Glenn Posted June 21, 2007 Author Share Posted June 21, 2007 This is a 80# piece of drop from cutting a hole in a steel plate. No one said an anvil has to have the standard anvil shape. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeyboy Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 i'd love to show you my hulking gob of steel but i ai'nt got one.:mad: anybody who has a spare or knows of an anvil for sale or trade please get with me. i live in north missouri. some people pronounce it misery. buzz thanks for the photos and stories. i think i'm gonna go check the local junkyards for an antique heirloom anvil. you never know.:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodge Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 Nice! That reminds me of the thousands of pounds worth of slugs that went into the scrap hopper at my shape cutter job. I did manage to coax a few pieces to follow me home however The attached pic shows my plate anvil that was cut from one such slug. The total weight of the original slug was over 500 pounds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imagedude Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 I fabricate my stands from angle iron: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jmercier Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 These are the three anvils in my shop currently. I had an 80lb vulcan as well which I sold to a beginner at the new england blacksmiths spring meet at the beginning of this month, the same day picked up my current anvil. This is my main anvil, a 150lb peter wrighthttp://www.tharkis.com/images/anvil.jpg this is the anvil which I used before that, an older 125lb peter wrighthttp://www.tharkis.com/images/anvil2.jpg and this is the anvil which my brother gets to use so he doesnt ding my others. A 4140 cuttof with feet welded on it. I need to build a new stump to bolt it to still though.http://www.tharkis.com/images/4140anvil1.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferrous Beuler Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 Very sporting of you to allow your brother to use one of your anvils! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
latvius Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 Since I took this picture I have added a leather strap around the wood base that holds my hammers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted June 22, 2007 Author Share Posted June 22, 2007 Jmercier's Anvil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jmercier Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 hehe, I posted 3 posts above this morning glen =) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted June 22, 2007 Author Share Posted June 22, 2007 I borrowed the your broom, swept the floor, took another picture. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocsMachine Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 140-lb pre-1910 Peter Wright. Aged, badly abused, and severely chipped, but no cracks or large chunks broken off. Stand fabbed from scrap angle, strap iron and some fresh 1" square tubing. Two "cutouts" at the feet for hanging tongs, and four sets of pins to hold four big hammers or six or more medium or small hammers. Doc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Salvati Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 Very sporting of you to allow your brother to use one of your anvils! I agree very sporting indeed!!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jmercier Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 I consider that very generous when I just lost 50% of my workspace for smithing to his new car ! He's using half my garage now for his 1976 Triumph TR6http://www.tharkis.com/images/tr6.jpg He truly is the evil twin, taking over garage space for a car and not for some metal fabrication purpose ! But, he's paying me rent, so it's all good i guess. Time to build an outdoor extension to the garage for more workspace =) That being said, that 75lb 4140 drop works /great/ as an anvil. But i dont mind so much when I hear that sharp 'ping' from a hammer missing the steel and smacking the anvil. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Shepard Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 Here are a few of mine: Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dutchmancreek Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 Not a good pic, but here is my main anvil. It's a 300# Hay Budden. The second pic has my Peter Wright (131#) sitting on top. The forge in the background of the second pic has been replaced by the one you see in the other pic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keykeeper Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 70# Vanadium Steel anvil, 7/8" hardy hole Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pault17 Posted June 23, 2007 Share Posted June 23, 2007 Here are my main bangers. The little one I dug out of a hillside. sorry for the nasty edges, I had to grind them down, unless you want everything looking like re-bar. the big is a russian HF special with diagonal hardie. This is one I gave to a neighbor that was interested and wanted to try out banging iron. Hopefully, someday I will get a nice big one, but till them these will do Oh, I was practicing tapering and ended up with a little black(smith) snake. head needs work, but it scared my daughter and mother in law. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyler Murch Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 The humble Murch's Smithy anvil and Murch's Smithy forged hammer. 185 pounds of 4340 steel. Face is hardened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rthibeau Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 Well, it's not there yet, but a start. 1500 lbs of steel, 39" high, 20" wide, and 6 1/2" thick. I'll be working on it for quite some time to come. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
easilyconfused Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 How's that block's hardness? Any clue as to what steel it is either? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bear Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 If it were any taller would swear that this had to be Herman Munsters headboard!:D Sean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blacksmith Jim Posted June 26, 2007 Share Posted June 26, 2007 Here is mine! And a pic from my "shop". I'm using a 115#ish Peter Wright. The forge is a side blast built by a friend of mine. I had started working on my side blast, and his needed to go into storage, so we helped each other out Only problem was that I need to move it out from under the popup carport to use.. so I put it up on wheels.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted June 26, 2007 Share Posted June 26, 2007 I don't have a good pic loaded but these are my two main anvils. The closer one is a 125lb. Sodorfors Sorcoress #5 and the one showing it's heals is a 202lb. Trenton. The area is the old tarp tent I was using a couple years ago. Most of the stuff is moved into the new shop even though I haven't been able to go back to work on it yet. Frosty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jj2k Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 Here are pics of two of my anvils. The first one is a 176# Trenton manufactured in 1923. The second is a recently acquired 135# Hay Budden Serial # 160135. I don't know anything about the Hay Budden as to when it was made. But it has great rebound and a wonderful ring. I am not using it yet, but I will be. Unless of course I get an insane offer from someone who wants to buy it. I also have a 116# Peter Wright I'll try to get pics and serial #'s on it and post it soon. It's old but I don't know how old. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aerohydro Posted July 8, 2007 Share Posted July 8, 2007 Here's my railway line contraption. It still needs a lot of grinding and perhaps hardfacing. I haven't tried forging on it yet. I felt rather clever building the base like that, it was quick and simple, but I have since discovered that it makes it impossible to move the anvil using a hand trolley. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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