Retired blacksmith John Dittmeier will give a lecture on blacksmithing at the Athens-Clarke County Library. He learned blacksmithing from Bill Gichner, a renowned blacksmith and tool collector. The ...

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 ...

Automated 9,000-pound air hammers standing 12 feet tall, anvils bolted onto sawed-off tree stumps and heavy racks sagging under loads of iron create the impression that David Lisch could turn out ...

The group meets the first Thursday of every month at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum’s East Chattanooga station, 2202 N. Chamberlain Ave. A demonstration at 6 p.m. is followed by a brief business ...

When Leslie Tharp began her career as a metal artist in 2009, the metalworking community in north central Florida was quite small. “You really had to leave the state to go anywhere,” Tharp said in her ...

Perkins often works in a western style, but his work ranges far wider. He put these motorcycles together out of spare bits, bolts and pieces. (Photo: Aimee Blume / Special to The Courier & Press) ...

The amateur blacksmiths were hard at work: heating metal rods, then hammering them into shape. Reheating, hammering some more, twisting and bending, and finally, hours later, creating small metal ...

Pre-1970s automotive and structural steel was thicker and had higher carbon content than what modern manufacturers use today. Techniques like hammer-welding, lead-loading, and oxy-acetylene torch work ...

Now in his retirement years, John Dittmeier has found a place to house his collections and his tools gathered from a career spent forging metal through the danger of extreme heat and the wear of human ...