Learn how to forge a split cross using beginner-friendly blacksmithing techniques, including heating, splitting, and shaping steel into a decorative metalwork project.

Adam's Forge is a dark, high-ceilinged warehouse space in Los Angeles. It's set up with anvils, medieval-looking tools and black ovens that breathe fire. Recently, about a dozen people gathered for an ...

The sweltering heat had finally moved on and Giant Tick season was coming to a close (not kidding, they are HUGE here), when I decided to fire up my hacked together blacksmith forge made out of an old ...

POP Projects is a collection of new and classic projects from more than a century of Popular Mechanics. Master skills, get tool recommendations, and, most importantly, build something of your very own ...

The village smithy celebrated in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1840 poem about blacksmiths glows again in Washington-area workshops lit by flaming forges. Blacksmithing is enjoying a revival as ...

Young blacksmith Conor Murray from Kelferagh outside Kilkee on the Loop Head peninsula is opening his forge for Culture Night to show how he is using the traditional skills of the trade which stretch ...

From plain to legendary! Watch two hammers get a Viking-inspired makeover with intricate designs and custom leather-wrapped handles.

Simon Hall, tenant blacksmith at the National Trust’s Branscombe Forge has been crowned as the National live forging champion for the sixth year in a row. His traditionally made boot puller, made in ...