‘It’s just me and the fire and the anvil’: In Patagonia and Tempe, blacksmithing is a way of life

The Analogs is stories about people who make things by hand — and what those things tell us about those people.

SAM DINGMAN: On a quiet side street in Tempe, behind a nondescript garage door, in a workshop stuffed with anvils, hammers and steel bars, a white-haired man with a handlebar mustache lights a fire in a forging oven.

He’s wearing suspenders, jeans, work boots and a brace on his wrist…

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