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They make dandy triangular dinner bells, just don't quench the bend while its orange or when you try to ring it, you breaky it. LOL

Those are known as Bridge Anvils, nice design on that one.

Hey Spikey, you should have made a guillotine tool and just added a V Groove die to it. That's the nice thing about Guillotine tools, simple dies are quick and easy to make.

from the Book, Anvils in America, Ur's is an 1894 model.

HB is 1900

Almost John B. Read Caption #17 at bottom right corner for a description

I agree with Unicorn. Before bolts, nuts and nails became a commonly manufactured product. The apprentices in the shops made nails from old horseshoes to learn how to draw and head. Any spare time the smiths had was spent making bolts, nuts and rivets to replentish their small supply on hand.

Well here goes, not sure this one applies as its home made and foot powered. LOL

Wrought Iron Tires were usually made from the poorest grade of Wrought (it wasn't hammer refined) as this was a costly and time consuming process. In the past I have used a lot of Wrought tire iron to repair old Woodworking Tools for others, because if you use material similar to what the tool is made of and forge weld it, like would have been done in its day. It does not take away any of the tool value. One thing I have found, is that if you bring it to a nice Orange color and work it from both sides under a power hammer lightly, it refines it somewhat and you can do with it what you want. Just DON'T bring it up to Welding heat and hit it hard as it will more or less explode. And don't work Wrought when its too cold or it will split on you. If you have never worked Wrought before, you will be surprised at how soft and easily it works when its at an Orange or a little hotter. Enjoy

don't be like this guy, Anvils

If bending the Hard way on edge, use a Cheese Fuller or the round face of a farriers turning hammer and a small section of pipe in the hardy hole of your anvil and gradually work the bend. Or if the Easy way on the flat, tack weld a short section of flat strap with the desired curve and a stop piece, and just pull it around carefully using a bending fork if necessary to help.

find a machine shop, they saw brass shapes and also machine brass, if they are penny pinchers like me, they will keep the brass shavings seperate from their steel shavings to sell. In fact I have a small cardboard box full of brass shavings, email me or PM me with an address and I will send you some.

I reworked the pics a bit, hope you don't mind!

I don't have one like yours, yours is a Stearn's #3, I have a Bonney that shows the cutting blade clearly, just a piece of old two man saw blade will make a fine blade. put the Cannell in. These are also referred to as Hollow Augers too.

Its mostly a wheelwright tool but can be used for other things too, first you use a spoke pointer to put a taper on the end of a wheel spoke, then having preset the tenon cutter, you put it in a brace and it cuts a round smaller tenon on the end of the spoke to fit into the felloe or "felly" (a segment of the outside of a wagon wheel).

nice adjustable tenon cutter in picture 5

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If you look closely you can see various slitters in my rack.

I start with a hand held slitter made of oil well sucker rod with a rounded chisel sharpened end. then switch to the rodded one on the right also made of sucker rod. after using it on both sides of the eye, I use the one on the left shown here for small eyes, and the one in the middle of the second picture for larger eyes, made of 1045 PTO shaft.

I have a friend who has an OLD wagon wheel with the dish up for a dining room table, He had a piece of plate glass cut a bit larger than the outside tire and a hole cut in the middle for the hub to stick through, it uses a part of a real axle with the skein on it for a center post to support it.

I think this is what Glenn was talking about, it uses a 10 ton Porta Power cylinder, but its not fast enough to weld with. Its made of 4 inch channel iron and 3/8 by 2 inch flat iron with 1/2 inch cold rolled pins, I keep it on my service truck for those small press jobs. Even this one is too slow to weld with, because of the large Cylinders and Low GPM and high pressure of the pump. 3000 rpm, 3000 psi, 3 gpm. 72 ton on 8 inch cylinder, 50 ton on 7 inch cylinder, its capable of over a 100 ton, but the table pins are not.

SLOW, means the dies are in contact with the hot metal too long and sucks the heat out quickly, hand operated presses will not work for welding unless you want to take a new heat for each stroke of the press. FAST down and up is needed.