Rojo Pedro

Wow! Super nice anvil You should post another photo with the ole girl on top :-)

Very nice spatula. My dad owned a drug store in Willcox, AZ in the '70-80s. I have fond memories of helping count pills as a kid Go Fighting Cowboys!

Yeah but I'm talking a $2000 dream anvil :-)

With 2 hours a week at the forge, its going to take the rest of my life but I like it!

If I were to start over, l would go with a side blast charcoal JABOD. Can be made for next to nothing and you could be pounding hot iron in an afternoon. have fun :-)

E-bay has every size, shape, type and quantity delivered to your door. Might get some small samples untill you find what you like to use. Maybe try some old allen wrenches or hammer bits or axles or ..... good luck and show us what you make :-)

For my birthday, my lovely wife gave me a commercially available burner of the mikey style. With hose and regulator I believe it was around $90 delivered, I then read forges 101 twice. Got the kaowool, cast-o-lite and metrikote from mr. Coe for another $90 and maybe another $20 in nipple and screws but i did have a small air tank and enough scrap to build it I am super happy with it and you could not buy a better one for the $200 ive got in it, took about 3 weeks to finish but was not hurrying.

I found the kast-o-lite to be the most difficult part of my build. I have onlny had 3 fires at around 5-6 hours total run time. I barely have the regulator open and have only used about a half bbq tank. My forge is only abour 280 sq. in. and works great so far. Love it!

Cool! how long did it take to build? Having been stung twice, I hate scorpions big time. I'd want that one to scare off the little ones. Nice work

Frosty - just curious, how well did it work?

Nice work on the cleaver and awesome tribute to your dad! Well done Sir

Wow! That is my dream anvil

That anvil has been for sale for a long time at that price, I'd say it was over priced for the area. My local scrap yard has all kinds of shapes and sizes at .35 cents a pound. I am soon to get a big chunk and try a Brazeal style anvil as I am finding my 100 lbs vulcan to be somewhat light duty as my forging experience progresses. Goood luck and keep looking, I got the vulcan off craigslist for $1.50 per pound and its in very decent shape

Very nice. Looks really well built . I got a rivet forge last november but I think i'm out growing it. Could use a bigger fire sometime and cranking the blower gets a little old after a couple hours.

Thanks Frosty, Was thinking striking anvil, my boy will be 11 soon and likes to forge. interesting thought that it might be lead filled. The top is receced and the steel looks like concentric rings, mayb a lid of some kind. The botttom face is smooth. Ive also wondered what the little srews would have been for. Going to look up your reference to forge welding on a dead? surface Dont see many piles driven in Tucson, Too mucho caliche, no?

142 lbs, Gentleman said it was a pile driver hammer and it is flared at the bottom. Not a lot of ring or rebound and seems pretty soft but thougt it might make a power hammer base or hardy hole or ??? and for $10 figured why not...

Paid $90 for mine. Its a three leg steel model, same blower. Blower was very sticky, I disassembled as much as I could. It was very dirty but in great shape. Couple hour soak in simple green and it works a champ-ion. I love it and it performs much better than my wash tub charcoal forge. After using it several times, I have found that it does have some limitations and am now looking to build a propane forge - good luck

Craigslist is your friend Be patient stuff comes up all the time be ready to pounce. It took 8 months but I got a 4.5" leg vise on a huge mobile post mount, 100 lbs anvil and a nice little rivet forge with blower for $340 all in. I am also a newbie but now have a couple dozen fires unnder my belt and im hooked big time!! Good luck

Hi Das, it actually is just a step away. The area is smaller than it looks and is quite tight for 2 people. I really need a larger space. And shade, going to be hot out there this summer

Heres mine, new at this and hope to build a shop soon,

Actually 3 4x12s. It clamps real tight and I could hear them crunching as I tighted them up. Works much better than the the ratchet strap I was using. This was the first time I used my post vice to forge with, bent the corners then cleaned them up on the anvil, very fun to do, love my new hobby!

I made 4 of theese.... And 3 4x12s equals....... Works real well and was my first real "tool"

I made 4 of these........ And did this with them......... I'm really happy with how it turned out It took a couple hours and I consider this my first "tool" project. I used my post vice to bend the corners and cleaned up on the anvil. It was the first time I used the vise to forge. Fun! My forge thanks for looking

Nice anvil

First attempt at a knife, I'm a beginner and have been practicing on hooks and bottle openers and such. First time playing with carbon steel coil spring, didnt harden because its a butter knife haha. Overall I am happy with it, fun to work with spring steel and I can really feel the difference in the finished strength even untreated