Early settlers relied on andirons and pokers for efficient fires and cooking. Blacksmiths turned these tools into folk art, ...
TACOMA — It’s a sound that’s echoed through the centuries since antiquity. It’s the sound Vulcan made at his forge under Mount Etna. It’s the sound memorialized in Longfellow’s “The Village Blacksmith ...
Classical music resonated in the background as Fred Odell mulled around his dark cluttered garage studio laden with iron, fireplace tools, hammers, an anvil and a melange of other blacksmith ...
Master blacksmith Vaughn Shafer had a dream go up in smoke this month. He’s just glad his house didn’t go up in flames. Shafer was selected to show his work at ArtPrize 2013 in Grand Rapids, Mich. The ...