MONTEREY — The metallic ping-ping-ping echoing these days across this village is the sound of rebellion. Follow the sound and you'll come upon a tall, lean, soot-smeared man set against a backdrop of ...

PITTSFIELD -- A hot forge is perhaps the last place you want to be on a Berkshire summer day. But blacksmith apprentice Spijk Selby and his teacher Jim Szalkucki don't seem to mind. They work well ...

I built a forge and am excited to move on to various blacksmithing projects. All the steel used in this build was sourced from a local metal scrapyard, along with a brake drum from a vehicle recycling ...

He uses a gas-powered forge built by his friend and fellow blacksmith, Jim Bolinger, as a backup and to put finishing touches on his work. And while he uses the traditional blacksmithing method of ...

Kristopher Mercy of Sanford is a person with many interests. Among playing in the pit orchestra for the Great Lakes Bay Regional Alliance’s production of “Mama Mia!” and taking online classes, he also ...

HOLDREGE, Neb. -- Lee Samuelson bought a blacksmith forge years before his son, Tye, was born. "I had bought the forge back in the 1980s or '90s from a farm sale, but I never knew how to light it up," ...