In this video, I demonstrate how I set up a small blacksmith shop to make my own knives and tools at a lower cost. I ...

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 ...

Blacksmith Seth Pauley remembers the first time he felt the magic of his craft. He was making a gardening trowel, and he struck the steel with his hammer just right. “It felt like hitting a piece of ...

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 ...

On one of the coldest mornings in memory, I found myself in a big red barn in Port Allen taking a blacksmithing class. "Strike while the iron is hot," has gained new meaning since the two-day workshop ...

The Juanita and Ralph Harvey School of Visual Arts will offer four art classes for the community this fall. Ceramics - hand building and wheel throwing MSU Resident Ceramic Artists Pamela Moller and ...

Every week we publish a historic photo highlighting a story from Naperville’s past from the history archives of Naper Settlement. Blacksmiths were critical to town life in the 19th century, so much so ...