Instructor Bob Hungerman, left, looks on a Chris Wharton of Baltimore works on shaping a piece of metal with a cross peen hammer during a Blacksmith 101 course, offered by The Blacksmith Guild of ...

Kent Knapp started blacksmithing at the age of 19. He apprenticed under a master blacksmith for a few years, but then moved to New Orleans with his wife and children, where he was unable to find a ...