Blacksmith Anvil for Sale

Blacksmith's love for trade forged at grandfather's anvil

“I don’t have to worry about any of that when I step up to that anvil. All my cares and worries go away.”

And Matthews, 49, has been stepping up to the anvil for a lot of years. From the age of 6, he started helping his grandfather, a fourth-generation blacksmith with a shop in the small town of Ola, Idaho.

Matthews recalls first being assigned to make sure his grandfather’s cooling bucket was full of water and that the forge was loaded with coal for the next day’s dawn-to-dusk work. In succeeding summers, he advanced to making nails and nuts and bolts before eventually being trained to complete a full range of metal work.

His grandfather kept active as a blacksmith until he died in the 1970s, which cut short Matthews’ training in his youth. Like his father had, Matthews decided that the need for blacksmithing had declined enough that it was not a viable career for him. When he looks over the machinery in modern metal shops, he just doesn’t feel the same connection that he does to a hand-blown forge and red-hot coals. Instead, he moved to Yakima and became a carpenter, a skill also required in his grandfather’s multifaceted work.

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