Christopher Daniel’s Blue Hell Studio doesn’t look like the medieval blacksmithing shops of yore. But at this Roselawn warehouse, you’ll still find anvils, quenching barrels, and all the well-worn tools of the trade that have kept this ancient art alive and well—and stunningly popular. Hundreds of students come through the studio each year to prove it. The longtime sculptor and former Hasbro toymaker fell into blacksmithing somewhat by accident—out of boredom, really—when he was running the metal shop at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. “Nobody ever came down to use the metal shop,” Daniel says ..read more