CARBONDALE ” Who could have guessed that an inquisitive, young blacksmith working on a ranch 20 years ago for $6 an hour could have turned a molehill into a mountain? That is, a mountain of metal. A ...

Ken Kurtz cranks a blower as its gears scream, stoking flames in the blacksmith’s forge, the center of the coals reaching more than 2,000 degrees. He removes a piece of metal from its resting place in ...

With a resounding CLANG, Dave Kauffman brings the hammer down on the magma-red steel, showering the area around his anvil with glowing, 2,000-degree sparks. Kauffman is a blacksmith, and showing ...

James Anderson’s Blacksmith Shop in Colonial Williamsburg is a world of activity. With forges fired up, hammers hit away at metal, hand-held files grind down fine detail work and sunlight seeps ...

For master blacksmith Steve Stone, an interest in metal work began when his dad taught him how to weld when he was young. This hobby would later help jumpstart a career in horseshoe-making. “I really ...

NEWTONIA, Mo. — The incessant clang of hammers on anvils reverberated through the air, a sound carried into the distance by the chilled morning wind that whipped at the faces of blacksmiths as they ...