A short look inside my blacksmith forge - showing its main features, layout, and tools I use every day for forging, heating, and shaping metal. Simple, efficient, and built for daily use.

MISSOULA (AP) — Frank McKinney, a blacksmith and American history buff in Alberton, spends much of his time in his garage. There, he has a collection of forges — the furnaces where blacksmiths heat ...

Photo by Peter Cihelka /The Free Lance-Star via AP Justin Jennings fashions a chef's knife at Black Horse Forge in Stafford County, Va. FREDERICKSBURG, Va. — Steve Hotz found his groove in ...

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 ...

He started blacksmithing a couple of years ago to make decorative steel frames for the intricate, multi-layered silhouette ‘‘pictures'' he makes by cutting out his hand-drawn designs from plate steel ...

CARBONDALE – An older man dressed in denim – a navy blue handkerchief stuffed in his back pocket – tends to a blacksmith’s fire.He sprinkles Borax over the glowing orange-hot coals, moving them around ...

Chances are you crossed paths with CJ Forge without even knowing it. You might have been browsing their wares at a festival or maybe you caught them doing live demonstrations at Scrap Revolve outside ...

Mention blacksmithing, and what comes to mind is hammering metal into swords, armor and horseshoes on large anvils. However, sometimes blacksmithing is more than that. A Michigan Technological ...

Jeffrey Funk forges a piece of steel atop an anvil inside his workshop at the New Agrarian School in Bigfork on Tuesday, Nov. 12. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake) Jeffrey Funk forges a piece of steel ...