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Yes Neil, I believe this is the same one. I recall seeing the raised lettering on the one in Kitchener. I could make out the word 'ALL' but that was it as the anvil was sitting on its side. I asked the seller to tell me what the rest of the words were but he never replied. There was the same blue paint on the base of of the one in Kitchener as well. The guy from Graton lists anvils quite often. I'm guessing he scours Kijiji and farm auctions to flip them.

I think this guy is flipping it. Just 1 day earlier it was listed for $300 in a different town. I emailed the seller but I guess this guy beat me to it.

Ptree, my thoughts are still with your family. I still remember when you and Larry both posted about your tragedies within a day of each other and I was totally saddened and the thought of what you were going through. Hang in there Jeff. I wish you the best.

It definitely has the characteristics of a Peter Wright (flats on the feet). It looks to be in nice condition too.

Yes, I was thinking of those. I couldn't view images and I forgot that he had the 2 'R's on his anvils instead of 1. I guess it's a moot point since the anvil punch bought is very different from the Renato anvils. I have spoken to the German journeyman blacksmith who has his original anvil that Renato modelled his 630ish pound German pattern after. This man vouched that Renato makes some very nice anvils.

Hopefully it's a Rennato.

Awesome! You have seem to have the 3-D sheet metals sculptures figured out.

Can you say that you have used it and have results to show it? Mr. Gearhart said nothing about the type of steel he was using. Oh, I see you added some additional comments after I posted. I'm sure Mr. Gearhart would be open to hearing some real world results.

I think the the original poster was just asking if anyone has any experience with the acrylic polymer quenchants. If anyone has any experience with them, then they can relate those experiences. If you don't have any experiences with them, then why comment in such a negative fashion? Mr Gunter's Superquench appears to have a place. Perhaps acrylic polymers do as well??? I don't think they have anything to do with blood or urine either. Seriously, the snarky comments that come out in some of these posts really introduce a negative vibe into this forum sometimes....

My favorite Grant post of all time: Someone started a thread asking for help identifying their anvil. Another member posted something along the lines of "that's a Badger". Grant's response in a total deadpan fashion was "No, that's definitely an anvil."

August 4th. Looks like it would be an interesting demonstration. http://www.canada.com/health/Sharpening+their+skills/6987547/story.html

That Peter Wright appears to be in very good shape. The face and edges look very good. If the chisel marks on the horn are a concern they can be dressed out with a grinder but the most important part (face) looks to be in excellent condition. The rust won't hurt anything and will wear off with use. If the face hasn't delaminated anywhere, I would definitely take a close look at it.

Nice. Congrats!

The best part of my OCP tongs is that I was able to purchase them directly from Grant when I visited Seattle last year. He was gracious enough to show me around his shop and demo his induction forge and power hammer for me. That hour was my favourite part of the entire 2 week trip.

KYBOY, there's no shame to be had. Please post yours and be proud of them.

That's a good point Brian. I have never looked at it that way. It would be easy to just flip them over and forge the point on the other end. Thanks for the feedback!

:rolleyes:

Visible evidence greatly supports your credibility. It takes 30 seconds to take a picture. You have over 11,000 posts so I would imagine you have plenty of time to upload your pictures.

Uh-oh. Beth, those are supposed to be wheat, not corn. I guess I should work on them a bit more. Thanks for the compliments!

A woman I work with asked me to make her a sculpture for her upcoming family reunion. Our provincial flower is the tiger lily and there is a lot of agriculture here as well so she wanted to incorporate these themes into the sculpture. I came up with this for her. Her family has a raffle at their reunions where everyone brings something to raffle off. The proceeds go towards paying for the next reunion. This will be raffled off in a couple of weeks.

5'x5' platen with very large (around 200 pounds) Reed vise - $100 Approx 350 pound Fisher Sawyer pattern anvil - $150 25 pound trip hammer - $300 7 3/8" jaw, 170ish pound Peter Wright vise - $150 4 post drills including 1 massive Cannedy Otto - $5 Swage block - $150 New 40 amp plasma cutter - free Cone mandrel, swage block w/stand, 8.25" Peter Wright Vise - $1000 I have paid $1/pound or less for many of my anvils. Whether that is a steal of a deal or not is debatable as is evident from the numerous threads that drone on about that magic number... Edit, I forgot about the Champion 400 I got for free, the large Vulcan firepot I got for free, my current forge and blower that I got for free, I have about 5 leg vises I paid less than $30 each for, my 10" Wissota bench grinder I paid $30 for and the list goes on. I just watch local online classifieds very closely. As soon as I see the ad I contact the seller.

Canadian Blower and Forge anvils also had mounting lugs cast onto the feet.

If you have access to one, a concrete line pump can probably pump that concrete from the bottom of the hill. The drawback (besides cost) is you waste some concrete in the lines. Pumping also affects the air entrainment of the concrete so it should be noted with your concrete supplier that it will be pumped so they can compensate at the mixing stage.

That's pretty incredible.

I had a 450 pound anvil shipped by rail for half what it would cost by truck.