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My first anvil any guess on brand


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I can't help you with an ID but it looks to be a perfectly serviceable anvil and not a bad price. Congratulations now heat some steel and put her to work. She'll be much happier with a job and it'll keep her from causing mischief.

 

Frosty The Lucky.

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I"m happy, as long as it doesn't say Harbor Freight. Might try rubbing flour on it to see if more letters come out. Going to work on a Froe this weekend. Tried last weekend,  was having a problem with making the eye. Should be easier with a horn and 130 more pounds under my hammer blows.  Found a good demo on anvilfire for a froe. 

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Try  an oblique angle on the light when you shoot the pics. Camera flashes are aimed directly at the subject so it's reflected directly back and there are no shadows. Light coming in from one side at a shallow angle will cause shadows behind any surface feature. If you really want detail, leave the camera on a tripod and shoot one exposure from one angle and the double exposure with the light at the opposite angle. This is how the really detailed photos of the moon are shot you just have to shoot the second exposure about two weeks later.

 

Flour or chalk rubbed in and wiped off works well but different techniques will yield different results some better than others. Depends on more variables than I want to ramble about.

 

Frosty The Lucky.

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