FrankS

I wonder how many of the fine folks here at IFI are doing blacksmithing for a livelihood vs doing it for self-satisfaction (and if there are some sales, that is just gravy)?

I'm brand new at this. My lifelong passion has been photography. I still do a lot of it the old fashioned way, in the wet, instead of the much easier modern digital way. I do it for self-satisfaction. 

my website: frankfoto.jimdo.com

16 hours ago, ThomasPowers said:

Done that too; problem is carrying the roof truss on the road with the forge...

Sky hook?

16 hours ago, lloe01 said:

So you took four and turned them into three?  I know you all wanted to ask this

That actually is pretty neat. I never thought about taking something like that and aging it.  Kewl!

It's a miracle!

Just an interesting fact for some of us. Just like its brand/maker.

So true. Thanks!

(What's CRS and TBI?)

Thanks. From my limited reading, it certainly sounds like Anvils in America is THE book to get.

Any other must have books? 

New to me 152lb Trenton

I've read that some Trentons were imported from Germany?, and some made in Columbus Ohio. Is this so? How can one tell?

Here's a pic of the underside.

Thanks very much! 

A bit about me: I'm newly retired, living north of Toronto in Ontario, Canada.

No blacksmithing/forging knowledge, skills, or experience.

But I have an interest in learning, and now I have an anvil.  

here are the markings

152lbs. $200Cdn

serial number 56456 or 66456

would love to learn when it was made