Photo by Peter Cihelka /The Free Lance-Star via AP Justin Jennings fashions a chef's knife at Black Horse Forge in Stafford County, Va. FREDERICKSBURG, Va. — Steve Hotz found his groove in ...

TUCSON, Ariz. - Shortly after the Industrial Revolution, the need for a blacksmith went away, and the craft is now pretty much just a thing of the past. A school in Tucson, however, is trying to ...

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 ...

The Analogs is stories about people who make things by hand — and what those things tell us about those people.

The Lake Champlain Maritime Museum in Vergennes offers hands-on metal arts workshops for teens this April.

SALEM, Ore. — Since its founding in 2022, Industrial Artistic and Creative Therapy (IACT) has become a sanctuary for veterans and first responders struggling with stress and PTSD. Founded by "Forged ...

In this video, learn how to make an adjustable fullering tool for accurate hidden tang transitions, inspired by a design from ...

A nonprofit in Fredericksburg, Virginia, has found a unique way to support veterans through blacksmithing — an age-old craft using iron and steel. Steve Hotz founded Black Horse Forge after using ...

Walt Hull, who lives in Pleasant Grove south of Lawrence, has been a blacksmith for more than 15 years and creates fences, gates, tables and more from iron. Hammers clang and sparks fly. Heat and ...

Wrath of the Lich King has been a bit of a rollercoaster ride for blacksmiths. It's passed through a few tunnels of high importance, then settled onto a kind of vestigial relevance before finally ...