The Goat N Hammer is an Atlanta-based forge, complete with a few blacksmiths, a roaring fire and anvil. It's been quietly building a following for its bladesmithing and knife grinding instruction ...

Any way you look at it, blacksmithing is a punishing trade. Heavy tools, a red-hot forge, flying sparks, and searing metal all exact a toll on the smith’s body unless precautions are taken. After ...

Regular readers will recognise this as the third part of a series exploring blacksmithing for those who have perhaps always fancied having a go but have never quite known where to start. It’s written ...

For those of a certain age, the half-white, half-Comanche blacksmith of TV’s “Gunsmoke” fame, Quint Asper, played by Burt Reynolds, may be the classic image of a stoic, muscular metalsmith who creates ...

HANCOCK -- After serving as a welder in the U.S. Marine Corps, Walt Scadden moved into an old house in Manchester, Conn., which had a lot of iron work in need of repair. With the skills he had learned ...

A solid block of steel is heated, shaped and hardened into a classic ball peen hammer using traditional blacksmithing ...