Ronin66

What is welp attached?

thanks everyone I’ll be keeping that in mind when I have my home forge up and running, luckily I shall be learning my basics at a proper forge

Certainly hasn’t been milled, there’s a waviness to all the sides but some definitive striations from a grinder, I just joined my local Blacksmith’s association so I’ll be bringing it in one day for them to take a look at, but I’ll just be practicing at the shop so I won’t be needing to use mine for sometime which gives me plenty of time to get a feel for how I’ll want my anvil to be when it comes to that time

yes it is

Granted I would have loved to pay less, however I found several anvils available with a lower price, but there would then be shipping and really nothing I found was this good of quality, and the funny part is the guy I bought it from is now hiring me to do some garage door installs for him so I’ll be making a good chunk of it back but yes very happy to have this anvil

Rebound came back at 85% and sounds beautiful, paid 900 for it but it was a 10 minute drive from my house so I think it wasn’t overly expensive

so I got my first anvil which is that one big step toward my final set up, I’ve gone through this feed and looked at all the other arm and hammer ones and I think I have scored a good one, curious to know about the serial number, does any of it state the year it was made or is it simply the 36651st anvil made by columbus

So I’m just getting into blade smithing, building a forge have the anvil (early 1900’s arm and hammer by Columbus) building a belt grinder and have collected a decent amount of scrap metal, some of which is a set of old .375 wire gate door springs that are about 70 years old, does any one here have experience using metal from garage door springs at all?