This video explores forging an organic metal shape using only a hammer. It shows how controlled strikes and heat manipulation ...

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 ...

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 ...

I forged a brick hammer the old-school way — fire, steel, and zero factory shortcuts. In a world of cheap imports, this is what real tools (and real skill) look like.

For the past few months we’ve been running this series of Blacksmithing For The Uninitiated posts, exploring the art of forge work for a novice. It’s based upon my experience growing up around a ...