In this video, I transform an old sledgehammer from a flea market find into a new blacksmithing tool for my workshop. The project involves forging a stake anvil using one half of the sledgehammer, ...

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For the past few months we’ve been running this series of Blacksmithing For The Uninitiated posts, exploring the art of forge work for a novice. It’s based upon my experience growing up around a ...

Anvils have been around since ancient times. Basically, anvils are used to forge and shape metal. The first anvils were made of stone, then bronze, then wrought iron, then steel-faced wrought iron, ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. An anvil is a big steel workbench, where blacksmiths do most of their forging work - that’s when you hit the hot steel with the hammer ...

New hobbies can be expensive. Remember the cash you had to shell out the last time you took up something new? It was probably painful. But I’m here to tell you that doesn’t have to be the case with ...

Haul out the anvil and forge this essential bench tool! Haul out the anvil and forge this essential bench tool! Blacksmith Peter Ross shows how to forge historical versions of this powerful gripper.

PORT TOWNSEND — After working as a blacksmith most of his life, Jim Garrett found it natural to forge ahead as an anvil manufacturer in 2007. After all, he pounds out and shapes metal for a living ...