Kain Kelly

4 hours ago, ThomasPowers said:

Any oilfield stuff out your way?

Yes, will have to dig for where to find some. Not sure of that, but this is very much oil country.

Irondragon Thank you, I have referred to that a few times.

I understand, right now my anvil is a cast iron ASO from harbor freight. (Admittedly a mistake made trying by trying to jump in as quickly as possible.) I have a lead on some 6x6 mild steel bar I am thinking that will become my next anvil. May do a bit more digging around for some rail. I have seen 175lb crane rail around on ebay lately may or may not be worth getting. Been going back and forth on that. I do think it may be my best option.

5 minutes ago, ThomasPowers said:

Cutlers anvils were geared toward production knifemaking.

Thank you for that link, I could not figure that out. For sure makes me want one more now.

I am a newish blacksmith, I have very wide eyed ideas for projects that are very far beyond my skill set and tools available. Things like building, a cutlers anvil, a replica of my Nepalese Martini Henry with pattern welded steel. (The furthest off by far.) But for now I am sticking to far simpler projects and tool making.

When I am not working at the anvil, I almost exclusively do computer work. I am in school for cyber security and study multiple different aspects of cyber security and computer science. For me forge work and the little wood working I do is a matter of meditation more then anything else.

Still building my shop at the current moment I don't even have a covered area to work. So just and ASO heavy welding table poorly designed forge with a hair dryer blower, and a tool box. Currently moving from a Dutch Oven fire pot to box of dirt forge.

I also have a few questions admittedly I need to do more of my own research on, but I am not sure where to look. Namely I am curious about cold chisels and files in place of a milling machine and what all kinds of tooling aside from file making what was a cutlers anvil used for? Like I said I am not sure where to look really. I have dug around on a few places but didn't find much relevant to the above.