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​If you turned it round it probably would look ok, nice garden ornament

ITs like going from a pen knife to a leatherman super tool.

Lost opportunities of this nature are hard to get over, my advise is to find you own anvil and take comfort in the thought that in a way your Grandpa and his anvil has lead you into taking up forging yourself.

​Yeah its a sad picture, don`t know the history but its for sale at the moment

I might have said this cracked me up but I won`t.

Wow that is a record asking price, interesting to see what they  get , I have one just like it There does not seem to be that logical relationship between wt = $ anymore.I put a post up awhile ago from ebay  bk anvil only 7 lbs actually went for $331.60 including post.

Welcome there is stacks of good information on this site about heat treatment but just quickly spring steel needs to be quenched in oil not water you will find that works much better.Check out the section on heat treatment.

That would have looked good on video.

When I first stared working in refrigeration it was on a 400 ton ammonia(R717) plant it can be dangers stuff. Its boiling point is -28F at atmospheric its somewhat flammable and can be explosive with the right air mix a small amount may burn, damage the eyes and cause loss of consciousness so be careful !Note that applies to ammonia refrigeration don`t know if Anhydrous is any safer.

Thanks guys and thanks for the award Frosty.

Fantastic looking door knocker lots of great work like to see it when its installed.

Window bars for garden tool shed,I was just waiting for a window to put metal on.Sorry the photos are sideways it was before I work out which way to hold the Iphone

wow that's impressive a wonder what the age of that work is? The screws on the switch plate show the depth of detail what a craftsman,  I went to Philadelphia once for 3 or 4 days lots of good stuff to see but I did not see that Cathedral.

I`m sure some of you live in parts of the world that sports great iron work.I have photographed a few pieces I have seen round my Town. 

welcome AML can`t tell you what the D means many PW anvils have letters stamped in varies locations like on the front of each foot I was told it could be a batch number or something and have never seen the iron cross. But I can tell you your anvil was made after 1910.Would be good to see a picture of the whole anvil

Here in Australia the 9 inch grinder was banned from building sites.

Interesting idea Charles certainly ticks all the right boxes

Finale Bayonet handle gets a blade!  I must say that after seeing the quality of workmanship of some of the knifes and swords on IFI I was a bit worried about this project.The blade is silver soldered to the handle using blue tip, in the end I  thought its only a wall hanger and no weld type is going to give it original strength anyway.The tyre lever or iron is great steel to work with I will be on the look out for more of them.

​Thanks Charles,I have an old tier iron which should be good steel.I put a picture earlier in this topic.

​Hello Phil I bought the handle for a secondhand shop he also had a complete one he said was alight horseman bayonet with the hook guard with he wanted $700 for.I must get back to that bayonet handle project sometime still not sure how to do the hollow along the blade.I agree about the notch why would they weaken it at that point. 

Great work,really like the handle.Was the blade made from a large rasp?

Lovely work Frank, really like the two Suffolk latches you made lots of precise forging in those.

That's right, there seems to be a lot of anvil sold in Vic and not too many up your way.

That's an impressive looking anvil the size of the base section look more robust than many other makers.

​Yeah see what you mean about being welded on that section along 4" from the horn.The other side looks suspect also.