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 ...

Blacksmiths were the high technologists of fabrication up until the industrial revolution gained momentum. At its core, this is the art and science of making any needed tool or mechanism out of metal.

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, ...

HARTSVILLE — Three things — a fire, a fashion and a fondness — account for the final change of Raymond A. Whitney's career from horseshoes to automobiles and back to horseshoes. Brought up by his ...

A non-profit in Lake Luzerne that is one of the few places to learn the centuries-old blacksmithing trade celebrated a long-awaited expansion Wednesday. The Adirondack Folk School has been preserving ...

The rhythmic plink-plink-plink of hammers striking red-hot iron punctuated the sound of 1960s garage rock coming from a distant stereo. A few hours later, five men walked out of Cooper’s Forge on the ...

Rob Schubert The Daily News Jan 22, 2020 Jan 22, 2020 0 – Editor's note: This story has been corrected to reflect that Harvey Williamson is the historian of the Stella Historical Society, not the ...

Alder Hardt pulled a glowing yellow rod from his forge, laid it on an anvil and hammered a U-shaped bend into one end. When the steel rod was cool, Hardt reheated it, then clamped it in a vise.

In the forge, even the smallest tools require precision and patience. Watch how a paper knife is forged from steel using traditional blacksmithing techniques.