Black Forest ArtWorks

Please join my family and myself at the next Market Fair at Claude Moore Colonial Farm on July 16 and 17. This is a great event for adults ...

I made some scroll candlesticks for a friend from Claude Moore recently and he sent me a shot of them on his dining room table next to a tre...

I recently got an unexpected phone call from Mount Vernon to discuss "blacksmithing". Anyone who knows me know that I am always mo...

It was an exhausting, but good, demonstration this weekend in Manassas. 30,000 people were expected and although we don't know the final...

I usually demonstrate with a wonderful, but borrowed, set-up at the Claude Moore Market Fairs.  I took quite a bit of time early on to help ...

I was greeted a Market Fair this year by a few familiar faces, who came with photos and measurements for items they wanted me to make for th...

We had a wonderful weekend at Market Fair -- I did a lot of fun blacksmithing and my wife interpreted right alongside me.   We were so pleas...

Even as we were loading the cars with all sorts of tools, colonial-style clothing, and everything else needed for tomorrow's Market Fair...

With a covering of mud, clay, sand, lime and dung over the bricks (and plans to put another layer of the same materials, plus some straw, on...

Jeff Dunkelberger started blacksmithing after catching the bug in early 2008.  The idea of having his own forge came in time and now  B...

Perhaps, we should bake some cookies for the delivery person since this package couldn't have been easy or pleasant to bring to our fron...

I have been busily working on items for the quickly approaching May Market Fair.  I finally completed a new candlestick mast for a great cus...

Jeff has been working to build a new forge at Claude Moore Colonial Farm, where he blacksmiths during their Market Fairs three times a year....