This blacksmithing experiment explores how steel behaves when its movement is restricted. Using a closed die setup, the ...

Stock displacement is so '80s. The days of miniscule and primitive displacement gains through offset crank grinding are a more distant memory than Fritz Mondale's presidential campaign. Due to the ...

One of our tipsters sent in a great video showing how to make knives out of old broken drill bits. It comes from [The Art of Weapons] YouTube channel which is run by a 15 year old from the UK. He’s ...

This section of the industry may be classified as jobbing with quantities generally small varying from one off to perhaps 100 off. Tooling for producing open die work may consist of flat or shaped ...

In this video, a solid steel baseball bat weighing approximately 4kg is forged from a rusted chain. The process involves the use of a new 40kg hammer and the creation of six different dies.

First, welding began to replace riveting in ship-and plane-building (TIME. Dec. 15). Now cast steel is replacing forged steel, and in tanks it is replacing both riveted and welded armor plate.

Parts of forged-steel works-in-progress in the sculptor John Crawford’s Brooklyn studio, May 2015 (photo by the author for Hyperallergic) For artists, is there anything more to do or to say with the ...

One of our tipsters sent in a great video showing how to make knives out of old broken drill bits. It comes from [The Art of Weapons] YouTube channel which is run by a 15 year old from the UK. He’s ...