FlatLiner

Welcome from Utah.

I found that the steel tripod stand with silicone under the anvil quieted my Sisco but the ring still gets more pronounced the further out on the horn or tail you go. But overall it is much nicer to work on.

Make a bick to go in the hardy hole if you need a smaller diameter hole.

I also watched the review. That is the only negative review I have ever seen about Holland Anvils. He is nit picking details. I have two 100 year + cast anvils. Both have casting imperfections, hardy hole imperfections etc. Both are top tier anvils. If he was a half decent black smith to begin with he wouldn't of needed to drill a pritchel hole. He could of made a bolster plate and whats with wanting free merchandise like a t shirt or stickers??? Be happy you got a new top tier anvil for a decent price.

How in the world did the French punch or cast the side hardy hole? Those who have a French anvil, Do you prefer the side hardy hole over the location in an English style anvil or German style anvil?

Welcome Lior.

Where are you from originally Lior?

Awesome knife templehound. 

Pault17 I really like your frankenanvil.

Here is my set up. I use a furnace exhaust fan that you see in one of the pics. I had it necked down to 1" when I was using a hair dryer and I was able to forge weld with it like that, but as soon as I got the bigger fan I had to neck up the burner to get a stable flame.

My forced air burner I necked down from 1 1/2" to 1 1/4" if I neck it down any further then it has a hard time holding a stable flame until the forge is up to temperature. I've never had an issue with the flame crawling back up the burner on a forced air burner, with the positive air pressure I would think that it would be nearly impossible but others might know more than me about that.

Just because it made it to the USA doesn't mean that it went through a fire. It most likely is a good anvil. Just do a hammer and ring test on it.

It looks like you are necking a 2" pipe down to a 1" pipe. In my experience when you neck down a blown burner so drastically you have a hard time getting a stable flame because it likes to blow off the end of your burner. Try shortening your air pipe, you only need it half as long as what you have. Cut your 90⁰ bends down to two, you don't need any more than two. If your necking down a 2" pipe only neck it down to 1 3/4" or 1 1/2" or leave it un necked down. It it's a 1 1/2" pipe only neck it down to 1 1/4"  or leave it un necked down.

Thomas your block anvil looks similar to my block anvil. I just have mine oriented the other way. It is the companion anvil to my Sisco anvil. I use it if I need "good" edges for set downs etc.

It's interesting to hear the differences in forging methodology, purposes and how to use the anvil differently between countries and what is being forged.

This discussion is interesting and I have no experience on a German anvils but I truthfully don't see how and for what you need sharp edges on an anvil. If those edges arn't sharp enough and you need an anvil block with sharper edges than my 100+ year old Sisco is well worn out by your standards.

That's the first time I have ever heard that you want the sharp edges as long as possible in an anvil.

Both anvils are beautiful and a couple of my favorite looking anvils.

Mounted vertical you essentialy have a Japanese style anvil

I tried mounting something similar in length horizontal, I rarely if ever used the full length so I ended up mounting it vertical and have liked it more that way.

Very interesting and informative.

Probably a carriage makers anvil that the side clip was broken or cut off at some point

Brooks anvils are too tier. I've wanted to find one to compare to my current anvils. I really like the thicker heel on them. I've never broken a heel off but the thicker heel would make me feel better.

Looks more like a Brooks or Vaughn to me. Sisco never put dates on their anvils and the last pic looks like it has a date of 194? The overall shape doesn't look like my Sisco and Siscos were only imported a few years early in the 1900's unless it's a weight stamp. Use the flower trick to see if you can make out more of the stamp.

You can always make hardy tools as a work around right now. You can make an anvil saddle out of a piece of tool steel. Here is one I made out of a 1 1/2" thick piece of forklift tine. While you look for some kind of alternative.