OLDENBURG - No map was needed to find this Fayette County ghost town, nestled on an obscure back road between the easily missed hamlets of Warrenton and Rutersville. All anyone had to do was follow ...

The set-up looks old-school – a furnace, anvil and two blacksmiths hammering in tandem to coax a hot steel rod into a pair of tongs. But for Adam’s Forge in Los Angeles’ Glassell Park neighborhood, ...

Alder Hardt pulled a glowing yellow rod from his forge, laid it on an anvil and hammered a U-shaped bend into one end. When the steel rod was cool, Hardt reheated it, then clamped it in a vise.

In this blacksmithing project, I set out to build an oil fired forge and share the key moments of the process. The video shows the construction stages, from design to assembly, giving an inside look ...