outlast anything from the hardware store. This is craftsmanship most factories can ...

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