It was a bit of a surprise then to see the RevSpace forge, and I found myself borrowing a blacksmith’s apron to protect my smart officewear and grabbing a bit of rebar. I set to and made a ...

It is an incredible amount of work to forge a pair of fireplace tongs. Like, this blacksmith should be awarded with a medal that lets everyone know that they should pat him on the back.

The set-up looks old-school – a furnace, anvil and two blacksmiths hammering in tandem to coax a hot steel rod into a pair of tongs. But for Adam’s Forge in Los Angeles’ Glassell Park ...

But blacksmithing never felt alien ... along with equipment ranging from anvils and tongs to air-driven power hammers. First, I needed a forge. I considered buying a gas-powered model, but ...

For me, the area I decided to try out was blacksmithing ... the use of tongs, not least in trying to get the metal in the right orientation. The heating process requires a forge, in this ...

His three-level program was adopted by the national Artistic Blacksmith's Association, and it routinely sells out here at Adam's Forge. "It's exciting for me. There are a lot of people developing ...

A group of Melbourne women are forging a path in ... now starting to work as a paid blacksmith.Credit: Simon O'Dwyer You want a wrought iron gate? A set of tongs for the fire?

June workshops include Blacksmithing Fundamentals with Tony Stewart and Hammers and Tongs with Funk and Knives for the Outdoors with Jordan LaMothe. In July, Funk will teach Forging from the ...

Regular readers will recognise this as the third part of a series exploring blacksmithing ... of tongs, though we can’t promise in advance the quality of the finished article. My usual forging ...