hdwarner

i made my stands from steel tubing 3inch by 1.5 inch wall thickness .06
with an angle iron frame to capture the anvils base the legs were cut at a 15 degree compound angle
the legs were the tubing and i only used three to prevent rocking
this works real well and is light if you have to move it
NAAMANS FORGE

hello,
when i first became interested in blacksmithing i bough one of those russian anvils from harbour frieght, since then i got a trenton .
anyway i still wanted to use the russian 110 pounder and it was mared and scared pretty good , so i surfaced the top with a milling machine, ground the heck out of the horn to make it more usable .
took it to the heat treaters that we use at my work the heat treaters annealed it first then treated the material like 4140 and heated it then quenched it in oil , now my anvil is 48 rockwell c rather than the 30 it came in
i am happy this things rings well and has good rebound , all for eighty bucks
thought i would share

lathes turn both ways but think of the cutting action on a metal lathe
clockwise or ccwise you want the cutting action to be pushing on the saddle of the lathe , to avoid chatter and instability the same goes for a wood lathe
you want the chisel resting on the guide with the work pushing the chisel downward on to the saddle

take a look at your large drill from the point end and take a small drill and look at the point end, notice how big the chisel is on the big drill compared to
small drill, you can thin these chisel edges on the large drill by thinning the web and grinding more heal clearance behind the cutting edge,
i have drilled 1/2 inch holes in steel with a cordless drill by properly addressing the cutting tool ,
i thin all the webs on my drills , stay away from split point drills however
they cut great at first but are delicate and chip out real fast expesially in handoperated tools
thanks chuck

greetings blacksmiths,
i am new to blacksmithing, only about a year , i went to three beginning balcksmith classes, touchstone, petersvalley and carrol county.
i just recently bought a run in shed for my shop , no floor i filled with crush and run , i have a trenton anvil 150 pounds , an indian chief vise ,
misc tools and tongs .
i bored a hole in my roof of my shed put triple wall flue pipe i aquired at
a farmers market , because i am a cheap blacksmith you know.
just fired the forge today and did some hammering , it was great the overhead hood i made from an industrial light fixture worked perfectly
pyramid shaped and about 2ft by 2 ft square.
no smoke in shop at all .
right now i just make some imperfect hooks and such, mostly i make a lot of clinkers from the coal .
chuck