A somber voice as if from the past guided blacksmithing student Paul Zimmerman Saturday in Willow Street. "Heat that back up and whale on it!" the voice cried. Zimmerman returned his quarter-inch ...

When the only tool you have is a hammer, everything in the world looks like a nail. Unless you’re a blacksmith, that is. Under the hammers of the would-be smiths who stopped by David Kailey’s ...

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 ...

Like the Temple of Hephaestus perched on the outskirts of Athens, the slightly less-ancient Blacksmith of Trenton shop sits in a remote corner of the city, well away from the State House and the rest ...

HANOI, Vietnam — He is the last blacksmith on Blacksmith Street, dark with soot, his arms dappled with burns, sweating and hammering at his little roadside forge as a new world courses past him. The ...

With a resounding CLANG, Dave Kauffman brings the hammer down on the magma-red steel, showering the area around his anvil with glowing, 2,000-degree sparks. Kauffman is a blacksmith, and showing ...

One of the participants starts work on making a hook from steel. Image: (C) Tim Sandle One of the participants starts work on making a hook from steel. Image: (C) Tim Sandle How often do you take up ...

Blacksmithing is indeed an ancient art, with references to the trade in writings as far back as ancient Greece and Egypt, and on throughout history. But while not too many people would be acquainted ...

A unique tour to Ha Dong District, 15 km from Hanoi's center, allows you to become a blacksmith and forge your own knife. The sparks fly from the grinder. It is about 40 degrees Celsius outside the ...