Eventually, this process broke one of the anvils, but Thomson, being a resourceful blacksmith, repaired it by riveting plate on both sides of it. And the anvil continued to be used to celebrate ...

Guided by patent drawings, Shimek once built a ... He appreciates the passing of equipment from one blacksmith to the next. For example, his anvil --- the heavy steel or iron block with a flat ...

Sometimes they include anvils and fire ... for The New York Times Blacksmith work can be more dangerous than other crafts. For some students, that intensity is the draw. They are tapping into ...

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.

PORT TOWNSEND — After working as a blacksmith most of his life, Jim Garrett found it natural to cast his future as an anvil manufacturer in 2007. After all, he pounds out and shapes metal for a ...