The smell of heat filled the forge and clung to throats like soot on a chimney. Ward Brinegar maneuvered the blowtorch like a paint brush, carefully applying the fire within the marked spot on a piece ...

With a leather apron draped around his neck and tied at the waist, Norm Davis slides an iron rod into the burning coals in the forge in his blacksmithing shop at his northwest Topeka home. Davis ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- A pair of stone pillars and congregation of creative ironworks mark John Walter's blacksmith forge, known as Iron Eden. Lorigan Street in Bloomfield is also the road to Salvation.

Blacksmithing is indeed an ancient art, with references to the trade in writings as far back as ancient Greece and Egypt, and on throughout history. But while not too many people would be acquainted ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Sore Elbow Forge blacksmith shop is set in a yellow building off Bridger Canyon Drive near the ...

Jeffrey Funk forges a piece of steel atop an anvil inside his workshop at the New Agrarian School in Bigfork on Tuesday, Nov. 12. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake) Jeffrey Funk forges a piece of steel ...

Blacksmithing has traditionally been a male dominated profession and art, but in Red Hook, an iron woman is breaking down gender norms in this craft. Marsha Trattner runs She-Weld out of her studio in ...

Steve Austin of Austin’s Iron Works in Claycomo forges a scroll detail for a gate. He’s been a blacksmith for 43 years and his work is in such prestigious homes as that of philanthropist Julia Irene ...

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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Put down those protest banners, girls – women are officially liberated. A group of Melbourne women are forging a path in blacksmithing.