TACOMA — It’s a sound that’s echoed through the centuries since antiquity. It’s the sound Vulcan made at his forge under Mount Etna. It’s the sound memorialized in Longfellow’s “The Village Blacksmith ...

With a resounding CLANG, Dave Kauffman brings the hammer down on the magma-red steel, showering the area around his anvil with glowing, 2,000-degree sparks. Kauffman is a blacksmith, and showing ...

Two young blacksmiths showed their metal when their pieces were selected for an exhibition. Jake Souch and Joel Robertson-Robinson, two of the qualifying level three blacksmithing students from ...

Hobby crafts are growing in popularity. Sometimes they include anvils and fire. By Amelia Nierenberg Reporting from Brookfield and Wolcott, Conn. The amateur blacksmiths were hard at work: heating ...