Irondragon Forge ClayWorks

I would say no more than $250, reason being the bad crack just forward of the hardy hole. Any hammering on the tail or using hardy tools would probably break it off.

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I don't think 140 pounds is overkill by any means.

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Bob Patrick made a believer out of me many years ago.

I have three anvils and a post vise mounted on oak stumps, one stump is hollow. They have held up without splitting for over 20- 30 years. I don't think you have anything to worry about. The dynamics of splitting oak with a splitter or maul are different than pounding on one with hammer & anvil.

They both strike me as being way over priced.

I guess you think other Bader B2 users are just sitting around waiting for you to ask a question.

Welcome back... great now I have an old TV theme song running through my head. You will probably find some changes to the forum from when you were last on it, updates and all that stuff. We lost a lot of pictures in the updates. This will probably help getting back in the groove. READ THIS FIRST I think I've found ya. https://www.iforgeiron.com/topic/219-blacksmithing-for-a-living/?tab=comments#comment-1501 I bet if you contacted Glenn via PM, he could get you back on line under your old log on.

Frosty, shouldn't that be the anvil stand thread? BTW: I called a friend who has a copy of AIA and that serial number is from 1895. She's in darn good shape for being that old.

Welcome to IFI... I always suggest reading this to get the best out of the forum. READ THIS FIRST Your brother started a thread about this anvil in another section so I suspect your thread will be merged with it. Someone with a copy of AIA will probably be along to say about when it was made. There are quite a few threads here about serial number ranges.

The number 99 under Brooklyn is the weight in pounds as manufactured. The 19447 is the serial number. I would say Robison is a prior owners name. Someone with a copy of AIA will probably let you know about when it was made. You have a very nice HB and I hope you have read about not doing any grinding, milling or welding on the hardened face, all she needs is hot steel hammered on the face to make it shine.

Yes it's aligned with the winter solstice.

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The edit button for a post is only available for 30 min. To resize a picture, before hitting the submit reply button double click on the uploaded picture and a dialog box pops up so you can resize it. I usually use 500x375 for a size.

Could that be Wolverhampton? There is a city in England with that name and it was a city with a lot of manufacturing . Just a thought though, and by the way Welcome to IFI. I always suggest reading this to get the best out of the forum. READ THIS FIRST Knowing where you are located may help with the ID of the anvil, hence the suggestion to edit your profile to show location. PS: A good looking anvil you have, looks like she's ready to go to work.

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I hate it when that happens. I get sidetracked often.

My first anvil (above a 55 pounder) is a Vulcan 110 pound made in 1943. Picked it up in the early 80s for $175 so in today's market I'd say you did good. Vulcan's have a pretty thin hardened face plate so I wouldn't do anything as far as grinding on it. You will find it's very quiet, so it's one of my favorite anvils and I still use it. Pounding hot steel on it will shine up the face and help to smooth out the chisel marks. The only treatment I did to mine was to spray it with WD-40 a long time ago.

I'm not sure how old mine is, but the label that was on the wood dove tailed box looked like from the early 1900s or so. I bought it off of eBay sometime in the early 2000s and it is still loose powder not caked. I use it very sparingly once in a while welding difficult steel.

I have an old box of Cherry Heat flux and the visible amount of iron filings is nowhere near 40% not sure if the filings are cast iron though. It does a good job of welding though not really any better than Borax by itself in my observations.

Welcome to IFI Jacobeen. I always suggest reading this to get the best out of the forum. READ THIS FIRST Are you located in Australia? There are a great bunch of smith's here from down under. https://www.iforgeiron.com/topic/7176-oz-roll-call/If you have done any reading here, you probably know we love pictures.

Yes it is, especially since it sits just inside of a large circle of smaller standing stones my wife calls her garden.

Chris, you might want to edit your post to resize the pictures to 500x375. We have members world wide and a lot of them have to rely on dial up internet or pay for band width and huge pictures eat it up or take forever to load.

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