Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bladesmith Nicholas Berkofsky hammers a limited-edition steel knife with a tire press in his East Los Angeles studio. Four weeks ...

Patrick Brennan describes the process of making Damascus steel as ‘magical.’ The knife maker Patrick Brennan welds a piece in his workshop in Ireland. In March, he became a full member of the ...

Blenheim Forge began in the most modest way imaginable: with a homemade brick oven in a garden, powered by a leaf blower. A decade later, founders James Ross-Harris, Jon Warshawsky, and Richard Warner ...

Unwanted pieces of steel, cowhide, deerskin and antlers may not seem like an appealing group of materials. But that’s all Verlin Cossel needs to make finely crafted works of art. Cossel, 64, has lived ...

If you ask a crowd of people how they define art, you’re unlikely to get the same answer twice. Some people see art as a form of self-expression or a state of being. Others see it as a decoration or ...

As a carpenter, David Root has always been interested in hand tools. Originally from Santa Fe, he wanted to move to a smaller rural community and have a product he could sell locally. Root ran across ...

GREENWOOD, S.C. (AP) - When Greenwood drummer Will Thompson isn’t tapping out drum grooves, you might find him in his workshop at home, crafting steel into knives. He has to watch his step around his ...