SOUTH BEND - Sparks fly as Jamie DePriest leans over a welding torch, joining together two slender curved steel rods to form the shape of a horse's chest. The work requires a helmet and fireproof ...

The mild smell of burning coal fills a warm workshop stocked with beefy equipment that dates from a century or three ago. John Latowski takes a blacksmith’s hammer and whacks at a glowing metal rod to ...

Sometimes the simplest tools show the most skill. In this video, we forge a large, basic trivet from steel using traditional ...