Kevin Olson

Thumbs up. Nice shaker box. Is there a protective coating on them?

That will destroy a zombie. Heres a pic of a couple zombie elimiator bottle openers. They are the 2 on the right. Made from stainless so the guts do not corrode them then you can can open your favorite beverage. :-)

Welcome aboard bubba. You will fit right in here. Lots of smart people in this forum.

I have a code breaking book from Germany I acquired many years ago and inputing the characters and numbers I see in that line under the makers mark tells us..........that you have an awesome anvil in near perfect condition and to make beautiful things with her! :-) :-)

Forge on it. Then decide what to do with it. You have a real anvil. Not perfect, but more then some of us have.

I am going to assume that where the rust appears now was already rusty before you started to work on it. Maybe not bad enough to really see but it was there. To stop rust(oxidation) you have to 1.remove oxygen or 2. Remove moisture. In your case I think what happened was with the copper blasting was not aggressive enough to actually remove metal to get to the bottom of the rust pits and remove the rust. And your sander only smoothed off the top not removing those pits. Those little pits still have rust in them and absorb moisture and oxygen. When you then coat the surface with penetrol it might block further oxygen and moisture from getting to the surface but does not remove the the moisture and oxygen in those tiny rust pits and they keep oxidizing even though they are sealed from the elements. In the body shop industry the only way to fix rust is to replace the rusty metal. The next best "fix" is to aggressively grind the area to remove all those tiny rust pits. 40 grit on a grinder. 80 grit on an orbital is not aggressive enough. And those pits can go more than half way through the metal. I work in a body shop and to really get those out takes alot of careful attention(magnifing glasses and a good light) to get all the pits. Now you have to remove those aggressive grinder marks(alot of work) to get it to look like the un rusted areas. Then apply the top coat for protection. Then on the other hand. If the metal was perfect, you have you be faster between sanding and top coating.

Hey Gergely. Can you tell how you made the medals. They look like something i could pedal at the renaissance festival here.

I've messed around with some cast iron in the forge and it crumbled kinda like that. But a cast iron hammer. That doesnt seem right. Should be much to brittle for a hammer.

Wow. 3 feet of mass under the striking surface. Yup. That will work just fine.

Glen was very popular back in the day. In fact, he sold more records in 1968 then the Beatles! He will be missed :-(

Read through the anvil section. Lots if ideas for anvils.

It gives off hydrogen gas

Glad everyone is ok. Help comes to those who believe. Hey Das, whats up with those extensions on the frame horns. I've never seen those before. And wheres the impact bar? Never saw one totally gone. Weird looking hit.

Im wondering if you could post a pic of the bottom?

I have to hand it to you thats a cool hand. I would like to see a tutorial on how to forge one. That would be handy

A cheap ASO now has a purpose. Im going to start looking for one.

I like glens idea. I haven't gotten extreme with unmounting my anvil but have used her beautiful curves to form stuff although I do get into some interesting positions to do it. Lol.

Wash off the WD. Its not good for long storage. Others will chime in on formulas for oil treating it. I use lite house hold oil from ace hardware store in a 6 once jug

Kensiron.com. He's a central minnesota blacksmith and metalworker with 2 employee's and his wife. Sells a good butchers block brush. I'm glad I bought one.

Heres my small pile. Have to keep it inside. But theres a couple big rig king pins (hammers one day?) input shaft to a 13 speed semi tranny, coil springs from the front of a F350(they made all my tooling). Its just in the corner of my garage. Theres another pic of my new long stuff. Square stock, tube etc. Not alot , but its what I got. Then misc. small stuff in a box, then my box of mostly new rail spikes. Its not a huge pile, but Its more then what I need for now. :-)

Leave the paint, its part of its history. I inherited my anvil from my granddad and it has some white paint drips on. I considered cleaning it off but decided to leave it cuz granddad probably dripped the paint on it.

Neighbors are the biggest concern for smithing. Forging can create alot of noise. My anvil is very quiet in the scope of anvil ring but the wife can still hear me bettin on it. I have a detached garage and even with the doors shut she can tell when im forging. With the bog door open you can clearly hear it across the street. I sounds like thud thud thud. Not anoying but not silent. Then there's smell. I use coal and you can definatly smell it. Not a bad smell and usually not too strong but it still doesnt smell like a bbq grill. I can understand how someone would not enjoy it. Gas forges don't smell but there loud. Frosty has a story about people hearing his from a distance.

Nice stands guys. Heres mine. Anvil is 250pounds and the stump is just as heavy. Took a little work to make it sit flat. Pretty much made 3 high spots on the bottom and screwed/glued 3 pieces of rubber conveyor belt to them. It doesn't move. In fact, it takes 2 of us to move it out of the way so we can work on cars in the shop. Ive thought of steel but for now the stump was easier to build. Ive had no problem getting close enough either.

You take the shaft out of the cylinder and cut and square the end then stand it up right and use it as an anvil. That way you have the maximum mass under the hammer blows. And yes, it will look like a small target but will work. You'll improve your hammer accuracy quickly too.:-)

Ive seen Brent Bailey on youtube forge with a 7 pounder. He makes it look like hes swinging a 2 pounder. Dudes an animal. Hes forging a 5 lb cross pien and gets the hole punched in 2 heats. Awesome. Hes really got his process down.