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Anvils can be found at factory liquidation auctions. Those are usually good, for a simple reason that when factories bought anvils, they had money to burn and they know what is good. They also (usually) do not use those anvils much, because they use more modern technologies for production. So their anvils are used for maintenance, straightening things etc. And there is, of course, eBay, where anvils are plentiful and you can find something close enough to be picked up locally. Congrats on the shop building, I want to have a building like that.

I have cleaned it up and I believe now that the marking is 1-3-10. I mistook 1 for a hammer mark. Pictures are here: So, this anvil is 202 or 206 lbs. I will keep this one and will put my old 137 lbs Peter Wright on craigslist. I already used it today to bend some pipe to make railings for a water slide that I built this weekend. It is shown here:

Guys, I am going to weigh it, as soon as practicable. I have a crane scale, not too accurate for the purpose (2500 lbs max), but it will give me a good idea.

Tungsten is hard to weld, but it is weldable. I have in my garage several tungsten filler rods that can be used to weld tungsten with TIG. And yes, you would also use tungsten electrodes to make the arc. The filler rod is not the same as the electrode. The difficulties of welding tungsten are twofold: first, it has a very high melting point, and second, it quickly oxidizes in open air, so it needs a inert atmosphere to prevent oxidation.

A Peter Wright anvil followed me home today. It has a round logo Peter Wright Solid Wrought or some such. Inside the logo there is a big, prominent number 3 stamped. To the right of the logo there is a number 10 stamped. Am I correct in interpreting it as 3 hundredweight 10 lbs, or 334 lbs? thanks Igor

I think that nothing beats a tree log for an anvil stand. And those are free or nearly so. Sell that cast iron stand, you will get good money for it, and get a tree log. Here's how my anvil is set: Peter Wright Anvil

There are many things that I love doing as a hobby, and would hate to do for a living. They include blacksmithing, welding, and other metalwork. It is fun to do in a home shop, not so fun to do in a production setting where you do the same thing every day and compete with Chinese and Indians for the lowest job rate. I am fortunate in being a computer programming and liking programming a lot to even do it as a hobby as well. At least that puts bread on the table in a clean and healthy manner that is also enjoyable, plus I actually do different things every day.

So, guys, would you say that it is useless for regular blacksmithing, to heat parts to be pounded into shape? Or is it just sub-optimal and a tad too slow? That would be a bummer, if I could not use it for blacksmithing, then I would get rid of it. Hopefully I will pick it up on Tuesday.

It is shown on the thumbnail below. I won it at a liquidation auction. This is a 240v, 7,200 W furnace that goes up to 2,000 degrees F, which is "bright yellow" color. I think that it should be enough for blackmithing, though maybe not for forge welding. But I can do arc welding. I like electricity better than gas, for a few reasons, such as better understanding of electricity and lower risk. I can run it indoors if I want. Thus furnace seems to be a older version of their current HT-22D furnace that you can see in this PDF document: http://www.paragonweb.com/files/catalog/Pa55_Knifemaker_Heattreater_Bro.pdf Tihs furnace may be killing two birds with one stone, one is that it would be useful for all sorts of heat treating, and two, I can use it for blacksmithing purposes. Any comments?

After looking at the picture and other comments, here's how I interpret the items on this picture: 1 - Anvil 2 - Cone Mandrel 3 - ?? Hatchet Stake ?? 4 - Needlecase Stake, see Peddiman Needle Case Stake 5 - Blowhorn Stake, see ebay item 110360263619. These stakes were used by tinsmiths to shape tinware such as funnels and the sides of dish pans. 6 - Needlecase Stake

Hi Bentiron, Here's a very detailed picture with every piece numbered. Number "1" is an anvil, we all know this. Number 2 is a cone mandrel, I think. But what about other numbers? Here's the big picture:

I wire brushed it with an angle grinder.

Go to the link on the first post, the pictures on my site are HUGE.

I have set up my 137 lbs Peter Wright on a stump in my backyard. Much higher resolution pictures are here: Peter Wright anvil In the last picture, I am showing some attachments, and the only thing I know is the cone mandrel. What are the other ones used for?

I have added a few more pictures at the same webpage: More anvil pictures A couple of thumbnails are also attached, but there are more pictures that I added late last night.

This is an optical illusion, the flower signs are stamped, they are not raised. I personally think that mushrooming happened due to being used a lot, possibly with too big hammers or some such. Not that I know much but this is my visual impression.

Great, maybe one day I will stop by...

Yes, I will wire wheel it some more. That's what I used to clean it up. I am 15 miles west of Chicago.

That's exactly what it weighs. Great guess.

Thanks. I just weighed the Peter Wright. It weighs 130 lbs and comes with five hardie tools. I paid $100 for it. Actually it is in a very decent shape, I do not think that they used it much. The anvil that I put on the webpage, in the first message of this thread, I bought for ten dollars due to its poor shape.

For a very strange reason, I ended up today with two anvils following me home. One I bought at a factory, and another at scrap yard. One is a 130 or so lbs Peter Wright with about 5 hardie tools, nothing unusual except for the quantity and interesting-ness of hardie tools. I can post pictures if anyone is interested. 130 lbs weight, $100 for everything. Another one was a mystery anvil I bought at scrap yard for $10 shown here: Mystery anvil pictures Could anyone ID it? It has two flowers stamped on it, and possibly between them there is a stamping that is of s shape of a horseshoe, but maybe it is not the case. It has an appearance of being of "continental" origin, based on my reading of Anvils in America. Also has a kick-asset rebound.

To answer a few points... The original color of this anvil is black. The military spray painted it gray on one side at some point. The base is cast steel, 90% rebound.

Does yours have a tool steel plate on top?

Yes, it does have a casting line, which is not sharp but rather looks like chicken poop that was stepped on. But the line is very visible.

It looks like a hay budden, in many ways, but the book does not mention such markings as I found on my anvil.