Boneyjoe

Thank you pretty excited about it the Anvil, Vise and large box of files all came from a 4th generation welding shop that made everything from car batteries to their owns acetylene through the depression , World War II, all the way up to a few years ago when the last owner passed away there's just so much history in this old anvil if only it could talk. Now the young man that has it @finches_forge gets to help the family celebrate by making a set of knives from the old industrial files that came with it. Eric Finch spent last week cleaning and polishing the old Anvil with wire brushes and wire wheels I will keep you all updated.

Thanks for all the great information we passed it along to a young knife maker in my area @finchs_forge  Christmas came very early for him we included a large box of really big industrial files and a massive 10 inch Vise he's going to make each of the family members a Custom Knife from the old files

14 hours ago, Chelonian said:

Given the slight gap on the bottom (meaning it's not one piece), my guess is the horn broke off, and someone bored a hole into the end of the horn and jammed that extra piece in as a replacement.

I agree after closer inspection not really sure how one would go about boring a hole in something this hard I know anything would be possible but to drill with an inch and a half or inch and 3/4 hole in an anvil this solid would be no small undertaking..

On 12/1/2019 at 4:15 PM, FlatLiner said:

I wonder if the horn broke off and they ground down part of what was left so they could have a small bick.

I guess that's possible but the lines are so clean really seems to have been built like that. I think it's a soderfor 

I guess that's possible but the lines are so clean really seems to have been built like that. I think it's a soderfor 

Just came into possession of a really nice hundred and sixty-eight lb Swedish anvil but it has a very unusual horn unlike anything I've seen before can't really find anything like it online. Would love some input from anyone that knows