Some anvils are built for blacksmiths, artisans who form red hot metal on a surface, such as making a knife blade or building decorative iron fences.

Dittmeier also received his first anvil as a gift from Gichner. The anvil, used the world over by blacksmiths, generally weigh from 150 to 200 pounds and more.

Watch the amazinf process of transforming a rusty, discarded bearing into functional cobbler tools using traditional ...

Western Reserve Artist Blacksmith Association recently held its annual conference with Anna Koplik who demonstrated new ...

Ray Ginty of Madison didn't always know he wanted to be a blacksmith. In fact, as a child, he wasn't in-terested in history at all, and he hardly ever spent time wondering where nails and hinges ...

Every month, members and guests of the Prairie Blacksmith Association gather for demonstrations and group projects.

The Museum of Appalachia is sending anvils into the sky to celebrate the Fourth of July, just like pioneers used to celebrate major events.

Blacksmiths work by heating pieces of wrought iron or steel until the metal becomes soft enough for shaping with hand tools, such as a hammer, an anvil and a chisel.

The Museum of Appalachia hosted its annual Independence Day Anvil Shoot Celebration for the 4th of July, launching hundred pound anvils into the sky.

The Max Carey Blacksmith Guild has a legacy of blacksmiths dating back to prominent blacksmith Orville (Pug) Carey, who had his blacksmith shop near the rail roadtracks at the foot of McDonald ...

If your home is not yet decorated with a “horseshoe for good luck”, you simply must visit the town of Sviyazhsk, where some of the best blacksmiths in the country have been working for centuries!