Watch as a rusty flea market sledgehammer is transformed into a precision stake anvil for blacksmithing. Follow the full process of forging, grinding, and heat treatment, and see the anvil in action!

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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 ...

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, ...

A Bellingham teen has turned a hobby into a small business."I'm a blacksmith. I've been doing it for about two years, and I kind of got into it when I was watching YouTube," Nick Riolo said.Although ...

One of the biggest challenges facing the aspiring blacksmith is procuring the tools of the trade. And that means tackling the unenviable task of finding a decent anvil. Sure, one can buy an ASO — ...

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 ...

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