The Pennsylvania Artist-Blacksmiths’ Association held its annual Blacksmith Day Saturday at Old Dry Road Farm in Lower Heidelberg Township. Activities at the free event included forging demonstrations ...

If you ever wanted to learn about blacksmithing, Samuel Dembitsky is your man. “If you want to know something, start asking questions,” the tall elderly man with a burly mustache quipped. “And if I ...

Thousands of years ago, a highly skilled blacksmith hammered away in a workshop, forging iron into swords, wheels or other complex objects. The “master blacksmith” is long gone but, as archaeologists ...

ATLANTA, Ind. (THE REPORTER) — The 43rd annual Indiana Blacksmithing Association (IBA) Conference is coming to the Tipton County Fairgrounds, 1200 S. Main St., Tipton, June 6 to 8, and Friday night’s ...

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 ...

May the forge be with blacksmith Roger Chudzik. He’s keeping an anachronistic trade alive in an era of mass production, working the iron at his shop in an old mill complex in Dorchester. His is not ...

HAMPTON — The historic blacksmith shop on Barbour Road could undergo renovations after Town Meeting this March, as voters will be asked to approve $20,000 in repairs to the shop. The blacksmith shop ...

Folks not only find unique vintage items to repurpose, they also find old unique buildings and restore them. Rhonda Schell, owner of 143, a new shop in Rollingstone, has not only chosen an ideal ...

Ken Kurtz cranks a blower as its gears scream, stoking flames in the blacksmith’s forge, the center of the coals reaching more than 2,000 degrees. He removes a piece of metal from its resting place in ...

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