I share tips and techniques for crafting stronger, more precise tools in the blacksmith shop, making every project smoother and more efficient.

It’s not a weapon - but it looks like one. In this brutal build, we forge a pickaroon from raw steel - a tool made to grip, ...

After learning about one of the oldest tool making methods — flint knapping — outside of Fort Watauga at Sycamore Shoals State Historic Site, I later traveled to the Exchange Place Fall Festival in ...

Saltfork Craftsmen Artist-Blacksmiths are showcasing traditional blacksmithing at the Oklahoma State Fair’s Frontier Experience.

CHARLOTTE - Tucked away in a small wooden shed down a winding rural road in Charlotte, Michael Harrigan's Urthona Forge is fairly unassuming from the outside, save for a lone sign that reads ...

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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Blacksmith Seth Pauley remembers the first time he felt the magic of his craft. He was making a gardening trowel, and he struck the steel with his hammer just right. “It felt like hitting a piece of ...

PROVIDENCE–When Alaina Mahoney was a painting student at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in the late aughts, she ...