Artisan blacksmiths from the tri-state area will be firing up the forges on Saturday for the 39th annual Hammer-In Festival at the W.A. Young & Sons Foundry and Machine Shop in Rices Landing.

Pieces of red-hot steel were shaped into close to 200 useful or decorative items Saturday as area blacksmiths gathered for the annual Hammer-In event at Laughlintown’s Compass Inn Museum. Visitors ...

The 30-pound weight of the industrial hammer falls down onto the strip of steel. Suddenly, the tone changes. Ting. Ting. Ting. It’s time for the piece to go back into the glowing coals of the forge.

On a whim, I popped into the Central Virginia Blacksmith Guild 25th Anniversary Hammer-In. The three-day event took place at the Chesterfield County Fairgrounds March 10 - 12. I enjoyed the heck out ...

Regular readers will recognise this as the third part of a series exploring blacksmithing for those who have perhaps always fancied having a go but have never quite known where to start. It’s written ...

A somber voice as if from the past guided blacksmithing student Paul Zimmerman Saturday in Willow Street. "Heat that back up and whale on it!" the voice cried. Zimmerman returned his quarter-inch ...

TACOMA — 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 Blacksmith ...