Sam Salvati Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 Seen a couple folks make these up now, here's mine. 2" by 8" by 16", angle ramp/butcher shoulder, heavy radius then 2 decreasing size radii then a flat. It's just mild steel, I peened the flat face and it seemed to get noticeably yet slightly better rebound. gonna make a 3 leg stand that can set screw hold the anvil upright, on it's side for a long flat surface, or on it's long side for a big wide long flat surface. I will add some more shapes, some little cup/dents for dishing, also will add an L shape hardy hole, and other shapes as needed. makeshift work rest it's around 72 pounds, which is easily moveable, flippable. I think of it not really as an anvil, but as a swage block that can be forged on. More shapes and additions to come. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Lake Forge Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 really nice work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Salvati Posted July 21, 2012 Author Share Posted July 21, 2012 thanks man. This is a REALLY nice alternative if someone doesn't have an anvil, took me an hour to grind the shapes, could just use the big block too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuarthesmith Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 nice, for an improv anvil........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob S Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 Sam, There are some interesting ideas for this type of anvil over here...Link removed at the request of Anvilfire. I think this kind of anvil is way more useful than a 'london pattern'. Good job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Salvati Posted July 21, 2012 Author Share Posted July 21, 2012 Thanks Bob. The idea for block-o-steel type anvils has been around for a long time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Einhorn Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 ......it's around 72 pounds, which is easily moveable, flippable. I think of it not really as an anvil, but as a swage block that can be forged on. .... Very nice. .... Have you considered mounting it on pivot pins? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petere76 Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 Sam....excellent use of scrap material. Peter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustinJ1982 Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 Did you buy that at a scrap yard or new? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iron woodrow Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 love the "apron" or were you in the middle of a roast dinner (with no napkins... :) ?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Salvati Posted July 22, 2012 Author Share Posted July 22, 2012 thanks everyone! Dave what do you mean pivot pins? Iron Woody wish I was in the middle of a roast dinner :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 The "block" anvil has been around for 10 *times* longer than the london pattern. Which is improv again? I have a small block anvil much like the one in the Roman museum in Bath UK, or the one shown on the Norse Stave Church, or the ones shown in the hausbuchs, or the one in the Camino Real museum here in NM, or the one used in the French and Indian war. I'll be using it as part of a Y1K setup during a week long campout around Labour day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob S Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 I have a small block anvil much like the one..... got pictures? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 Steve Parker forged it for me using pretty heavy powerhammers. It is basically a 4.5" cube slightly tapered in the vertical dimension so the top overhangs the base *slightly*. He then forged a spike out of the base, weighs about 25 pounds and was heat treated 4340 IIRC. Mine doesn't have the lovely mushrooming of the museum examples---yet. Steve has made more including some fancier ones---more than 4 sides and heavier ones too. He's one of the demigods of using large powerhammers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Salvati Posted July 23, 2012 Author Share Posted July 23, 2012 Justin I got it for scrap. Thomas you need to hurry up and join the 20th century and get a camera. What I mean is, I wish there had been the modern examples now of block anvils when I started, I would have gotten going alot sooner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 On the other hand what about all the folks hanging back because they don't have a anvil like the "pro's do"? Pictures can impede as well as help. Philosophically I known many a person who gets stuck behind a camera documenting rather than focusing on doing---look at all the parents filming their kids first steps rather than being on their knees encouraging them and catching them. About twenty years ago I went to a big SCA event that was making a big thing about it being the 20th anniversary of that event and the merchants were full of "commemorative items" none of them medieval or Renaissance. I decided that I would *make* something and stamp it with the commemorative year and so have something to remember it by that I could use in a medieval/renaissance context. I'm still doing that till this day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sask Mark Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 Visible evidence greatly supports your credibility. It takes 30 seconds to take a picture. You have over 11,000 posts so I would imagine you have plenty of time to upload your pictures. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 Frankly Scarlatti I don't care about my credibility; you are free to discount my posts or even ignore them. I've seen tons of examples on the net where people have copied other peoples pictures and presented them as their own so pictures don't tie to credibility for me. Some people are picture oriented others are not. I don't consider one better than another. HOWEVER when I post from my slow dial up connection at my rural New Mexico location pictures are a pain making most forums unusable for me. I tend to remember this even when I am in town on a University set up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sask Mark Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 :rolleyes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iron woodrow Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 can i smell a hijacked thread? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beth Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 that looks great sam very versatile and handy - i reckon you ground that pretty quick.! and i too am very pleased with your newspaper bib:) in terms of the thread hijack i personally LOVE to see a picture, because we dont have to be there to appreciate what a member is talking about - one of the beautys of the forum. i like the detail of sam always puts a pack of smokes for scale :) and i think i see your indulging in those "healthy" american spirits sam? i like the social detail :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob S Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 Pictures can impede as well as help. good idea less is more.... new rule no pictures. ha! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Salvati Posted July 27, 2012 Author Share Posted July 27, 2012 LOL Thomas, the greatest smith no one on the internet will ever know LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whirly Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 Yup, think you just pegged it Sam. Was going to wade into the BS, but thought better of it. <_< Anyhow, I'm glad YOU posted pictures of what you've done. Thanks. I have a slab of 2" sitting in the shed I was going to use to build up an anvil, but maybe I'll hack a lump off it and go down this road. Like the Anvil/Swage idea. I too like your 'safety' bib....and power tools while standing on a wet surface?, yep, a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iron woodrow Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 i feel your pain with the wet dirt floor..... it is a test of endurance a lot of these hoity toity, concrete floor and walls, safety boot wearing, metal smackers, will never pass. it is like the modern smiths initiation into the primitive past. i will raise my warm beer fresh from the carton to you now sam, and may you never get tetanus! :P did my first pattern welded blade two days back. safety gear included....shorts. i didnt want to scare the children..... or singe my parts closest to the molten flux extrusion! :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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