![]() What I found is I positively love this tool and do not feel out of control with it. But, I needed the larger blade diameter to degate some of my castings. Should keep me in hobby projects for a while!Ĭlick to expand.Yes, I had some misgivings about the larger tool as well. I think the new furnace will work just fine as a forge if I turn it on its side, or else I do still have enough materials left over to build a dedicated forge if I decide I want ("need") one. So after that happens, I might just even have something like the first clue what to do with this thing! Should be fun. The local blacksmith I recently helped with a copper casting project has given me a coupon code for his website that's good to sign me up for one of his one day classes for free, those are mostly blade making classes which do sound fun, but I'm really just hoping to learn some basic techniques and skills so I can go back home and figure out how to forge whatever I want. I'm quite happy to have this, been keeping my eyes out for one of these for several years now, and I'm glad I was patient - you can NOT beat the price I got this thing for! Maybe I'll try that sometime down the line, but I'll probably hold off on that for a while and see what I can do with it as-is first. It also has marker lines drawn on it for where its last owner was thinking about cutting bits off to form a horn of sorts. It has holes for mounting which you can see in the pic, and if you look close, there's also a couple of larger holes in the vertical section that should be handy for bending or straightening stuff I guess. Now I've really seen it all!Īnyhow, I sort of have an anvil now! Should be handy, and good for some fun times - making tools for the foundry, venting my frustrations, etc. It wasn't even near anyone's yard or farm as far as I could tell, this was apparently some sort of a feral ditch peafowl. How weird is that?! I'd expect just about any other animal before that (dodged or braked for several on the way home, in fact). I almost ran over a peacock on the back roads getting there. Who knows, maybe one day I will meet Paul and we can reunite the ends of our anvils, just like halves of a broken heart shaped locket in a cheesy romance movie, except with far fewer hugs and kisses and crying, and way more smashing stuff with hammers. This is actually the other half of the same piece of rail that he gave YouTuber Paul from Paul's Garage a while back (I met him in the metal working section of Paul's chat server on Discord, where I sometimes go to shoot the BS with like minded pyros and internet weirdos when work is slow and there's no new posts here or on AA). ![]() He drives a truck for a living and was on his way to Texas from New Brunswick yesterday, and the timing worked out just right to meet up and chat for an hour or so in the parking lot. It's about 50# or so, I guessĭid the 50 minute trek to a truck stop in Cornwall (Ontario) to meet a guy who just bought himself a real anvil and was willing to part with this, his old one. ![]() It annoys my kid cuz her shiny anvil gets dirty, but she puts up with it so I don't banish her from the shop.Heres the new "anvil". Well, I find that it works a treat as an upsetting block if I put it on the floor of the shop. old daughter after cleaning it up of course. My mother bought one for me at a garage sale a few months back after I told her to grab any anvil she saw if it were under $20 and call me if she found any that were more. Should end up looking a bit like a sawyer's anvil when I am done.Īnd, RR track makes a fine anvil for an oddiment of jobs. As in my other thread, I am considering building an anvil like that from a block of mild with a face welded to it. A small block like that lets us work either edge of a double edge blade with a minimum of effort. The reason alot of us bladesmiths are using blocks like that is because we don't have alot of use for an anvil horn or hardy hole. Why should you use new stock for strikers? Been smithing over 30 years now and I don't recall *anybody* ever using new stock for strikers-old files and hay rake tines seem to be favorites. ![]() Mass under the hammer is what you generally look for so a block of steel works better than a bar-unless you set the bar vertically-some of the knifemakers are using vertical 4-6" Sq stock as anvils nowadays. RR rail makes an OK anvil for light work.
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