Jim Slining, a blacksmith from Scotts, Michigan, has a few theories as to why interest in his profession is growing in the United States. “First, taking something that’s a very unyielding material and ...

You can’t tell the story of Darryl Nelson without Timberline Lodge; and you can’t tell the story of Timberline Lodge without Darryl Nelson. Of the two, Timberline Lodge is far better known. Set just ...

Blacksmith Weston Paas knows what it’s like to keep a juicy secret. He’s been keeping one for the last six months that involves $10,000 and the title of champion. The owner of Heart’s Fire Forge, a ...

Travel back in time a couple hundred years at the Presidio Museum, which is holding blacksmithing demonstrations on Wednesday, Dec. 28. Visitors can also fire the bellows of the blacksmith’s fire and ...

FOSSTON, MN--This week’s Gem is keeping an old art form alive, and he says in the process, it saved his life. At nearly 15-hundred degrees, Tony Roed’s blade is hot and ready for his latest handmade ...

KALAMAZOO, MI — Fans of the History Channel’s popular TV show, “Forged in Fire,” will have the chance to see the fiery domain of a Kalamazoo blacksmith lair Wednesday night. Combat Ready Art, owned by ...