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That wasn’t what I was thinking of, but thanks for the reminder. Let me see if I can find what I had in mind.

Just remember: people are more important than things, and friendships are more important than money.

Picked up a drop of bar grating at my steel supplier, about 8” x 24”. The bars are 1” apart, so I’m thinking this will make a good rack for my hardy tools, which all have 7/8” shanks.

With the caveat that I am very much not an expert on this stuff, I suspect that you would get issues with scaling and warping of the metal, possibly even with the metal burning up. Keeping a gas-tight seal between the plenum and the flame face would be difficult if you had insulating board in between. As someone said, "If there's an obvious and easy solution, there's probably a good reason that people aren't doing it." I would still recommend casting the refractory block. It may be a bit more pricey up front, but worth it in the long run. If you only have weekends available for shop work, would you rather spend that constantly maintaining and repairing your burner, or forging?

And I appreciated your concern! Oddly enough, my worst injuries were all from woodworking and cooking, with nothing more than a couple of minor burns from smithing.

Thanks for telling me this AFTER I visited you in the shop.

I would pirate this idea, but pirates notoriously give no quarter.

There was a post a while back about someone who mounted hand truck wheels on the back of their anvil with a socket for a pipe handle for levering it back and moving it around. Might be worth looking in the anvil stand threads.

Question: why do you need the anvil to be mobile?

Picked this up in a used bookstore in Massachusetts: Written (well, published) in 1958 by J. Gordon Parr, Associate Professor of Metallurgy at the University of Alberta.

Hello!

From “monos” = “one” and “lithos” = “stone”. Tertiary is what comes after primary and secondary, and before quaternary. Tastier, too.

Having a teacher who can both spot your mistakes and tell you how to fix them is GOLD.

Welcome back, Joe. Good to see you again.

Cool! Seems to run pretty smoothly. Did you get it? And what do you mean, "Missing the anvil"? There's one sitting right next to it!

Welcome to IFI! If you haven't yet, please READ THIS FIRST!!!

Welcome to IFI! If you haven't yet, please READ THIS FIRST!!! Nice anvil, looks in good shape, put it to use!

Had an impromptu chain-making workshop with the inimitable jlpservicesinc! (Learned a TON!!!)

So, so. It’s mostly the big stuff, but sometimes you get lucky (like this time).

Good guess. Nice folks.

Agree with what was said above. Also, consider adding some bright lights pointed at the anvil; that will make the autoexposure of your camera less dramatic.

Technically not mine: it’s the one on loan from the college. However, they’re making noises about buying themselves a smaller benchtop model and letting me keep this one.

If noise reduction is your goal, consider a fly press. They have the additional advantage of still working if the power goes out.

Like this?

Groin-groin! (That's "Oink-oink" in French.)