Matthew Paul

Nice work Sir. I bet that was a fun one to do!

Very cool. Use it up and see how it works! 556mp came from me being into ARs years ago, and MP is my initials. I'd change my forum name to Matthew Paul if I knew how. Done, your log in remains the same

beautiful work

Nice work Rhett. It looks great, even more so being your first. Is that a welded bit or solid piece?

NIce work there Kentucky.

Thank you Sir. Do you have any photos of it? My work did not start out that way, and I can still improve a lot. But, practice pays off.

Very nice friend. I like it.

Thank you Jeremy.

Thanks Highsider. I've finished two more since then.

That is very good news. Thank you! Thank you Sir. Interesting. I asked about mine and nobody really knew. Yeah I need to make a proper stand for it still.

That's very nice. Congrats

That is amazing. Absolutely amazing.

Phenomenal. Very inspiring work.

If you search around, I dont have it bookmarked anymore as my old computer broke. But James Austin had a video doing a wrapped eye and showed a nice way to get the inner eye prepped, using a small top fuller, if I recall. I have two sizes that I use, First the large one, then the smaller one to push the last bit of material out to the edge.

I'll have to take a ride on day. You're not too far from me. This one is marked 1918

I wish I knew where this anvil was in its previous lives. I did a little bit of forging on it earlier. Man that 3/16 flat stock moves on this thing :)

Everything and anything that I can. I'm sure that it will be a great help with forging down the stock for the Type D axes that I'm working on. When I first started looking for a larger anvil I was not looking for something of this size, just a 250-300lb, but I came across this one and well, I love fisher anvils. Thank you, I'll take some more once It's all fixed up. It belonged to a gentleman who owned a farm local to me. He recently passed and his wife and care taker on the farm knew that I was interested in it. So they brought it down and we'll work out a deal. Thank you Sir!

I just picked up this puppy. Overall it is in very nice shape, minus the edges being tore up from someone torch cutting on top of the anvil. he hardy hole is a little buggered up but it's nothing that cant be fixed. Ive been after this one for a long time and I finally got it. That's a ~150# fisher on the floor in front of it. Once I get the repairs finished I'll be making a nice stand for it. Thanks for having a look. Matt P. >

Before I stated forging any wrapped eye axes, I purcahsed a couple lenghts of 1/2" x 1" stock and just focused on the eye. I formed and werapped/welded many eyes before I ever started on an axe. Do you have any info or phtots of the steps where you are wrapping, prep for your weld, etc? I found that, for me anyway. having a clean sharp edge on both corners at the location of the weld, on the front of the eye, and a nice clean surface tends to help get both a cleaner looking and quality weld on the eye. I started clamping the "axe" in the post vice, while still flat, and using a hand fuller to really square up those edges before I wrap the steel. Although I do things a bit differently now as far as the scarf cleanlines of the corners and location of fullers, here is a photo of the first axe that I did, pre weld, to get a bit of an idea -- if it helps any.

Good work. I like that from what I can see in the photo.

Very cool man