The Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen hosted an outdoor workshop Saturday for those looking to begin the art of blacksmithing. Students learned the basics of forging steel to form hooks and a fireplace ...

Thousands of years ago, a highly skilled blacksmith hammered away in a workshop, forging iron into swords, wheels or other complex objects. The “master blacksmith” is long gone but, as archaeologists ...

When Leslie Tharp began her career as a metal artist in 2009, the metalworking community in north central Florida was quite small. “You really had to leave the state to go anywhere,” Tharp said in her ...

Bart Johnson has only been blacksmithing for three years, but he’s used to working with tools — and he has scars to prove it. “I’ve worked with my hands all my life,” he told the shop full of ...

You wouldn't ordinarily associate axe-making with mental health therapy, but a Cariboo-area ranch is using the novel approach to help Canadian army veterans and first responders cope with ...

The truth is I've always been a bit rubbish at making things with my hands. I was tarred with the useless brush as early as primary school, in an art class where we were supposed to make a ...

PALMYRA, Pa. (WHTM) — A blacksmith workshop called the Drunken Smithy offers a fun, entertaining, and educational way of making your medieval-blacksmithing dreams a reality. The Drunken Smithy is ...

Join park smiths at the James Black Forge, home of the Bowie knife, for a hands-on class covering the basic operations of blacksmithing during the Introduction to Forging Workshop May 22-23 at ...

Archaeologists in Oxfordshire found the ruins of a 2,500-year-old site for “high-end” iron working and many related artifacts, photos show. Photo from DigVentures Thousands of years ago, a highly ...