MISSOULA, Mont. — 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 ...

WALTHAM - A Massachusetts blacksmith is doing something unique with old weapons, melting down guns taken off the streets and turning them into garden tools. "Move metal is what blacksmiths say," said ...

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 ...

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 ...

Blacksmithing is one of humanity’s oldest crafts, and it has shaped agricultural development for centuries. Long before modern machinery arrived, the blacksmith’s forge supplied the tools that made ...

ROSEBURG, Ore. – Scott Wadsworth has been fascinated by blacksmiths since he was 12 years old, when he kept running across descriptions of them in the Western books he enjoyed. He was camping the ...

Retired blacksmith John Dittmeier will give a lecture on blacksmithing at the Athens-Clarke County Library. He learned blacksmithing from Bill Gichner, a renowned blacksmith and tool collector. The ...

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 ...