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True prices for anvils.
This is a discussion on True prices for anvils. within the Blacksmithin' forums, part of the Blacksmithing category; Let us cut through all the hype and provide some hard numbers on anvil prices. You know what you paid ...
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04-15-2008, 12:51 PM
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 True prices for anvils.
Let us cut through all the hype and provide some hard numbers on anvil prices. You know what you paid for YOUR anvil, help us build a data base. Please list the following information Brand (if available) Weight Condition (Photo if it is available) Price paid and year Location and other details if you wish. As the number of anvils posted increases, so will the data base. No more smoke and mirrors, no more hype, just REAL numbers.
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04-15-2008, 12:55 PM
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 A Vulcan, a Fisher, and the third anvil unknown. Brand see photo Weight marked 1-2-12 = 180 and weighed 178# Condition see photo Price $200 in May 2007, WV, USA Hammer in
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04-15-2008, 12:58 PM
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 Brand scrap Weight 75# Condition see photo Price $0.00 Free 2005, Steel Yard drop from cutting a hole in plate steel
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04-15-2008, 02:05 PM
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Brand, Henry Wright Weight, 169 pounds Condition, when i got it, badly chipped around the sides and had a swayback , see photo , PICT0036 - Blacksmith Photo Gallery ,  after repairing, good as new, see attached photo Price 120$ with stump |
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04-15-2008, 02:27 PM
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HB 126# excellent $111 2002 Vulcan 100# good free 2005 homemade 100# excellent free 2000 There have been about 10-12 in there also over the last8 yrs. I keep upgrading. They have ranged from 100# to 475#. I just sold an excellent 166# Fisher last week for $400 |
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04-15-2008, 03:31 PM
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Brand: Harbor Freight Cast steel Weight: 110Lbs. Price: $70 (on sale) Condition: New Year: 2007 |
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04-15-2008, 04:30 PM
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Brand: Trenton Weight:126 Price: $125 (He "couldn't go any lower than $1.00/lb) condition, Sides were painted silver, top excellent, edge 2 small chips that ground out to a nice radius. year 2000 I also bought a buffalo blower ($35) frozen, that took about two weeks of soak to free. A 4" vise of unknown ancestry ($35) working and complete. ugly orange paint. A 2 ft by 3 ft cast iron railroad forge ($125) with a pump handle blower. Missing the wooden handle, belts and a blower that did not operate because of its furry occupants. Two hours to restore. All in one stop at a garage sale. Luck of the Irish. I paid him his asking price on all of the tools and I think he thought he slicked a city kid.
__________________ Iron... the other thermal plastic "He was the kind of a guy that could screw up an anvil with a tack hammer" Last edited by habu68; 04-15-2008 at 04:32 PM. |
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04-15-2008, 04:54 PM
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Type: CNC cut from 4" mild plate Weight: 150# approx Price: 15 cents a pound in 2006 + a job as a CNC operator or friend with job as CNC operator willing to risk job  The horn was roughed with O/A torch and finished with a flap wheel. No, it has no hard face and no hardy hole. Yes, those feet are just tack welded. That and the lack of a hardy make it a (another) work in progress and yes it works GREAT for the price!
__________________ While never issued evenly, common sense should always be deployed uniformly. Semper Fi! Its not just for breakfast anymore!! Last edited by Dodge; 04-15-2008 at 04:58 PM. |
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04-15-2008, 04:59 PM
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Here's the ones I pretty much kept hold of; but I have owned and sold on a number more When I live in OH (1989-2004) I generally found a name brand anvil in good to great shape every year for less than a dollar a pound. Note: *ALL* of these get used on a regular basis! Brand: Arm and Hammer Weight: 91 pounds Condition: good using condition Price paid and year: 1983, traded damaged 25# LG triphammer for it My travel anvil. Springdale AR Brand: Hey-Budden Weight: 138 pounds Condition: excellant Price paid and year: US$125 1998? Auction of an HVAC co with nothing for antique dealers or yuppies. Lancaster OH Brand: Peter Wright Weight: 163 pounds Condition: excellant Price paid and year: US$100 1984 Yard Sale, Fayetteville AR Brand: Trenton Weight: 407 pounds Condition: ravaged by weldors at a copper mine Price paid and year: traded smaller anvil, (Peter Wright, 125#, $125, decent condition 1995, saw a large old postvise leaning against a barn while doing a test drive on a car, returned and bought vise and anvil from owner 1997) + a postvise screw and screwbox I had US$5 in. Invested US$70 in repair fees a couple of months ago. Fellow wanted a smaller anvil. I obliged. 1997? Columbus OH Brand: Fisher Weight: 515 pounds Condition: excellant Price paid and year: US$350 1999 Columbus OH, uncle of a fellow I talked to at a fleamarket Brand: Paragon? Sweedish Weight: 63 pounds Condition: Excellant Price paid and year: US$0 2007 Ex-Rancher from my church who heard I was hunting one for the local College fine arts metals program. Oh yeah; I bought a 55# HF cast iron ASO for US$28 around Y2k, the MOB made it into a propane stove; boy that cast iron drilled like butter!
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