Twisting a white-hot piece of iron into an oyster shucker, ... Murphy isn’t confined to the 19th century in his own home shop, and uses power tools like a modern-day blacksmith, ...

Forging hope: The Oakland blacksmith who's making guns into garden tools In California's most violent big city, a local artisan is teaming up with a faith-based nonprofit to get guns off the ...

The amateur blacksmiths were hard at work: heating metal rods, then hammering them into shape. Reheating, hammering some more, twisting and bending, and finally, hours later, creating small metal ...

Waltham blacksmith turns surrendered guns into garden tools 02:11. WALTHAM - A Massachusetts blacksmith is doing something unique with old weapons, melting down guns taken off the streets and ...

Pastor and hobbyist blacksmith Joel Shenk transformed guns from the Lima Police Department into garden tools in Lima on Saturday. LIMA — The sound of a hammer striking metal in downtown Lima on ...

Blacksmiths work by heating pieces of wrought iron or steel until the metal becomes soft enough for shaping with hand tools, such as a hammer, an anvil and a chisel.

Luark is one of a small contingent of 19th-century throwbacks in western Montana who belong to the Northern Rockies Blacksmith Association. "There's a bunch of us in the group," says Luark, as he ...