Iron123

Sweet thanks guys

Hey guys Manley iron here but I prefer to be called Eric. Anyway I don't know if you guys know that I am now in Arizona as of October 4th and have moved from Alaska. but I wanted to know if there is any smiths close to peoria that I can talk to or hang with or that I can go to if I need some help since I am a fairly new smith.

Lol sry for the confusion I just got my profile updated. Anyway I'm hoping to go to the pieh tool place that just opened up here in Phoenix. Oh also my gramma got me a going away gift. It's a railroad track bench anvil i will get some pics when my gramma ships it to me. Oh and how's it goin frosty make anything cool?

I think this topic was misnamed by me sry guys it was supposed to be Arizona but I'm here and wanna start smithing soon and what do you mean it's cold? Is it cold in your location Thomas?

Hey guys I made it to arizona last week and got all of my blacksmith stuff yesterday. I just wanted to let you guys know and keep you updated and I will post stuff here from time to time but I'm gonna try to get into the blacksmiths association here.

And the face is not off it is just mushroomed between the Step and where the face begins

According to anvils in america and basic design it looks like a buffalo forge co anvil. Weird lookin anvil though and don't know what kind of quality it is.

Very true frosty and custom knives dude hehe.

oh and it has a fuller but its kinda hard to see

hey guys I just thought I would want to share with you that I recently inherited a knife that was given to my grandpa by my great grandpa filo. they have both passed away a long time ago so my grandma thought it was time to get some of his hunting gear. in a box was 2 knives one that was forged and one made in the 70s by Solingen. right now im going to show you the one that was forged at least I think was forged. sorry if the pictures turn out weird im working with an ipod lol

Whatever the rod it was a good repair frosty and is really working for me. I got to forge a little but sticking to small things since I'm movin but once I get to Arizona I'm going all out as far as forging things

I know it's just I would like an original sheath to put along side it I don't even wanna touch my sword with sandpaper or even buff it best just to leave it the way it is. What I would REALLY like is a Kyu gunto or aka type 95 katana man those things are cool but were mass produced so quality suffered and most of the time when they were brought back by vets From ww2 there kids played with them and dinged em up and were abused .now a real sengoku jidai (warring years) period katana that's a whole different story those katanas were turned out fast but still maintained the same quality as traditionally made samurai swords

Sweet man nice find I'm hopin to get a 200+ lbs trenton some day hay budden has some really cool history from what I have read in anvils in America James hay and Frederick budden started the company both being smiths they had this idea of making anvils and did it until about 1926 like you said. Anyway I'm not gonna give you a history lesson but nice find. get hot metal on that beauty as soon as possible!

The pics are in my other anvil repair thread just go to the main topic menu thingy and click anvil repair it was posted up I think in July

Sweet thanks for identifying this for me I'm hoping to hang it somewhere or try to get a sheath for it

sorry if they are upside down im working on a different slower computer

hey guys sorry for the wait but here are the pictures of the repaired anvil

Oops sorry double post

Hehe yup but Any excuse to use my "anvils In America" book if you don't have it you should get it it's a wealth of information and can help you identify anvils In the future.

Hehe yup but Any excuse to use my "anvils In America" book if you don't have it you should get it it's a wealth of information and can help you identify anvils In the future.

Ok I could not "pinpoint" the make of it but it could be a aslop, hadfield and Sanderson Sheffield or a no namer I really don't know for sure but whatever it is its old and it's very usable/valuable. But best of luck with whatever you decide to do with it

You could reenact. I know I would if I had an anvil like that but that's me this is your anvil so do whatever you want with it you could trade it but what are you looking to get in the trade? Also I'll look in my anvils in America book to see what make your anvil is and what the marks are but I think your right it might be a mousehole then again there was over 100 different anvil makers in England at the time so it might be hard to pinpoint what make it is but ill try my best

Hehe sweet frosty I just sent you the pics from when I took them but whatever works. anyway thanks frosty can't wait to se the pics!

Hey guys in the group and everybody else who is interested this is sort of a follow up to my other post about the anvil repair back in July anyway frosty got it welded up and fixed and all that good stuff and now he is gonna do a before and after on it and I'm gonna go and pick it up on Friday. But anyway I just wanted to do a quick little update on the progress of it from my end. frosty's post I'm pretty sure is gonna be really in depth and cool so keep an eye out for his post. Hehe so exciting!

I'm sorry for your loss my prayers go out to your family and friends.