Visitors to Kinder Farm Park’s Fall Harvest Festival in October were fascinated visiting the Chesapeake Forge Blacksmith Guild workshop. Carter, one of the guild’s most active members, was back at the ...

A potato hoe is a simple but essential tool — and the perfect blacksmithing project. Here’s how I hammered raw steel into a durable hoe blade, fitted it to a handle, and created a tool ready for the ...

Some say this country evolved on the backs of blacksmiths who supplied and repaired tools and equipment, household goods and weapons through the Colonial era. Working at a hot brick hearth or forge, ...