Perched on a stool behind an anvil and a 5-pound mallet, the expert blacksmith and knife maker waited for the first group of patrons who signed up for a session with the "Angry Giant." But Jason ...

Years ago, Shaun Williams began hammering his own armor out of cold sheet metal to wear to a Renaissance festival at Snyder Park in Fort Lauderdale. He later graduated to a blowtorch and eventually ...

I visited master blacksmith Torbjörn Åhman to forge a rounding hammer. Watch the full hammer-making process and see the ...

KALAMAZOO Rachel David has an easygoing nature and a laugh in her voice. One wouldn't expect that her favorite thing to do is take steel, "bring it up to about 2,200 degrees and smash the crap out of ...