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Teenager shunned university to become traditional blacksmith at 19

A 21-year-old who shunned university to forge a career as a traditional blacksmith while he was still a teenager is hoping to inspire more young people into the ancient trade. Jay Cardall took up the ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Blacksmith preserves tradition, competes on TV show

FAWN GROVE, Pa.FAWN GROVE, Pa. — 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Missoulian

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

And while he uses the traditional blacksmithing method of fastening steel pieces together with hand-made rivets, and can make welds with the forge, he'll sometimes opt to use his electric welder for a ...