mike k

I should of said the green thing next to the buggy ausfire thought it was a grindstone

Thats a abbott buggy. In October my youngest daughter is getting married at home and she wants to arrive in the buggy. In front of the buggy is a chaff cutter I restored .

I will have to do the test again. The results I'm getting are defying the laws of physics, hence the screen shots, 95%+/- is the figure everybody quoting so assume this anvil is the same. But at the end of the day it's irrelevant all you have to do is work on it and you can feel the difference. At the moment I haven't got my shop set up, I just put the anvil, vice and stump in and sat my old gas fire on top of the coal forge. I need to make a flue for the coal fire, it's good enough for now to work machine made shoes and shoe a few horses that I have come to me. I hope to have it all finished by the end of the year as next year I plane to work mainly from home shoeing and up skill in general blacksmithing . I have just picked up a 9 ton screw fly press which I have been fixing up. I have no experience with using one, I'm looking foreword to playing with it.

I'm surprised at the interest and kind replies about the anvil. This is the first time I have ever posted anything on a forum.

screen shots of ball bearing test from 10" 2

I could never work out what it said thanks

Yes I agree . I video it then played it back freezing the frames, but I think as the bearing bounced it moved closer to the camera which probably made it look higher.

Yes frosty you are right . I have a 70 lb cliff carol cast iron anvil I use daily. My work shop anvil was a BK cast iron anvil before that a old wrought iron forged anvil. I made some shoes on the söderfors anvil and I was amazed at the difference . I did the ball bearing test today 100% rebound. I was just curious how hard the anvil was in compassion to the Kohlswa forged anvil. I'm having trouble posting pictures not very good with computers. As soon as I sort it out I will post them. cheers from Australia Mike.

Thanks Frosty I purchased the anvil about 18 months ago but have only just set her up in my new shop. I'm a farriery so most of the work is light work but what a difference compared to my cast iron BK anvil which is about 350 lbs also. The soderfors anvil is a far superior anvil . I will do the ballbearing test and post some pics of her asap.

Can anyone tell me the approximate rockwell hardness of a 1922 350 lb soderfors anvil ?