BM454

Nice knife. What's it made of?

Thank you Rich

Yes. Oil quenched then tempered at 400 for one hour two times.

I made this one from an old lawn mower blade someone was going to throw away. The handles are purple heart a friend gave me. It's tempered and holds a great edge. It's not perfect but, I like it.

Fine looking anvil you got there. I'd be safe to say you didn't get hurt on it.

With a 8018 or higher rod you should always preheat the area to be welded. Depending on the materials to be welded and the rods to be used is how hot to preheat. Some materials like AR 200 Nd AR 400 should be preheated to 550 F or more and post heated as well. If I weld either of those metals I use 11018M Rods. 110,000 psi. As far as the ram out of the cylinder goes, I have welded several over the years and always held up well. Just a matter of doing it the right way. I'm going to try to get started back this week on the rebuild. I have classes for the next 3 weeks and I'm also whirring my basement. I have no outlets in it and very few lights. Scott

I really want one of those. I'll settle for my HB though. Very nice anvil.

The 9018 B3H4R is a high chrome rod. We use them to weld boiler tubes and if you get them to hot it will burn the chrome out of the weld (sugar) Tig welding it of course. It does not seem to do it as much when sticking.

I bought this old Wilkinson anvil last year in a scrap yard. There was a big part of it missing as you can see.What I have done is welded the edges ( 1 so far) and pad welded the end where the horn was. The reason I pad welded it is, so the new steel will have something solid to weld to. I know if I start with a good solid base it should help hold. The base metal is wrought of course but, it places it was kinda rotten. I took an angle grinder and dug until I hit good metal. Also back ground the edge of the welds to make sure the weld was taking properly. The best I can tell it worked rather well. I used 9018 B3H4R welding rods on it due to the fact they were free and I have LOTS of them. :) I have a solid shaft of of a rather large hydraulic cylinder I'm going to use for the cutting table and horn. I found the measurements for an anvil the same size and VERY close to the same weight on line so that's going to be my baseline as to what to do. As of now there's about two inches of the face gone, all the cutting table and horn as well. I plan on building it back up with weld to the shape I want and then using stoody to do a final weld on the face plate. This is the anvil when I got it home. Nothing had been done to it. This is somewhat cleaned up and ready to weld. Welded and ready to knock the high spots down and fill in the low spots. I ran out of time last night. And this is what I am going to replace the horn with. It was free as well. Let me know if I an going about it wrong and I'd be more than happy to listen. I'm always open to suggestions. I'll keep you posted as I get time to work on it. I'm going to try to get the horn cut and added tonight. At least tack welded and ready to weld. Also I'm going to bevel the end of the ram before I weld it. Not just going to put it up there and run weld around it. It should be welded solid once I get done with it. Scott

Thank you very much

I have a 100 lb Trenton Anvil. Sweet little anvil just wondering the age if someone would be so kind as to look it up for me. The numbers (best I can tell) are 131055 I know it's 131 and 55 but, the 0 is only half visible. Any help would be appreciated. I'm going to add some pics for your viewing pleasure :) Thank you Scott

I like it. Keep up the good work.

209102 made in 1913

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I like it. I've been wanting to do one something like that but with purple heart for the middle wood.

Looks great!

Not bad at all. The more you hammer the better you will become. I'd advise buying Wayne Goddard's $50 Knife Shop. Some of the best money you can spend if you are interested in making knives. Scott

Clinton is right about the size of the round stock. Being a Boilermaker tube welder I can't say (pipe) LOL. The smaller the weld, the faster you have to move and reposition. Took me many, many welds to get to the point of them looking good. Keep on burning rods and it will come with time. Scott

I'd fix it if it were me......

I've only seen square rebar once. It was in the very bottom of Watts Bar Dam on the Tennessee River a few years back. We went in once they closed the gates to the unit we were working on and jack hammered part of the bottom where it discharged back into the river. I'm guessing it was put there in the late 30's. I know the turbins were set in 1942. They were on top of everything and what we were working on was in the very bottom of the dam. Kinda cool seeing how it was built though. Once you got the concrete off the rebar it looked new. Not a rust spot on it anywhere. We would even find the tie wire used to hold it together. Scott

Here's my $800 truck. 1986 Chevy 4x4 with 4 speed. Low milage truck too. I think it has around 68,000 miles or so on it when I got it.

Free is free and there's tons of things you can do with it. I used it for legs on my gas forge. Just for one. I'd rather have free rebar to beat on than use high quality steel that may go to waste while you are learning. Scott

Nice blade. Really nice for your first one or your tenth blade. Keep up the beautiful work. Scott

Update. I forged the blade and have it tempered shaped. I eteched it and it came out rather nice. I'm going to go with walnut handels with wrought guard and buttplate. The wife seems to like it. I guess that's all that matters on this one beings it's for her. Sorry for the bad pics. The blade has more layers than I wanted but, I kinda made a boo boo. LOL Soooooo I had to fold it once more. To be honest I don't really know how many layers it has. I think it's almost 700 though. I do know it's a very tight pattern.

Or it could be a Hay Budden. Nice anvil either way.