Pat Downing has perhaps the rarest job in all of San Diego: a blacksmith. The Clairemont resident and San Diego native works part time as a traditional blacksmith in Old Town. The other hours are ...

PROVIDENCE — When Alaina Mahoney was a painting student at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in the late aughts, she joined a group called Iron Core. “Students figured out how to melt their own ...

Asked what it feels like to forge iron, Robert Thomas has to pause for a moment and compose himself before plunging into a description of what, for him, is as much a passion as a livelihood. "Forging ...

Coletta, who came to blacksmithing through a business in structural steel, said that his building requirements were small – 400 square feet of space, with a concrete floor – and that the old ...

When you think of a blacksmith, you probably think back to colonial times, a rugged, Founding Father-type with rolled-up sleeves, hammering away on an anvil. But the art form is alive and well today, ...

TACOMA, Wash. – It’s a sound that’s echoed through the centuries since antiquity. It’s the sound Vulcan made at his forge under Mount Etna. It’s the sound memorialized in Longfellow’s “The Village ...

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