What begins as a worn transmission shaft transforms into a molten, glowing core of potential inside the forge. Each hammer ...

Scandinavian metallurgists recreate legendary damascene-patterned steels from atomized metal powders. Damascene steel is an advanced form of blacksmithing recognizable by the decorative pattern on the ...

Thin sheets of steel stack into a towering billet that glows bright within the roaring furnace. As the forge welds each layer ...

Hoang Manh Chien, a young blacksmith, is among the few individuals in Vietnam who possess the skill to create legendary Damascus steel. This type of steel is famous for producing exquisite, expensive, ...

David Sowards-Emmerd loves beer. He also enjoys forging utilitarian fine art on the blacksmithing gear he has set up in the garage of his Cambrian area home. So it makes a certain sense that he would ...

“Forging soul into steel” — that’s the motto of artist blacksmith and bladesmith Owen Bush. Working out of his forge in Welling, Kent, Owen lives out his passion for hot working of metals. A nicely ...

Forging Blades 03:52 04/11/2013 A single blade for a Damascus knife is made up of a hundred layers of super-heated steel. Warburg smith Hans Jürgen Kugland pounds them until they actually fuse ...