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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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?

In a small tin shed in a country town roughly 200 kilometres south of Perth, an old blacksmith is honing ... and I got a taste of forging with an instructor who was a metal sculptor," she ...

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 ...