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 ...

Bart Johnson has only been blacksmithing for three years, but he’s used to working with tools — and he has scars to prove it. “I’ve worked with my hands all my life,” he told the shop full of ...

PALMYRA, Pa. (WHTM) — A blacksmith workshop called the Drunken Smithy offers a fun, entertaining, and educational way of making your medieval-blacksmithing dreams a reality. The Drunken Smithy is ...

Garfield Farm Museum in La Fox will offer two blacksmithing workshops Saturday. Museum staff member Joseph Coleman will present both workshops. Coleman has been in the history museum field since 2005 ...

MANITOWOC – The Manitowoc County Historical Society is hosting two winter-themed workshops as part of its Holiday Open House on Nov. 15. The workshops, which will run from noon to 3 p.m., will offer ...

Discover the detailed restoration journey of a blacksmith's leg vise in this step-by-step guide. Watch as we transform a rusty, non-functional vise into a fully restored workshop tool using welding, ...

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 ...

This is one in an occasional series profiling small businesses in the Pikes Peak region. If you have a suggestion for a subject, email bill.radford@gazette.com. As a software engineer, Ron Hardman is ...