Now in his retirement years, John Dittmeier has found a place to house his collections and his tools gathered from a career spent forging metal through the danger of extreme heat and the wear of human ...

If you ever wanted to learn about blacksmithing, Samuel Dembitsky is your man. “If you want to know something, start asking questions,” the tall elderly man with a burly mustache quipped. “And if I ...

Instructor Bob Hungerman, left, looks on a Chris Wharton of Baltimore works on shaping a piece of metal with a cross peen hammer during a Blacksmith 101 course, offered by The Blacksmith Guild of ...

Tucson’s only blacksmithing school is celebrating its grand opening on Saturday, Feb. 2, and the public is invited to see the sparks fly. Desert Metal Craft, a new school started by three Tucsonans, ...

The set-up looks old-school – a furnace, anvil and two blacksmiths hammering in tandem to coax a hot steel rod into a pair of tongs. But for Adam’s Forge in Los Angeles’ Glassell Park neighborhood, ...

Automated 9,000-pound air hammers standing 12 feet tall, anvils bolted onto sawed-off tree stumps and heavy racks sagging under loads of iron create the impression that David Lisch could turn out ...

CHARLOTTE - Tucked away in a small wooden shed down a winding rural road in Charlotte, Michael Harrigan's Urthona Forge is fairly unassuming from the outside, save for a lone sign that reads ...

David Flynn lives a life of fire and metal. Flynn, 53, is a sculptor and a blacksmith. He spends his days at his northwest-side workshop shaping pieces of scrap and steel with heavy hammers, monster ...

A journeyman blacksmith, Talon Cavender-Wilson melds traditional Scandinavian metal working skills with design and art from his Dakota roots and beyond. Talon Cavender-Wilson decided he wanted to ...