David Michael

Thank you all very much for the feedback. I have another anvil (also been in my family for 2 generations) but it is in awful condition. I have a piece of railroad track that I used when I first started smithing that is much better than it. I have not forged on the PW yet, I am waiting until this school's semester is over. I am one of the dreaded university history professors, dun dun dun! However, I assure you, I am not the "typical" professor either (more like the opposite.) Anyways, Marc1, your point is well taken on the price system. Do I sense a fellow Austrian economist? It is not often that I see others talk accurately about the price system in a free market. Alas, the "value" is indeed a subjective value, as it should be in a free market. Nobody Special, thank you for the suggestion on deadening the ring. I am 33 years old, and I have lost about 20% hearing in my left ear and tinnitus in both, compliments of the Taliban and RPG's. Side not, I have (had them, I cant find them now) some earplugs that are also headphones that work magnificently, PW Sound I think is the brand name. In sum, I will treat my anvil with the respect it deserves (and out of respect to my forbearers) and hopefully my oldest son (he is nine) will take it when he is of age. He loves to work with me in the forge, and watches Forged in Fire in his spare time.

I haven't posted here in a very long time, but I recently got a Peter Wright anvil (it was willed to me.) It was my great grandfathers, and he used it for shoeing the horses and apparently as a counterweight on his tractor! The pics I have posted below is how it looked when I brought it into my shop, and then after I cleaned it up. It is amazing what a wire wheel, emory cloth, wet/dry sandpaper, Liquid Wrench, and WD-40 can do. The anvil is gorgeous and rings like the liberty bell. Based upon the other posts I have read about Peter Wright's anvils, it would appear this is a pre-1900 model. It weighs approximately 158 pounds, though I doubt the scale is very accurate, it always says I weight more than I really do ;-) Are all PW anvils wrought iron? In other words, do some have a separate piece of steel welded to the top? Lastly, I have no intention of selling it due to the immense sentimental value attached to it (and the fact that I forge regularly and its the best anvil I have ever had) but for its own sake, how much do you all think this is worth? I live in rural Missouri if that helps. Are these anvils rare? How do they compare to the revered Hay Budden anvils? B4D0EC20-3A19-4056-89B7-9FD4A9FDE1B6.heic9648A7D0-9052-46F0-B95F-C9753E9F548E.heic 9563F2A6-2326-43CA-B641-1260C44298F6.heic BA3C77D5-9A0E-4613-95F1-3F6786A5091F.heic B4D0EC20-3A19-4056-89B7-9FD4A9FDE1B6.heic 9648A7D0-9052-46F0-B95F-C9753E9F548E.heic