Foundryman

Looks like a hand held induction heater, think electric blowtorch for localised heating. It's an interesting idea and I didn't actually know such things existed!

No, Whitechapel, but it's not uncommon for the two to work on each other's bells or replace fittings, or copy the other company's products for that matter!

When I worked at the bell foundry the no-bell prize was awarded after miss-casts where the mould didn't flow properly! Also those look more like chime hammers than bell clappers, I may have actually disposed of the pattern used to cast those a couple of months ago. In the devastation here you can see some patterns for a much larger version.

That'll do the job nicely! I'd just mount it up and put the vise to use and leave the bracket as it is for now. If it bothers you as it is, manufacturing more authentic one would make a fun future project! Great vises Frank, thanks for sharing.

I don't know but mine says "Patent Solid Box" so I would assume it would be possible to research when that patent was filed and then you would know your vise was manufactured at some point after that date.

Good save on the vise, and at a good price too! It looks as though you have the cousin to my vise posted here: Your vise has the heavy chamfer on the legs referred to by Frank Turley on the thread regarding my (English) vise, it's interesting to see the American version posted, thanks for posting it.

Used to spin a room? Most people just use alcohol, it's less bulky and does a fine job of spinning a room!

I can't help with the sharp edge problem, personally I'd just grind it off, but I will say that the blades on the planer I used to use were HSS (high speed steel) and were fairly useless for blade stock, I hope yours are something different!

I saw this yesterday and was impressed, a very clear and concise set of instructions, well done!

No offence taken, thanks for the tip. That would be a much more elegant solution and probably be even more secure though with my current set up the anvil is already incredibly quiet as it's stapled down tightly into a bed of silicone.

That's a rare, high speed dragster anvil!

Badly shaped staples! They do contact the feet, and hold the anvil very securely, but they only contact in one or two spots!

Not at all, it's just a stand that's relatively easy to move about and that's non-flammable.

Here's the stand for my 125lb brooks anvil, nothing special, 12x12 iroko heartwood, solid, stable and free, I couldn't ask for anything more.

Thanks for the comments, here are a few more photos I just took, it's been used a little now so the steel has started developing a patina in places. This is probably one of the best performing blades I've made, the edge geometry really lends itself to slicing.

I made this knife mainly because I'm curious about what these Japanese style single beveled knives are like to use and I wasn't going to buy one of I can make one myself. The blade was made through stock removal starting with 3mm O1 that I thinned down to roughly 2.5mm. The handle is Ash that I saved from the firewood pile at work with a bog oak spacer. The knife is 13" long.

Interesting, thanks for the info. This one only has a very slight chamfer to the legs which fits your pattern. I can't see a "P" but there could have been one originally as the "Wright" seems to be offset, there also seems to be some ghost markings between the "wright" and the "patent" but I think they're too far gone and will remain a mystery.

I've owned this vise for over three years but I've never got round to mounting it as I've moved twice in that time and always had other clamping options however now I have a very basic outdoors set up without a workbench or even a roof and I needed to get it mounted. The vise itself was very cheap at £30 and was only 10 miles away, it's in great condition. The stand cost me more than the vise itself as I had to buy the steel disc for the base but I got the box section and mounting plate for free so I can't complain too much. I think the vise is a Peter Wright, it's stamped with "Wright" "Patent" "Solid Box" on the screw box. I painted the mount to prevent rusting and keep the vise rubbed down with a light coat of oil. The whole thing lives under a cheap BBQ cover to keep the rain off as it'll be outdoors year round. Edit: had trouble with photos - fixed.

This 14lb sledgehammer and 28lb anvil on a stick followed me home a couple of weeks ago, both need re-handling but they'll make nice striking hammers for my larger anvil, I swear I could almost see my 125 brooks there shaking with fear!

Having learned on my 450lb Soho pattern anvil I can't really see me wanting anything more. The hardy hole at the horn end is very well supported and though its a large anvil it can mount two different hardys/stakes/mandrels at once allowing great flexibility when it comes to smaller work. I've even made a vice mount for the hardy holes as it makes a very stable filing platform in the absence of a post vise. I've done a lot of striking on it and it soaks up miss-hits and just doesn't care. That being said it didn't stop me buying a 125lb brooks in pristine condition and I would absolutely love a 150lb church window anvil given the chance, there's just something about the way they look.

I don't think its an anvil, it's a hollow cast iron Anvil Shaped Object that's part of an anvil/vice combination that's missing the vice part.

I did actually take a few lengths of wrought in different dimensions as it's irreplaceable though like you, it's not my best friend but we're getting to know each other.

I was recently made redundant, the company I worked for sold up to developers who wanted to take vacant possession of the property so we had to clear the whole site. This company had been at its current premises for 250 years so therefore you can imagine there was a LOT of stuff. We had a fabricating shop, a carpentry shop and a foundry but I brought home next to no mild steel. I can get steel easily and cheaply, I grabbed the things that would have been difficult or expensive to source elsewhere. I did get some steel to fabricate a stand for my post vice however. What I did grab was timber, Walnut, Wenge, Brazilian rosewood, Afzelia, Ash, Cherry, Yew and some 9"x3" x15' pine to build a workbench from. I picked up a 5" angle grinder with over 150 sanding discs, a power file with 80 ceramic belts and sheets of glasspaper. A Dewalt drill and router with very little use and countless hand tools, files, saws, chisels, handplanes etc. In the end we just had to get the building clear and it was tragic what was thrown away, wrought iron, hundreds of feet of mild steel stock in various sections, angle, box etc. Solid walnut furniture that was over a hundred years old, countless tools, grinders, even a lathe and perfectly good compressor went to the scrap yard. Sometimes the line is drawn for you and you have to be pragmatic, take what you need, what you can use and just let the rest go.

Beautiful work Owen, once again raising bar for the rest of us.

These are a few of the items that have followed me home recently, the 5" makita grinder cost me £10, everything else was free. The stump anvil is wrought iron with a steel face which is delaminating so I think a future project will be to forge weld a damascus steel face onto it, just because I can. The timber is 12"x12"x22" of seasoned Iroko heart wood and will become the stand for my 125lb brooks anvil that followed me home last year. I don't know what I'll do with the canon ball yet, possibly use it for doming work but I had to take it. The two bars at the back are wrought iron. This is the anvil on his new home, I need to forge some straps or staples to hold it down. This is my main anvil at the moment as I've recently moved and my big anvil is in storage until I can figure out the logistics of moving it and have a permanent home to move it to. Simon.