new anvil.....sort of
I'm pretty new here, and new to the craft. I started to put together my set up and I'm getting it together bit by bit I got a i inch thick steel plate last week 7 x 7 inches square, I'm cutting a 1...
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good one... forgot bout the hammerheads... I think using an improvised anvil is a right of passage... very few are lucky enough to start out with a big steel.... - it'll make you hungry for morehow i...
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thanks for the suggestions folks, great to have encouragment.dean
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Blacksmith's tend to suffer from "anvil envy"; but sad to say my little 91# "travel" anvil has seen a lot more hours of me hammering on it than the 515# one in the shop as I get to hammer all day on...
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130lbs is the weight of my primary anvil. Nothing wrong with makeshift, shows ambition and ingenuity. Keep in mind, anvils used to be comprised of roughly 80 lb semi-square chunks of iron, never mind...
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I was helping a friend clean out a garage full of good stuff last March when I walked by an anvil already mounted on a good log. You can just imagine what is going through my head......I kinda want...
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Long time no see fellas,I have found that ringing anvils are good for demos, but get loud and annoying after hours of work by yourself... Donald
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Rebound is what you want and there are several brands that have it and *not* the ring, (Fisher and Vulcan for example), but if it's a brand that *should* ring and doesn't that's a warning sign of bad...
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The anvil that I wrote about Has the word Trenton cast into it on the inside of a diamond. Below that it has the words "Solid Wrought" cast into it in a circle, solid above wrought. The number 122...
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You got a bargain! You usually only run into a deal like that once in a lifetime.... Trentons are good anvils!Randy
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A good deal, and a cracked anvil. a trenton is a forged wrought body anvil with a steel face. it should ring like a bell. either the face has started to unweld, or the body is cracked.Don't let that...
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Thanks for the info., guys. I haven't forged much, yet but hope to in the near future. My Dad has an old cast iron (steel?) forge with a hand crank blower. Used to work really well. I just have to get...
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Lucky Dog!!!!!! Great find, I also have a Trenton that I got from my brother, it was so rusted you couldn't tell what it was. I cleaned it up and called him back and told him what it was and now he...
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I went out today and looked it over. There is a longitudinal hole through the neck (from casting?), but I couldn't find any cracks in the body. So with some light hits, I found that the horn and the...
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Longitudinal hole? I think you're seeing th handling holes, which should be square, and about 1.5 times as deep as they are wide. these anvils where forged, not cast, so there shouldn't be any casting...
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Okay, I'm an idiot. I forgot you had already told me it was forged. I looked it over again (more closely this time)and there doesn't appear to be a crack in it. The face rebounds quite well. What's...
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for a 122 pound trenton, the best way would be to use it gently untill you can afford another one, it would be less work to fabricate a new anvil than it would to repair one properly with a de-welded...
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get some 110,000 psi tensile strength rod and weld it the way you'd expect. As a boil.ermaker, you've got the skills. There are three ways to fix a delaminating face:1. Prep the cracks and weld,...
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My first thought was that I could arc gouge the bad part of the face away, clean it up, then weld it back upto level with the remaining face (a little above). Then grind it flat. Now as for 110,000...
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