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K.C.

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  1. I have a Mouse Hole. Mine has a very similar indentation on the side like yours near the base. Almost like a tool mark when it was forged. Mine is a little longer and rectangular. Prolly two inches wide and three inches long. It travels diagonally from the base towards the top. Does yours have a handling hole in the bottom?
  2. I saw this anvil and the 300# Fisher in Houston... I'm still chuckling to myself about the price of both.
  3. Great find! That's a nice size. Whatcha gonna make first?
  4. I'd say my area is in the middle. Most of the time they are priced too high. I have tried to buy all the fair priced ones I have found. After looking for several months with no luck anvil heaven opend up and dropped several in my shop.. It seems like it has slowed down here lately. I search every craigslist area in TX every week. Haven't been able to go to any swap meets. I do ask every person I meet if they have an anvil. Half of them ask me what an anvil is a 1/4 have one and won't let go of it and the rest just don't have one.
  5. Thanks for the info. I've wire wheeled several of mine many times.. I've never had any of them looking that good. She sure is a beauty! Oops.. Sorry for the double post.
  6. Thanks for the info. I've wire wheeled several of mine many times.. I've never had any of them looking that good. She sure is a beauty!
  7. That's a great looking anvil! What did you use to clean it up so well?
  8. Thanks to all for the replies. Especially to one about my little helper. As for the story... The first anvil I tried to buy was a 100 pound Kohlswa. I had to wait a good bit for the auction to get to it so I spent my time buying other tools.. I can't resist.... I think I may have a problem.. When the anvil lot got close I stood a little closer to it so the auctioneer would see me bid. A nice gentleman asked if I needed an anvil.. I said "well, I think I could use one.." He stepped a few feet away and was talking with another man. I couldn't help but over hear him talk about a 400-450-& 500 pound anvil in his collection. I had to ask him about them! I did and we talked right up until the anvil came up for bids. The last thing he told me was "don't go crazy on that anvil. If you don't get it come talk to me." It sold for 550. I didn't even bid. I found my new friend and he invited me to his shop where he showed me some of the most beautiful anvils Ive ever seen including a church window anvil. Most of his were German Double Horns with matching cast iron bases. We talked for a long time exchanged contact info and I left. He coached me on my first anvil purchase and we have talked about every other Ive bought. When my double horn poped up on craigslist I instantly called him. He asked me to send him a picture. I did, he called me right back and said "I know that anvil, I know where it came from, buy it! Buy it if you have to sell every anvil you own!" Turns out he did indeed know the anvil. He knew the brand just by the poor picture I sent him. Funny how small the world can be. I forged on her for the first time tonight. It was awesome. I made a RR Spike into a bottle opener. I have made many so I decided to do something new. I made the head into a skull then used a fuller I made to create a neck for the skull.I then put a nice twist on it and drifted a hole, put a dimple on it to catch the bottle cap and finaly hammered the tip to a square taper so it would match the anvil horn. It wasn't perfect but it was my first skull and first drift. Me and the anvil are still geting acquainted... Learning how to dance with her without her slapping my hands away for getting too friendly... Lol
  9. So after looking at hundreds of anvils and buying several I found my perfect match. There is a long story behind it... But I'll cut to the good part. She is a 475 pound German Double Horn. F. W. Durres & Son to be exact. I love her. Especially at 3.15 a pound. My friend and I lifted her from the floor to the stump... Man is she heavy!!! I will put her on a 24 inch OD pecan stump this weekend after I cut it and rout out the base. In the picture of two anvils, the top one is a 96 pound Mouse Hole to compare size... Or check out the beer bottle for reference... I must be the happiest man on earth... BTW.. My 4 month old looks so cute on that old girl doesn't she?? Can't wait to teach my baby (Aphrodite) what I know!
  10. Picked this beauty up today for 1.50 a pound. It's my first Peter Wright. How old is it? What's the "Y" for? What are the two little cross stamps on the front foot? She has great rebound and a beautiful ring... A little beat up but I love her all the same. Thanks guys.
  11. This one doesn't open bottles..lol. I haven't made anything like this b4 and after seeing lots of neat projects on IFI I had to try this. I didn't really know what I was doing, just knew what I wanted the steel to look like. I wanted bold features. It's not perfect bit it's a start. Next I am going to make another out of 1 inch square. Then it will be transformed into a door knocker. I still have about a foot of matirial left on the first dragon that I need to use to make it in to something usefull... Hmmmmm.. Btw- thanks guys!
  12. Made this from one inch round stock. First one.... What do you guys think?
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  14. I found my first in Elgin TX on Craigslist. He was asking 270. It is a hundred pounds and only marked with a M. Awesome ring and rebound. Got it for 270 with two pair of Heller Tongs. 18" and 20". He also brought it to Fort Worth for me! My second was also found on CL. It was listed as a very big and very old anvil.. No photo. Asking price was 90.00. I called instantly. Said it had some numbers on the side and was well over a hundred pounds in great shape. I told him I'd take it! He said another guy was coming to look at it. I said I'd pay more and leave right then. He said he'd call if the other guy didn't want it. Ten minuets later he called and told me he informed the other guy it was sold and then told me to come get it. When I got there it was a 96 pound Mouse Hole Forge welded to a heavy stand and painter red. I gave him the requested 120 and went home. I cut the welds off and when I wire wheeled the paint I could hear the horn singing. Beautiful ring and good rebound. I love them both and. And wait to find my third. Btw the stand from the Mouse Hole makes a great leg vise stand...
  15. Thanks a bunch guys. The air gap did the trick. I'm gonna coat the inside as soon as I decide on an id for the chamber. I ran the forge for a few hours and found no noticeable heat under the table.
  16. Thanks again guys. That will fix me up. Made an air gap tonight. Haven't fired it up yet. It will hold me over till I build a new top. I will have to get some Plistix from u Wayne.
  17. So my forge is running great thanks to u guys. Thanks again btw.. Now I have a new problem. I'll start at the beginning. I welded a frame together and placed a HEAVY DUTY top on it. The top is made of wood. B4 u say wood is flammable.... The wood I used was part of a conveyor belt that carried Pave stones through a fire to bake and cure the stones. It is made of an exotic tree "can't remember the name" 1 inch thick 3 foot 2 inch wide and 4 foot 6 inches long. Metal bands on the sides. They are made of several planks that are and tongue & grove with all thread bolts holding them all together. They weigh 100 pounds each. My table top is cut to half that size. I took some appart and threw it in the fire place. It took all night to burn one board in an already hot fire. Last night my forge ran hotter and longer than ever and the table top started to smoke from the heat being absorbed through two layers of fire brick. I was wondering if I made a "retaining wall" around the edge of the table and filled it in with sand... Then placed the forge back on top would this solve my problem? Is there a better way? A metal top would be heavy although the wood weighs fifty pounds. Wouldn't a metal top warp? What should I do?
  18. Don't be upset. I looked for a long time b4 I got my anvil at a good price. RR track held me over till I found a good anvil. I watched a Swiss anvil do for 5 dollars a pound, PW's that were crazy expensive... Smashed up broken fishers that were 4 bucks a pound ECT. in time u will find exactly what u need. Make sumthn work till that day comes. It will all work out man.
  19. Just wanted to share some pics from start to finish with you guys. A while back I met a guy who had some fire brick I wanted so I could heat treat my first straight razor. Turns out he was moving and needed to let go of some other stuff too. He gave me a small section of RR track, an anvil stump, and the brick. He tried to buy the razor but it wasn't done and I always keep the first of any thing I make. Turns out the stump was a massive chunk of hard wood that came from a bridge demo. The bridge connected Texas and Oklahoma. It weighs about 250 pounds... It was uneven but worked well with the RR track. I had the track milled flat and fastened it to the stump with RR spikes. I recently found an anvil. It has a 7/8's hardy hole and is a hundred pounder only marked with a protruding M. If I drop a ball bearing from 18 inches it rebounds to 17 inches. I love it. I was reading some forums and learned about the router sled trick. My father came over with his router, we made the sled and went to town. After a few hours of work on the stump and enough saw dust to cover the state she was flat and true. I also countersunk the anvil base 3/8'ths. I then put a red mahogany stain on top and coated the sides and top with a clear stain/sealer. I re worked my hammer hangers and re organized them in order of use and preference. The pics are from start to finish. All the black hammers are ones I have made and the rest are my favorites I use all the time. The next to last pic if of my first three RR spike bottle openers. First time to forge anything. They get better every time I make one. Learning every time I swing a hammer. The last pic is my RR track re homed on a new stump with tie plates for extra working room and a 15 pound ASO.
  20. That was what I used for my first. Served me well. I had mine machined flat at the local shop. It cost me 35 dollars and gave me more flat work space and nice clean edges. Still use it. I actually just set up a new stump for it. Anvil on one side of the forge and RR track on the other.
  21. K.C.

    Burner trouble.

    Hahaha.... Funny guy that Frosty... Lol. I think I may have found your plans on the web. Now I just need to reconstruct the burner. The T won't be a problem. I guess I can use the burner tube I have and just change out the top end. I run a set of oxygen & acetylene hoses from my Harris regulator to the 1/4 inch ball valve which is connected to the jet tube.. Was a little unclear how to connect the mig tip to the gas line on the T burner.
  22. K.C.

    Burner trouble.

    I did loose the bricks on the side soon after I posted the pics. Much hotter! I really like the T idea. I feel like the gas and air flow will work much better. I need to find your plans. I'm still learning to navigate this site. It's different on the phone that a "real" computer. Lol.. I haven't owned a computer in... Well since I got an iPhone years ago.
  23. K.C.

    Burner trouble.

    Did the pictures not show up on my last post? I have got most of the bugs worked out now. The bell was too small, the regulator was too cheap, and the burner tip was cruddy. Fixed all that and now she gets whatever you put inside HOT. Still wanna try a TRex burner. They seem to be pretty sweet.
  24. He brought the anvil, hardie tool's, and tongs today. Paid 270 for all of it. She rings like a bell and has awesome rebound. The tongs are sooooooo much better than channel locks! lol The anvil has cut my forge time in half working RR spike bottle openers. So happy with it!
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