Early Ohio cooks relied on iron trivets to control heat over open fires. These tools evolved from simple cookware to ornate ...

To a driver passing through the Temescal district in Oakland, the house with the high wooden fences looks like any other in the looming shadow of Highway 24. But a closer look reveals whimsical dragon ...

GAYLORD — A rhythmic hammering is established as blacksmith George Magsig strikes and shapes the tip of a red hot steel bar on the anvil before returning it to the fiery forge for additional heating. ...

Back in the 18th and early 19th Centuries, many wrought-iron objects such as cooking implements and lighting devices were beautifully embellished with highly decorative designs to show off the ...

[Will Stelter], a promising young blacksmith working out of Montana, had a terrific idea for a unique composite material for finishing off a knife build. This build is a collaboration between multiple ...

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 ...

Ten years ago Benjamin Young was found in a field trampled by cows and close to death. He recalls fixing a water trough at a dairy farm that day before riding off to the next job on a motorcycle. The ...

There are certain traditions that define Milwaukee -- brewing beer, making sausage, handcrafting shoes, ironworking. During the late 19th-mid 20th centuries, Cyril Colnik put Milwaukee on the ...

A TEAM of iron workers is celebrating after scooping the first prize at one of the region's biggest agricultural shows. The trio of blacksmiths, from Little Newsham Forge, near Winston, in Teesdale, ...

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