This video showcases the traditional craft of blacksmithing as a metal spring is transformed into a large cleaver. Using time-tested forging techniques, the craftsman heats, hammers, and shapes the ...

CLINTON — Anyone who has ever wondered how poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s village blacksmith managed it can take a turn with bellows, hammer and anvil next spring at the Red Mill Museum Village.

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 ...

Demonstrator Tim Lemmon pounds a red-hot piece of metal into a horseshoe during the Hammer-In in Carlinville on Saturday, Nov. 1, 2025. Tim Lemmon begins fabricating a horseshoe during the Hammer-In ...

The Goat N Hammer is an Atlanta-based forge, complete with a few blacksmiths, a roaring fire and anvil. It's been quietly building a following for its bladesmithing and knife grinding instruction ...

Blacksmithing begins with mastering your tools. In this guide, we forge a hammer completely by hand using traditional techniques. Watch how raw steel is shaped under the hammer into one of the most ...

The Berea Makerspace is hosting their second Spring Hammer-In on the first weekend of May, May 3rd, in partnership with the Blacksmiths of Kentucky Facebook group. Hammer-In serves as a chance for ...

Jim Slining, a blacksmith from Scotts, Michigan, has a few theories as to why interest in his profession is growing in the United States. “First, taking something that’s a very unyielding material and ...

On a whim, I popped into the Central Virginia Blacksmith Guild 25th Anniversary Hammer-In. The three-day event took place at the Chesterfield County Fairgrounds March 10 - 12. I enjoyed the heck out ...

The Deanery Project in Lower Ship Harbour, N.S., will be host to a lot of heat and hammering on Saturday. Blacksmiths from across the Maritimes will hold a traditional hammer-in event where techniques ...