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 ...

The group meets the first Thursday of every month at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum’s East Chattanooga station, 2202 N. Chamberlain Ave. A demonstration at 6 p.m. is followed by a brief business ...

A journeyman blacksmith, Talon Cavender-Wilson melds traditional Scandinavian metal working skills with design and art from his Dakota roots and beyond. Talon Cavender-Wilson decided he wanted to ...

When Leslie Tharp began her career as a metal artist in 2009, the metalworking community in north central Florida was quite small. “You really had to leave the state to go anywhere,” Tharp said in her ...

The amateur blacksmiths were hard at work: heating metal rods, then hammering them into shape. Reheating, hammering some more, twisting and bending, and finally, hours later, creating small metal ...

LAWRENCE, Mass. (AP) - Nowadays, many people think of a blacksmith as someone who makes horseshoes and nails them onto the animal’s hooves. Richard Wright, a blacksmith who has been in the trade for ...

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 ...