To Grove City resident Jim Brown, the purest form of blacksmithing boils down to the hammer, fire and anvil. "If I can get it hot enough and hold it still long enough, I can make it," said Brown, a ...

Blacksmith Luo Futai, 59, owned a small smithy in Xuchang city, Central China's Henan province. Although few people now need metal products handmade by a blacksmith, Luo Futai, who has worked in the ...

EDEN, Utah (AP) — For three-quarters of a century, the ringing sound of hammer on anvil reverberated through the turn-of-the-century blacksmith shop in Ogden Valley. And then, the forge fell silent.