A blacksmith’s shop is always evolving, and today I focus on both upgrades and forging. I finish out the interior sheathing of the shop, then move on to building a storage system for power hammer dies ...

Six days a week, John Austin Ellsworth fires up his forge and gets to work in a profession the modern era has largely let slip by: blacksmithing. Ellsworth, 63, has a shop on Third Street in Lewes ...

The art of forging dates to at least 4000BC and probably earlier. Metals such as bronze and wrought iron were forged by early man to produce hand toots and weapons of war. Forging of wrought iron and ...

This section of the industry may be classified as jobbing with quantities generally small varying from one off to perhaps 100 off. Tooling for producing open die work may consist of flat or shaped ...