Any way you look at it, blacksmithing is a punishing trade. Heavy tools, a red-hot forge, flying sparks, and searing metal all exact a toll on the smith’s body unless precautions are taken. After ...
Like the Temple of Hephaestus perched on the outskirts of Athens, the slightly less-ancient Blacksmith of Trenton shop sits in a remote corner of the city, well away from the State House and the rest ...
Long before assembly lines and power tools defined American industry, iron was shaped one strike at a time. At Greenwood ...
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 ...
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 ...
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How to Maintain a Power Hammer for Blacksmithing
In this video, I walk through essential maintenance steps for keeping a power hammer running smoothly and safely. From checking lubrication points and adjusting linkages to inspecting dies and ...
Jeffrey Funk forges a piece of steel atop an anvil inside his workshop at the New Agrarian School in Bigfork on Tuesday, Nov. 12. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake) Jeffrey Funk forges a piece of steel ...
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 ...
(WKYT) - It can be a very loud place. Maynard Studios, a few miles from Lawrenceburg, are 6,000 square feet full of worktables, stacks of steel, anvils, a machine shop, and heavy blacksmith equipment ...
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