COTTRELLVILLE TWP. - Matt Moline has the radio on at his shop on Marine City Highway, but he's banging out his own beat, a chorus scored for hammer and anvil. Moline is a blacksmith, and this is the ...

Regular readers will recognise this as the third part of a series exploring blacksmithing for those who have perhaps always fancied having a go but have never quite known where to start. It’s written ...

Carlinville was the place for pinging on Saturday as more than a dozen traditional artisans descended on the community for the annual Illinois Valley Blacksmiths Hammer-In at the Macoupin County ...

Any way you look at it, blacksmithing is a punishing trade. Heavy tools, a red-hot forge, flying sparks, and searing metal all exact a toll on the smith’s body unless precautions are taken. After ...

HANCOCK -- After serving as a welder in the U.S. Marine Corps, Walt Scadden moved into an old house in Manchester, Conn., which had a lot of iron work in need of repair. With the skills he had learned ...

ESCONDIDO – In a green, aluminum-sided building at the EscondidoHistory Center in Grape Day Park, the sounds of the past ring outwith each clang of blacksmith Stefan Kertz’s hammer. As he worked in ...

HANOI, Vietnam — He is the last blacksmith on Blacksmith Street, dark with soot, his arms dappled with burns, sweating and hammering at his little roadside forge as a new world courses past him. The ...

James Anderson’s Blacksmith Shop in Colonial Williamsburg is a world of activity. With forges fired up, hammers hit away at metal, hand-held files grind down fine detail work and sunlight seeps ...