In an era of invisible, cloud-based commerce, Brian’s Welding is an old-school business, full of metal and machinery. This month, the welders went even more retro, gathering around an anvil and ...

The constant clinking and clanking of the molten metal is annoying to most, but for some, it’s a joyful noise. One of those drawn to the noise is Dale Morse, a blacksmithing instructor and co-founder ...

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 ...

HINCKLEY, Maine (WABI) - It’s is a sound you may not expect in a typical high school classroom. But at the Maine Academy of Natural Sciences, it’s just everyday background noise. “I love the ...

Years ago, Shaun Williams began hammering his own armor out of cold sheet metal to wear to a Renaissance festival at Snyder Park in Fort Lauderdale. He later graduated to a blowtorch and eventually ...

Explore my one-car garage blacksmith shop, built after four years of blacksmithing classes where I learned to create ...

MORRISTOWN Ten people from teens to retirees spent an already hot Saturday around an 1860s forge at Historic Speedwell Saturday learning the basics of blacksmithing in an all-day master class called ...

An elective at Ontario College of Art and Design changed Jen Lipski’s life, turning her into an “accidental blacksmith.” “I went to OCAD in Toronto to become a wildlife painter, and in my last ...