The block is around a 100 pounds, it' d be nice to have a horn & holes though, driving the eyes on these hammers would have been easier, as it was I used an old weight with a hole in it balance on top to use drifts on, not easy to do by myself.
This style of hammer has always looked very uncomfatable & just wrong to my eyes, that's why I thought I'd give them a go, that & a simple excuse to make something else I could manage! I have heard many sing the praises of this pattern for forging bevels on blades, my reason for wanting to try them, in the hand they feel like they will to some extent be self aligning due to the mass under the handle. The handles are angled down a few degrees.
I'm not in a hurry for an anvil, all things come to he who waits....... Just how long
Can you remember where exactly, I 'all go look