A 21-year-old who shunned university to forge a career as a traditional blacksmith while he was still a teenager is hoping to inspire more young people into the ancient trade. Jay Cardall took up the ...

Mark Johnstone Hopper has a simple job description. “I hit things with a hammer — for a reason.” Others fill out his resume. “I’m unbelievably impressed with his passion and craftsmanship. It’s the ...

And while he uses the traditional blacksmithing method of fastening steel pieces together with hand-made rivets, and can make welds with the forge, he'll sometimes opt to use his electric welder for a ...

Walking down the block Saturdays in Rocheport, clangs of the local blacksmith George B. Robb II are bound to reach the ear. For close to 38 years, Robb has honed his skills as a blacksmith and learned ...

A non-profit in Lake Luzerne that is one of the few places to learn the centuries-old blacksmithing trade celebrated a long-awaited expansion Wednesday. The Adirondack Folk School has been preserving ...

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 ...

Mike Whitmore shuffled thoughtfully across the fine gravel of his shop floor toward the bellows. In the coal pan, a docile red glow belies the temperatures reached after a few hard pulls on the ...

In an era where most of what we buy is mass-produced, machine-made and shipped in two days or less, artists across Denver are revitalizing old-world crafts and trades, prioritizing authentic creation.

In the poem The Village Blacksmith, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow offers this description of the blacksmith. “His hair is crisp and black and long, His face is like the tan. His brow is wet with honest ...

A rare piece of Vermont’s industrial history is for sale in Cornwall.