Black Beard Projects on MSN

Making a Blacksmith Forge from Scratch

I built a forge and am excited to move on to various blacksmithing projects. All the steel used in this build was sourced ...
Coletta, who came to blacksmithing through a business in structural steel, said that his building requirements were small – 400 square feet of space, with a concrete floor – and that the old ...
Photo by Peter Cihelka /The Free Lance-Star via AP Justin Jennings fashions a chef's knife at Black Horse Forge in Stafford County, Va. FREDERICKSBURG, Va. — Steve Hotz found his groove in ...
Guest artist blacksmith and instructor Ellen Durkan works on a piece Tuesday during a four-day workshop at Crooked Path Forge in Gainesville. Crooked Path Forge, a blacksmith school tucked away in a ...
PONTIAC — Decatur’s Scott Davidson said he spends his Thursdays working his forge at home with two of his sons, 15-year-old Brennan and 16-year-old Samuel. The family forging party trekked out Friday ...
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Forging a Steel Sunflower for Ukraine

In this emotional blacksmithing project, steel and flame come together to create a sunflower - the national symbol of hope ...
Members of Alfred University’s Anvil Club will be working on their blacksmithing projects throughout the summer and invites the public to view these demonstrations. Club members will be set up in the ...
Regular readers will recognise this as the third part of a series exploring blacksmithing for those who have perhaps always fancied having a go but have never quite known where to start. It’s written ...
As the ancient art of blacksmithing has faded into antiquity through most parts of the country, including California, Yolo County is keeping the tradition alive and well with a modern-day twist. The ...
As he has nearly every day for most of his 78 years, Carl Uebner still comes to work in the blacksmith shop his stepfather founded on Vallejo”s Broadway Street (then 205 Napa Road) in 1915, though he ...