Wiregrass Forge is showing off, and the local blacksmith club doesn’t want to lose its edge… or curves, or braids, or any angle possible with the endless items of art its members have created. The ...

Flurries of sparks and intense heat don’t seem to faze the blacksmith apprentices of Lizama’s Forge. Each one looks calm as they focus on their tasks. Sean Lizama, the son of master blacksmith Frank ...

For many years – more than three decades – Frank C. “Beef” Lizama, originally from Barrigada, was happy to teach blacksmithing to anyone who asked. He was an artist, a carver and a craftsman first, ...

FOSSTON, MN--This week’s Gem is keeping an old art form alive, and he says in the process, it saved his life. At nearly 15-hundred degrees, Tony Roed’s blade is hot and ready for his latest handmade ...

KALAMAZOO, MI — Artist and blacksmith Jon Reeves faces temperatures of almost 3,000 degrees at his forge in the heart of downtown Kalamazoo. Located in the Park Trades Center, his studio, Combat Ready ...

By night, Luark becomes a craftsman of an earlier era, creating decorative and utilitarian objects of hand-forged steel in the age-old art of blacksmithing. Luark is one of a small contingent of ...

Flurries of sparks and intense heat don’t seem to faze the blacksmith apprentices of Lizama’s Forge. Each one looks calm as they focus on their tasks. Sean Lizama, the son of master blacksmith Frank ...