A blacksmith and a specialty knife retailer joined forces to launch a Portland business that makes and sells hand-forged knives designed and crafted in small batches. Kiran Chapman of Soma Metalwork ...

FOSSTON, MN--This week’s Gem is keeping an old art form alive, and he says in the process, it saved his life. At nearly 15-hundred degrees, Tony Roed’s blade is hot and ready for his latest handmade ...

There’s nothing quite like the glow of hot steel, the ring of a hammer, and the moment a blade takes shape. At Knives Project ...

FRANKENMUTH, MI — Visitors to Frankenmuth can now try their hand at the art of blacksmithing and forge their own knife, magic wand, rune pendant and more at the Bavarian Blacksmith Experience. The new ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - The Blacksmith Experience hosted its fourth annual knife making competition on Saturday at the USS Alabama Battleship Park. Blacksmiths from around the area and the county ...

Every passion starts with a flame - and Nic Overton’s passion for blacksmithing has been burning since he was 12 years old. “I went to a campout in 2008 through a program through my church, and there ...

KALAMAZOO, MI — Artist and blacksmith Jon Reeves faces temperatures of almost 3,000 degrees at his forge in the heart of downtown Kalamazoo. Located in the Park Trades Center, his studio, Combat Ready ...

is a new school in Harrison owned and run by David McConnell. McConnell has been blacksmithing for about 17 years and bladesmithing for about five years, he’s been on the History Channel on Forged in ...

In his Armada garage, Eric Hemker wears a full face shield, a baseball cap and noise-cancelling headphones blasting anything from screamo heavy-metal music to Frank Sinatra. He used to just spend time ...

Some 700 years ago, a famous Japanese blacksmith from Kyoto, named Kuniyasu Chiyozuru, came to the village of Takefu (now Echizen) in the state, or prefecture, called Fukui. There, he transformed the ...