Prior to competing on History Channel’s “Forged in Fire,” a show that pits expert bladesmiths against each other in a sword-making competition, David Mirabile had heard other established knifemakers ...

South Dakota Mines is home to a new Junior Bladesmithing Championship, which is open to high school students across the nation who can produce a blade by hand-hammering or trip-hammer forging. The ...

Aaron Farrar joins us to showcase some of the spectacles for the upcoming sword competition, The Last Blade Standing. He also talked to the contest's first woman competitor.

In this video, we will melt rusty springs into wootz steel. Then we will show the forging of the wakizashi sword. A lot of work was done for this project, we made a bigger crucible than ever before.