MISSOULA, Mont. — Frank McKinney, a blacksmith and American history buff in Alberton, spends much of his time in his garage. There, he has a collection of forges — the furnaces where blacksmiths heat ...

This video provides a step-by-step guide on forging your own blacksmith's knife. It covers the entire process, including ...

Blacksmiths in Colorado use their anvils to turn guns into gardening tools, reshaping America’s gun culture one strike of the hammer at a time. This is the work of the “Swords to Plows” initiative of ...

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 ...

He started blacksmithing a couple of years ago to make decorative steel frames for the intricate, multi-layered silhouette ‘‘pictures'' he makes by cutting out his hand-drawn designs from plate steel ...

The blacksmiths at RAWtools, Inc. have been travel the country turning guns into garden tools as part of their efforts to forge peace through art, and on Friday night, they did it in Boise, as part of ...

HANOVER – Ray Larsen was in his mid-30s, an award-winning journalist who had shared a Pulitzer Prize, when he spotted the object that changed his life. A forge in a friend’s yard sparked a midlife ...

WALTHAM - A Massachusetts blacksmith is doing something unique with old weapons, melting down guns taken off the streets and turning them into garden tools. "Move metal is what blacksmiths say," said ...

Three men inside Cooper's Blacksmith Shop at Fifth Street and Broadway in Vancouver interrupt their work to pose for a photo. From left to right: owner M.J. Cooper, J.E. Johnson and Heckman (first ...

CARBONDALE – An older man dressed in denim – a navy blue handkerchief stuffed in his back pocket – tends to a blacksmith’s fire.He sprinkles Borax over the glowing orange-hot coals, moving them around ...

MISSOULA (AP) — Frank McKinney, a blacksmith and American history buff in Alberton, spends much of his time in his garage. There, he has a collection of forges — the furnaces where blacksmiths heat ...