Kate Dinneen, 51, is extra cautious when doing blacksmith work. That’s because she uses her fingers and hands to play the string bass in the Topeka Symphony Orchestra. When you think of a blacksmith ...

In a salute to its past, Historic Dublin again will have a blacksmith's shop -- or at least an artist's vision of one. Brower Hatcher's vision of the George M. Karrer blacksmith shop that stood on the ...

PROVIDENCE — When Alaina Mahoney was a painting student at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in the late aughts, she joined a group called Iron Core. “Students figured out how to melt their own ...

Yaw Owusu Shangofemi is a master of a dying art. It is a craft born when primitive man first discovered he could turn crude metal into useful objects. It is a craft that in colonial America provided ...

Blacksmith Ted McNett has established himself as one of Carroll County’s premier metal workers. The president of the Blacksmith Guild of Central Maryland, he works to keep the tradition of ...

GILLETTE -- The thunder that sounded from Fred Reum's garage meets an echo from the past. A thump, a whack, a strike. A sturdy man stood in a sliver of scarlet light -- dark, except for a warm, fiery ...

FITCHBURG — The sound of hammers pounding on hot iron will again reverberate over Riverfront Park on Sept. 27, as the 11th annual Blacksmith Art and Music Festival returns to the city, celebrating the ...

Reb Staup is a local blacksmith, woodworker and T-shirt designer living in Westminster. When Staup was young he liked to draw. “I was always interested in some type of art,” Staup said. He started ...

COLUMBIA — On a Saturday in April, David Bush was working over a portable coal-fired forge outside the Olympia Mill Village Museum. The coals burned hot. Orange, yellow and blue flames licked towards ...

David Sandlin did not set out to be a blacksmith, and he certainly didn’t set out to be the president of the Florida Artist Blacksmith Association (FABA). Even so, he will be busy Nov. 4-6 overseeing ...