The truth is I've always been a bit rubbish at making things with my hands. I was tarred with the useless brush as early as primary school, in an art class where we were supposed to make a ...

This blacksmithing project focuses on tool making -specifically, forging a drift designed to form the eye of an axe. Although I’ve never made an axe before, I wanted to test the process and create ...

Forging an axe from a railroad spike, showing the shaping, heat treatment, and finishing process using traditional ...