I had an aso given to me and what I did was weld a piece of AR plate about 3/8" thick. Now the key to get this plate to stick is useing a high nickel rod, also you need to drill several holes in your plate so you can plug weld the plate to the anvil in order to draw it up tight. Then all you do is weld a little overlay rod on your plug welds and presto you have a very good useable anvil. My 8 year old son uses this anvil for everything including a little smithing and it has held up great and he even has almost taken out an eye from missing his work piece and striking the anvil, it bounced back and got him right in his safty glasses. So I guess if there is a will there is a way.