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The scorching heat of a forge, the resonating vibration of steel shaping steel, the scent of hot metal being quenched in oil.
Chloe Greenwood, a self-taught blacksmith who volunteers at Jerusalem Mill Village, strikes an ingot on an anvil in the barn. She reenacts colonial American blacksmithing techniques as they would ...
Just finished building my first forge (coal) two weeks ago, and picked up a great deal on a 200+ year old Peter Wright anvil. Been hammering away at the local blacksmith’s guild meetings, now I ...
You blacksmith from a coke fire, not coal. It’s hotter, cleaner, and much more pleasant after the sulfurs gone. You may get away with smithing from a coal fire, but it is critical for forge welding.
Muskogee Blacksmith Wins 'Forged In Fire' History Channel Competition Nic Overton, a Muskogee blacksmith, followed his passion and won a $10,000 television competition on the History Channel.
There were two kinds of forges that blacksmith Joshua Meyer expected to encounter when he agreed to compete before millions of viewers on the TV series “Forged in Fire.” The first forge was ...
One of the spectators on hand coined a technical term for the demonstration. "Neat as all get out." Lowery's Civil War-era blacksmithing demonstration was the highlight of a recent Wiregrass Forge ...
He has just fired up the forge to make bottle openers — stylish, tapered, little 7-inch steel twigs, with a whimsical curlicue on one end and an authoritative burr on the other. He's preparing for a ...
The family behind Chapel Hill Forge in Conestoga, Ethan "Bud" Lawrie, 10, pours wax to make fire starters in his families barn on Tuesday, December 3, 2019. SUZETTE WENGER | Staff Photographer ...
ABOVE: Blacksmith Weston Paas owns Heart’s Fire Forge and is a part-time instructor at Kilroy’s Workshop in Colorado Springs. He is a History channel “Forged in Fire” champion.
Muskogee Blacksmith Wins 'Forged In Fire' History Channel Competition Nic Overton, a Muskogee blacksmith, followed his passion and won a $10,000 television competition on the History Channel.