In this video, we explore an easy blacksmithing project that demonstrates how to forge weld high carbon steel to mild steel for tool making, specifically a woodturning tool. **Index of Operation and ...

Blacksmith Seth Pauley remembers the first time he felt the magic of his craft. He was making a gardening trowel, and he struck the steel with his hammer just right. “It felt like hitting a piece of ...

The project begins with a cone hardy, a compact forge tool used for shaping curves and rings. Once finished, it helps turn heated steel into a series of clean, practical hooks.

Walk into any well-stocked potting shed built before 1960 and you’ll likely find tools still doing their job, decades after they were forged. That’s not nostalgia talking. It’s a fact that keeps ...