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You are an extreamly talented bladesmith JHP.

Interesting test Bart. I have been wondering the same thing, new vs old, cast steel vs wrought iron with a forge welded face. But I only have a couple century old cast steel anvils. They are quite small compared to yours :-) 125 lbs, and 130 lbs.

JHP, Is there any particular place you like to buy your steel from?

Beautiful knife.

Very nice build. I'm interested in seeing how your brick burners hold up.

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What anvil did you buy Rojo Pedro?

My anvil stopped walking around on me when I got rid of the stump and built a steel tripod stand. Used anvil prices are ridiculous. That's also why I have been looking at new anvils. I'm also not a fan of the side shelf. I prefer my anvils without one. As to the papa rino anvil I'm not a fan of both horn shapes and the shelf. I love the look of the classic north and south German anvils. I don't mind the nimbas shao either But that's just me. To each their own.

I've never been a fan of the papa rino's overall shape. I second the nimba comment Thomas. I drool over dreaming about getting a nimba anvil lol. But would I buy one new? Not right now. New I would go with Holland or Hoffman, h13 double horn 100 lb+ anvil. Truthfully most of us don't have the need for a 300 lb+ anvil, it's just the cool factor.

I have three london pattern anvils. The smallest at 45 lbs is truncated, the heel was broken off. My boys have used a 16lb sledge on it with no detriment to the anvil. I have three diy anvils that I use for my heavy sledging. One is a 5" x5" x7" block of annealed s7 at 65 lbs, anouther is a 5" x20" round hydraulic hammer head from an oil drill about 120 lbs s5 steel, the final one is two forks off a forklift that have been cut and welded back to back its dimensions are 4"x 8"x25" weighing in at about 230 lbs they are supposed to be 4140 or 4340 or something similar. They all move metal without difficulty. I paid less for all of my diy anvils put together then I did for one of my london pattern anvils.

You could ditch the dimmer switch and unblock the air intake if you do something similar to what I have done. I have a furnace exhaust fan that pushes up to 500 cfm so I put a t in-between the airgate and the blower so that when I turn down the air the excess air is exhausted out the open t.

You can't go wrong with a Swedish anvil. I love my Soderfors. It moves steel like a heavier anvil. I can't explain why but everyone who has tried it makes similar comments.

Beautiful, I'm jealous.

I really enjoy these videos. Keep up the good work.

I got tired of the uneven stumps I had been using as anvil stands so I cobbled together some steel tripod stands from scraps I had laying around. Before and after.

I rounded off the edges of one of my anvils only because the saw thooth edges of my anvil weren't condusive to what I was doing. My anvil had been used for cold shoeing horses. Now I have found alot of uses for them. I would of preferred to have better edges but I couldn't work with it as it was. I just sourced a block of S7 steel with good edges for the times I needed a "sharper" edge. Since then I have found another anvil with some better edges. It now sits next to the first. I use them both.

I found you and followed you Deimos. I am found under black thistle arms on instagram and black thistle forge on youtube. I haven't posted much yet.

That is a pretty cool detail. I find small details like that interesting. Someday I would like to find a heavier anvil for my inventory. But I make due just fine with what I have.

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I really like sawyer anvils. Are you thinking of buying it?

I used a file to get weld spatter off the face. The file cuts through the spatter and skates on the face :-)

Nicely done.

Awsome like usual.

Hit up Jimmy Hoffman he is on here, he also has a web page. I use his plans and it works great. His blown burner and forge plans have been in blacksmith publications. I have a PDF copy somewhere. If I find it I'll pm you.

Nice anvil, I'm jealous :-)