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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Like the Temple of Hephaestus perched on the outskirts of Athens, the slightly less-ancient Blacksmith of Trenton shop sits in a remote corner of the city, well away from the State House and the rest ...
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 ...
Kent Knapp started blacksmithing at the age of 19. He apprenticed under a master blacksmith for a few years, but then moved to New Orleans with his wife and children, where he was unable to find a ...
With a resounding CLANG, Dave Kauffman brings the hammer down on the magma-red steel, showering the area around his anvil with glowing, 2,000-degree sparks. Kauffman is a blacksmith, and showing ...