as i posted in the introductions forum, i just bought my first anvil with a horn (i bought a 65 lb fisher sawyer's anvil about 8 years back for $20, but that's another story, to be found in the oldtools archives...). note that some of the pictures are the same from that thread.
here's how it was presented in the ad:
it was dull (from the concrete, i imagined), and seemed to bounce ok, so i bought it.
here it is in the truck...well strapped, i wasn't interested in having it slide all over the place. even as it was, it rolled a bit from side to side, and coming home from work on fairly windy roads it was moving me around just a bit:
when i got it home i decided to take it off its base, as it was too heavy for me to hoist about by myself...which is what's needed for the time being. and the WAF of the anvil alone is an order of magnitude higher than it would be on its base. i salvaged the iron rods that were set in the concrete, for tool holding, i assume. i then wirebrushed it, and hosed it off. when i get it on its stump i'll put some atf fluid on it (to keep the sides from rusting any more), and use the heck out of it. btw, it rang like a bell once it was out of the concrete!
it came with this bottom fuller (i believe that's what it's called), which i have since evaporusted:
it was advertized as a "swedish" anvil, and lo, it is:
a soderfors, marked at 125 lbs. i am considerably happy B) there are some marks on the front foot, under the horn:
makes me think it was made in 1911. maybe in december, or the 12th anvil of the year, or model 12, or...
it does have some chipping out of the table:
but michael (who looked at the pictures, and greased then pushed me down the slope advised me to buy it) suggested those weren't too much of a problem. to that end, what advise can be given here to me about how to treat those edges? leave them? grind them to a radius? have them welded up?
so, i am feeling pretty good about the $200 I spent, and look forward to learning how to do things a blacksmith does (since i can't ever see me calling myself a blacksmith, per se). first thing i need is a forge, and that will come as it does...
best,
bill
felton, ca