[NateDJ]

Here is a look at what I have so-far:

The Anvil is made of forklift forks, I have no idea what it weighs but I can barely roll it over and in no way can i lift the thing. I do have a chain hoist I use to move it and even roll it over to work on it.

I had a little trouble with the Hardy hole, had a 1" round hole and with lots of advice from people on this site I tried several different things and finally settled on welding in a square tube and it now has a 1/2" hardy hole. If I find that is not large enough I can re drill it and put in a larger square tube I guess.

I left the eye on the fork to be used as additional tooling, if I find it gets in the way I will simply remove it.

The horn is still quite unfinished but I have already found it to be a little thin, will vibrate like crazy when hammering on it. It also needs the bottom cleaned up and rounded over as well as about 1/2 of the top will get rounded over. I think I will leave the back half of the horn square faced though as I have found it works nice for small stuff when I want to draw out something very small like a nail.

This anvil rings like a huge bell and almost hurts my ears and the rebound is good, especially if I am using my 2.5# hammer and hitting hard. Will have to develop some bounce control as I almost hit my self in the head last night from the bounce. No idea if that is good or bad but it is what I have so-far.

I have also included a picture of some of the things I have made my wife while learning how to make things, as well as a picture of the hardy tools I have made so-far.

I still have to get some steel for the feet of it so I can mount it to a good stand. I am going to build a 3 legged stand for it as has been suggested by many on this site.

Would be very interested in hearing your comments as to how you think this anvil will work for the long hall, I am likely to not get another anvil unless it is almost free as I hope to use this one. What changes would you make if it were yours and why would you make those changes? What additions should I make to it? Should I make a shelf on it? should I drill a pritchel hole, and if so what size should I drill it to?