CEDAR FALLS, Iowa --- Blacksmith George Shimek's motto: "If you got an idea, I'll build it." "Whatever anybody wants," he said Friday during a demonstration at the Old Time Power Show at Antique ...

The federal government recently added blacksmiths to the Australian Apprenticeships Priority List, which offers wage subsidies to businesses if they take on apprentices.

The 21st-century blacksmith makes hand-forged steel railings, gates, other architectural decorations, furniture, fireplace enclosures and other objects from his home workshop.

Sean Lizama, the son of master blacksmith Frank Lizama, hammers the beginnings of a fusino, a traditional Chamoru farming tool, into shape while a fellow blacksmith apprentice, James Aevermann ...