DURHAM — Steve Abshier held up a two-legged leather blacksmith apron. It was grommeted, charred in spots, and missing an inside corner of a leg. “Likely, we cut that piece out for a slingshot,” he ...

A face darkened with soot, strong arms, and hands like a vice grip, the blacksmith was a breed all his own. He may not have initially looked it, but he was one of the most important figures in any ...

Blacksmith Phil Trabel, of Fountain Hill makes a nail in 1750’s fashion at the The Moravian Blacksmith Shop. The Da Vinci Science Center fell short of its first year attendance goals in downtown ...

Regular readers will recognise this as the third part of a series exploring blacksmithing for those who have perhaps always fancied having a go but have never quite known where to start. It’s written ...