It can be a very loud place.
Maynard Studios a few miles from Lawrenceburg are six-thousand square feet full of worktables, stacks of steel, anvils, a machine shop, and heavy blacksmith equipment like two-century old power hammers.
51-year-old Matt Maynard uses a hoist to hold a steel rod that is nearly four feet long. The end of the rod is red hot, about 2000 degrees. Matt guides the steel tip under one of the power hammers, and it slams into the hot end so he can shape it.
