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My new Edwards shear #5 

took it all apart cleaned and re greased.  Now want to make a short stand for it with two slide stands to hold stock and mount it by the forge.  I have an Edwards 10b bolted by my stock rack that is set to cut max 4' lengths. ( it is set 4' from the wall so touch the wall with stock and it will be sheared at 4'

Prayers and thoughts of strength go out to Jr. Family he is in a greater place that we can all hope to make it to someday.  Cookie will be in touch on memorial.

What you paid for that one is what I paid for my 275lb reflinghaus and it was maid in 2015. You did well the face and edges look like it has never been worked. Have fun with her and don't abuse her by not using her.

Ya I was wondering about that too.  But there were a lot of anvils made in the same area.  Can you tell if it was put in by a previous owner?  It is a descent forged anvil though. Wilkenson and Dudley come to mind.

Sometime after 1910, do to the England stamped on it.

Looks like a mouse hole with the taper under the horn and down the legs

Our thoughts and prayers are with him and his family!!!!  May Gods great will come and bring peace! 

The top is a 50 lb Vulcan.  That is what the 5 is between the feet.

Looks a lot like a mouse hole.

Vises are hard to tell if they are not marked.  A lot of the vises never were marked.  It is an older vise with the wedge style pivot pin.  Nice looking though.  Clean it up a bit and use her well.

The anvil you got is a great little anvil.  I wish I had mine back!! It was probably one of my favorite anvils.  They were made by

Kolshwa in Sweden and imported for centaur forge and farrier supply.   Good chunk of Swedish steel.  

I'm with frosty on a tripod stand.  They are so stable.  If you are putting feet on and bolting it to the floor no worries.  One main bennifit of a tripod is it will stay stable on multiple surfaces.  

Frosty sounds good.  Dibs on the runt of the litter.  I was a runt and turned out good so I tend to go for them.

Benne, anvil looks good now get to using it.  As for your stand you might want to put some feet on it.  

Frosty, let me know when the litter arrives.  If you are getting rid of some.  Or will the offspring be like your own kid and you won t sell any.  

The swage block stand also allows me to put it up on its side and keep it low.

her is my main stand

Our club insurance only covers non members and non member sites.  Like when we demo at a museum.  Agent states if we are members we know the risk.

Make a couple hens for the dodo and really get him thinking.

You could help it to stay by making something to put on top of the stump.

That is what we do to.  Your dodo is good to get the rooster to checking his turf like that.

We keep warm water around to keep chickens laying in the winter.  If we stop no more eggs.  Start again and about a week normal laying.

My thought is brooks but knowing where you are or where you picked it up would help a lot 

Aus I like it!!  Reminds me of the old piece of equipment that got left in the tree row and the plants are starting to grow on it.

very nice piece.

Very nice!!!  Have fun with her.

I think what ever you do will be great.  It is hard to describe what is in your head sometimes so I m glad you could follow.  

I like the vine idea, I would call them roots instead and my thought is no leaves.  I think they may not look right with the rest of the piece.  To forged.  To me would look like filler or to much.  Just my take.  But I do like the thought of using wrought and wrapping around the center pole to the base.  Keep the simplicity and character of the old stock.  You want a good symmetry between base and top.  I think the leaves would brake that up.  But just my thought on it.

Aus I think the top spikes are just right. Not to short and not to long but longer than the coat spikes.  As for the wheel barrel wheel  not what I was expecting.  You could still use as part of the base and take some spikes like on top and draw them out some using the head as the feet and mounting the point about 6"to 8" above the bottom then out over the wheel barrel spokes.  Basicly adding angle brackets for support.