Mende

I like the tongs :D

The other models seem to be sitting on four feet and I dont understand why you would take the main mass of an anvil and put it up on small feet ( it seems that would defeat the purpose of designing an anvil with all of that mass in the body )

I think it's inspired from old Spanish pattern anvils ..that would fit on the stump like the cap on a soda bottle. ..
If you look at Vulcan's main anvil in this painting . ..you would see where Nimba where inspired from.
One could defeat this problem with some fancy chisel work on the stump ..so the anvil fits well on it and don;t only rests on the legs. .

Skinned, with an anvil?

I guess that after the anvil is hot enough just rubbing one's skin against it would make the skin stick ..and thus .. with time and a lot of sadism . .a sick person could skin a whole man alive.:D

My anvils ..finally got a good photo ..

My 300 lb German hornless anvil. Not as unique as the French anvil, but different anyway. . .

BT

quite a collection of stake anvils on the floor also . .. .i love those

Yeah . .what Glenn said. .

I used it for mass rust removal ..I keep finding old hammer heads and files in old trunks in the attic ..and wherever i roam in my village ...( when im there. .)
I cut the top of a gallon bottle ..put everything in and duct tape it shut. . I call em Blacksmith Pickles . In 2 days . .all the rust and paint falls off and you can clearly see which parts are hardened as they show up black.

I was reading about knives and swords. . .and saw how they're made. ..I thought my usual hammers and RR tracks were enough .but then i started reading more ..and collected everything blacksmith i could find. .and now i have a shop ...but not too much time 2 use it ( school) I still read a lot. .to keep the inner fire going ..and to keep myself from straying from this rather serious hobby ( like i did with the rest ..)

that's why i joined this forum actually :D

This would be it. .

I searched the archive, using the search function and cannot find the original post or blueprint with the information for the TPAAAT. Could someone point me in the right direction? I am in the market for an anvil for Christmas...

So basicaly TPAAAT is just going around asking for anvils and leavin your phone nr with people?
Sounds similar to what I did. . .got a 350 german one for 150$ cast steel .. virtually unused. . rings like a bell. .. altho it had a huge anchor chain welded on the upsetting block ..and a piece the size of thumbtip was missing from an edge.
( that's a 2 kilo ( 4.4 pounds )hammer on the big one and a 1 kilo (2.2 pounds) hammer on the small one.

Don't know about 3 sins. The way I always heard this was that there were only 2 blacksmiths in hell. One was there for not charging enough for his work and the other for striking cold metal.

I think the first one was there cuz he worked for credit. .. ( it came up in the " what sign should I hang above my shop door " thread. .)

Thx for all the info guys. .. I knew it was dangerous. . but I thought it could be controlable. ..

Cool ..so Thermite would destroy any anvil we would try to repair ..and vaporize us. . .

we better leave it to the railroads. ..

Hey everyone !

I don;t know if this is the best place for this thread. . but it has the most people on it at any one time. ..soo

Does anyone know anything about welding with Thermite?
( as far as I know that's how they weld sections of RailRoad together seamlessly and it sounds like it could have applications in repairing badly damaged anvils. .and even reattach horns)

Has anyone tried it?

How do you make it and use it?

Try and find a place where the RR is being renovated. .altho it can be hard. ..

All the other suggestions work well too. About cutting them smooth. . .I'm more interested in the Thermite plasma welding . . In fact . .I'll start a topic on that. .

yeah!. .perfect ..try to leave a few nicks in the blade so it "bites" into flesh better:D

I think all swords must be treated in this manner. .

maybe not huge spring steel greatswords. . but most of em ...especially knives. .

Umm ..COAL!!

Avoid Harbor Freight Anvils!

lathe ...very old. . .belt powered

Yes they ARE very nice. .They combined the Euro anvil with the German pattern and a failed attempt to integrate the cathedral windows of the Austrian pattern. ..but those were meant to me used as a swage block. .so it's just decorative now. ..
The horn is taken from English and American style anvils .. as European ones have perfect cones ( Nimba as well)
If Batman was a blacksmith this would be the anvil for him:)

In my opinion ..you should try smaller pieces ( if you don;t want to build a bigger forge)

small pick up truck springs. ..that you have to anneal first
to do this ..prepare a bonfire big enough so that the coals left over will completely cover the springs. .

arrange the wood with the springs at the center. ..and light. .when all that remains are coals .and burning embers. . .cover the springs. .uniformly .with the hot coals. .and cover the coals with a layer of dry sand ..
leave till the second day ..
after you remove the springs from the pile..you shouldn't be able to hold them with bare hands and if u spit on em . .ure spit should sizzle.

then you can bend and cut and grind at them, ,so you don;t have too much material to heat up in the forge. ..They will also be easier to forge.

Niice.. .altho I would have cut a part out where the "burning bush" should be. . .and maybe a belly button .. .so as there's no doubt

I also would polish it to a mirror finish or pass all over it with an automated wire brush ..then . .it should definetely be laquered or waxed or something to prevent rust . .

about the stand . .make it from the same type of plate steel, and don;t weld it on ..at least not visibly . cut a slot in a piece of plate and ram the sculpture in it. .the weld it on the side that will be on the ground. .so no welds are visible. .( or grind the welds down so it looks like a whole piece. ..)
or maybe two long parallel pieces of plate with notches cut in them. .and the sculpture goes in those notches. . if you look at it from above it should look like an H |-|
I like the way your sculpture makes you think of the female form in a subtle way ..you are good !

The one closest to the anvil body ..the one in the middle is the original Hardie hole ..

the other one seems to be a pritchel hole that was machined/cast to be square .. ( it's normally round)

either that or the guys at the foundry found it easier to make both holes square than to make the pritchel one round. ...

Anyways. .you should only use the bigger hardie hole ( in the middle). . as it has a lot more mass under it ( and the anvil won;t jump around so much ) and its probable most hardie tools will only fit in that hole.

Why not just say everybody was naughty and give em a lump of coal! would save a lot of work!