Adam's Forge is a dark, high-ceilinged warehouse space in Los Angeles. It's set up with anvils, medieval-looking tools and black ovens that breathe fire. Recently, about a dozen people gathered for an ...

The sweltering heat had finally moved on and Giant Tick season was coming to a close (not kidding, they are HUGE here), when I decided to fire up my hacked together blacksmith forge made out of an old ...

Forging a Norwegian hewing axe. This is my first attempt at making one of these large hewing axes, using a book from Norway ...

In Izmir’s historic Kemeralti bazaar, the Akdemir family is finding new customers for a four-generation craft.

Blacksmiths in the South have long embedded West African symbolism into gates, rails, and window bars, proof that the craft ...

The village smithy celebrated in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1840 poem about blacksmiths glows again in Washington-area workshops lit by flaming forges. Blacksmithing is enjoying a revival as ...

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.