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 ...

Wood-fired forges burn cleaner than forges that require coal. I want to start blacksmithing. What’s the difference between wood-burning forges and coal-burning forges? And can you really get a ...

Victor Andersen hasn’t spent much time away from his anvil, forge and belt drive for 60 years. The century-old appliances are more than the tools of his trade. They are what give one of few remaining ...

There he was, fresh out of graduate school, with no income for materials, set up in a garage on the former family estate at the Redding border, surrounded by heirloom tools that his grandfather ...

While modern technology offers improvements — such as gas-powered forges, pneumatic hammers, and advances in metallurgy — Luark prefers to use the old-fashioned techniques and tools of traditional ...

AVON — Hot coals, molten iron and the clang of metal on metal. This is therapy, blacksmith-style. Ken and MaryLou Zitur have owned Ken's Custom Iron since 1988, creating ironwork and metal fabrication ...

There’s no real need for the skills of a blacksmith these days, but that doesn’t stop devotees of the art — and science — from gathering around the forge at the Freetown Historical Society on ...

DOTHAN, Ala. -- The steel rod glowed bright orange in the coals, stoked by air from the 19th century-era bellows. Steve Lowery picked up the rod with the scorching end and placed it on an anvil, then ...