After proper safety equipment and good training, a blacksmith may want to invest is power hammer to replace at least some of the heavy hammer work needed to shape hot metal. Power hammers aren’t ...

Like the Temple of Hephaestus perched on the outskirts of Athens, the slightly less-ancient Blacksmith of Trenton shop sits in a remote corner of the city, well away from the State House and the ...

But blacksmithing never felt alien ... along with equipment ranging from anvils and tongs to air-driven power hammers. First, I needed a forge. I considered buying a gas-powered model, but ...

While some blacksmiths came to the craft as part of ... If I’m working at the forge, using heat and a power hammer, I charge $145 an hour; straight-up fabrications are $75 an hour.

A hammer rattles against a piece of hot iron as blacksmith Randy Dack turns the iron into a tool for a customer to use. Dack considers himself a utilitarian blacksmith. “I like my iron to be ...

“I met an older blacksmith, and he invited me to take ... Schuster then uses a machine called a “power hammer” to texture and taper the pieces. The various parts are later pieced together ...

A group of Melbourne women are forging a path in blacksmithing. And with its anvils, coke fires and power hammers, there may not be a more blokey pursuit to conquer. Photograph Simon O'Dwyer.

A far north Queensland blacksmith is pivoting his business after a surge in interest from people wanting to learn the ancient trade. Following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather ...