Independent Record

Missoula blacksmith forges traditional tools

While modern technology offers improvements — such as gas-powered forges, pneumatic hammers, and advances in metallurgy — Luark prefers to use the old-fashioned techniques and tools of traditional ...
Missoulian

Blacksmith pounds out traditional tools and art forged in the fires of yesteryear

While modern technology offers improvements - such as gas-powered forges, pneumatic hammers, and advances in metallurgy - Luark prefers to use the old-fashioned techniques and tools of traditional ...
The York Dispatch

Fawn Grove blacksmith preserves tradition, competes on The History Channel

In the Fawn Grove workshop he built by hand, using materials from an old oak tree and a house built in the 1860s, Derick Kemper forges steel and iron into works of art. The 34-year-old is a ...
South Bend Tribune

Traditional Chamoru culture practiced through art of blacksmithing

Flurries of sparks and intense heat don’t seem to faze the blacksmith apprentices of Lizama’s Forge. Each one looks calm as they focus on their tasks. Sean Lizama, the son of master blacksmith Frank ...