Matt Croft has been honing his blacksmithing skills at Macabee Metals for almost a decade. Matt Croft is one of Adlai Stein’s mentees who has been honing his blacksmithing skills at Macabee Metals for ...

When Leslie Tharp began her career as a metal artist in 2009, the metalworking community in north central Florida was quite small. “You really had to leave the state to go anywhere,” Tharp said in her ...

PROVIDENCE — When Alaina Mahoney was a painting student at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in the late aughts, she joined a group called Iron Core. “Students figured out how to melt their own ...

The constant clinking and clanking of the molten metal is annoying to most, but for some, it’s a joyful noise. One of those drawn to the noise is Dale Morse, a blacksmithing instructor and co-founder ...

Retired blacksmith John Dittmeier will give a lecture on blacksmithing at the Athens-Clarke County Library. He learned blacksmithing from Bill Gichner, a renowned blacksmith and tool collector. The ...

Reb Staup is a local blacksmith, woodworker and T-shirt designer living in Westminster. When Staup was young he liked to draw. “I was always interested in some type of art,” Staup said. He started ...

The technology is simple you heat it up, you hit it with a hammer, and then the rest is details, said Steven Bronstein, holding a glowing red rod of steel that he had just extracted with tongs from ...

COLUMBIA — On a Saturday in April, David Bush was working over a portable coal-fired forge outside the Olympia Mill Village Museum. The coals burned hot. Orange, yellow and blue flames licked towards ...