Watch as a rusty flea market sledgehammer is transformed into a precision stake anvil for blacksmithing. Follow the full ...

Anvils have been around since ancient times. Basically, anvils are used to forge and shape metal. The first anvils were made of stone, then bronze, then wrought iron, then steel-faced wrought iron, ...

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Transforming an old sledgehammer from a flea market find into a new blacksmithing tool for my workshop. In this project, I forged a stake anvil using one half of the sledgehammer. Stephen Colbert ...

Coletta, who came to blacksmithing through a business in structural steel, said that his building requirements were small – 400 square feet of space, with a concrete floor – and that the old ...

PORT TOWNSEND — After working as a blacksmith most of his life, Jim Garrett found it natural to forge ahead as an anvil manufacturer in 2007. After all, he pounds out and shapes metal for a living ...