Wiregrass Forge is showing off, and the local blacksmith club doesn’t want to lose its edge… or curves, or braids, or any angle possible with the endless items of art its members have created. The ...

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 ...

Now in his retirement years, John Dittmeier has found a place to house his collections and his tools gathered from a career spent forging metal through the danger of extreme heat and the wear of human ...

Darla Selander is 57 years old, 5-foot-nothing and can do more pushups than you. She also likes red leather jackets, diamond earrings and—above all—her rough, calloused hands. All of these are ...

Reb Staup is a local blacksmith, woodworker and T-shirt designer living in Westminster. When Staup was young he liked to draw. “I was always interested in some type of art,” Staup said. He started ...

The Clifton neighborhood workshop is a step back in time, more 1800s gothic novel than 2021 America with its myriad of ancient tools blackened by years of use. Billowing sheets of plastic hang from ...

After my visit down to the Living History Park in North Augusta last month, where the Phillip Simmons Blacksmithing Guild held what they call a “Hammer-In” demonstration, I was hooked on the craft. My ...

Retired blacksmith John Dittmeier will give a lecture on blacksmithing at the Athens-Clarke County Library. He learned blacksmithing from Bill Gichner, a renowned blacksmith and tool collector. The ...