When Jack Wert first tried blacksmithing as a boy, his reason was simple. “I wanted to make stuff,” said Wert of Sinking Spring. Now 19, Wert has five years experience in the trade and has made both ...
Amid the pangs of metal on metal and the heat radiating from forges, members of the Willamette Valley Blacksmiths Club chat amongst themselves as they wait for their turn at the anvil. The club ...