Contest - Design an anvil stand

[Glenn]

Background:
There was a question in the chat room last night about building a light weight, but sturdy, well balanced anvil stand. With 8-10 blacksmiths present.....well....ideas were posted faster than you could take notes. Blacksmiths enjoy a good challange. <grin>


The Contest - Design an anvil stand:
So, for the next 87 days (contest entries have to be in by December 31, 2007) the challange is to design and build an anvil stand.

* The anvil stand MUST be stable and not tip over under normal use.

*Construction materials are of your choice, concrete, wood, steel, whatever, but should be accessable to others.

*The design should incorporate a way to (easily) change the working height of the anvil so it can be used by different blacksmiths or strikers.

* All entries should provide a list of materials, dimensions, and any additional information that is necessary or available so a person can build that stand. Shop drawings are fine. Photos are encouraged.

*It is expected that the design will be anvil specific and adjustments will need to be made by the builder for different size and weight anvils the builder will use. One design does not have to fit all anvils.

* This does not have to be a new design, if you have the perfect anvil stand already, show us how you built it.

* If you use an idea from somewhere, please give credit as to who and where that idea came from. (If you don't recall, that ok too.)

* Multiple entries are encouraged, but one design per entry. One design with varitions on a theme is still one design. Three different designs should be three different entries.

* Two or more blacksmiths working on one design is acceptable and encouraged as long credit is given to everyone.

* All entries may be used on the I Forge Iron site and for any site purposes, including blueprints.

For now, post your entries right here as a reply to this thread. Photos should be "attached" to the post or posted in the I Forge Iron Gallery and then the Gallery URL used in the forum.

Get creative, use up some of that scrap you have in storage, and design the anvil stand that will become a classic. Depending on the entries, we may have to divide this into catagories, such as portable stands and stationary stands. We could give extra points for simplist design, most creative design, ugliest, or whatever. We are open for suggestions. Post them here or contact me directly.

The idea is to have some fun with this. I can even see a anvil stand incorporating multiple suggestions. Progress reports and open discussions are encouraged. Enter early and often.

[Glenn]

Both drawing and a physical stand would be best. That way we know the drawings work <grin>.

If we get several offers for just design drawings, I may ask someone to build the stand if their interested, or may just make a drawings only catagory.

Keep the questions coming so we can better define the rules.

[Nick]

Are schematics acceptable, or does it have to be a physical stand? I've got a good stand for my Budden, but I wouldn't mind taking a shot at designing an adjustable height stand.

[yesteryearforge]

Glenn
I have a hard time building anything light weight / sturdy is no problem.
I have several variations of anvil stands ( no stumps )
I havent built an adjustable stand yet though ( I think the range of adjustment would be to great ) Im 6' 6" so I require a rather tall stand to begin with.
Can I use some photos from the gallery or do they need to be new photos ?
Mike

[Glenn]

Photograph the existing stands (or use photos already taken) and then add text and /or drawings to complete the package. The idea is to make a variety of stands, with construction details, available to everyone. This way the end user can choose what would work best for them in their situation.


Let's split the anvil stands into the following catagories:

* Light - intended for traveling, demos etc
* Medium - intended for either traveling or use in one location
* Heavy - intended to stay in one location and generally not to travel.

[rthibeau]

So what category does an All-In-One specialty fall in to? We need an "Open" or "Specialty" class for us.....umm.....less than conventional innovators.

[rthibeau]

As an example of what I'm referring to: adjustable, portable, weight depends on the anvil sitting on it

[Tyler Murch]

Dude, looks like you got the fork lift fork bent...hellacious.

You shop color is purple. roflmao :>)

[ApprenticeMan]

Heavy pounding would get that thing a hopping. And with the wheels it would be all over.

[easilyconfused]

It looks like the wheels are removable apprenticeman.