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 ...

DURHAM — Steve Abshier held up a two-legged leather blacksmith apron. It was grommeted, charred in spots, and missing an inside corner of a leg. “Likely, we cut that piece out for a slingshot,” he ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Under a spreading chestnut treeThe village smithy stands;The smith, a mighty man is he,With large and sinewy hands…”-“The Village Blacksmith,” Henry Wadsworth LongfellowAlas, there’s no spreading ...