SinDoc

Here are my first few goes at making something. The smaller one is just made out of junk metal I had laying around. I think it was welding rod from one of the box stores. The larger is my first try at "good" metal and is 1084 bar stock (1/8 thick 1.5" wide). Learned I was hitting it a bit too hard and at a bad angle due to those hammer marks. Still working on my general shaping ability.

Towards Billy: I was trying to find places around, but had not come across any as of yet, but in all honestly, I didn't look very hard. I don't typically go west towards Bellfontaine/Troy and such but seems I will have to make an exception. Towards Thomas: Adlai sounds familiar. I believe he runs the Central Ohio School for Metalwork or is affiliated with it in some way. I have been wanting to take one of their classes, but every time I check they are sold out . I have only lived in Marysville for about 6 years. Lived in Columbus for 10 or so. Also, as far as the hammer dressing goes, that makes sense. It had been leaving some nasty lines in some of the work I was doing. I will have to do that when I get the chance.

I unfortunately did not get around to taking more photos of it. Mechanical room in the house flooded so I was busy all weekend . I was unaware that there were anvil manufacturers from Ohio. I never expect Ohio to ever have anything of note regarding it . Towards Chelonia: What do you mean by "dress"? I know I have seen various post and such to avoid rubber gripped hammers and to favor wooden ones, but beyond that I do not know what you mean. I currently only have two. The ball peen shown, and a 4lb sledge that also has a rubber grip.

Towards Frostys response: I have been tinkering with all kinds of things lately. Mostly things I had laying around. Rebar, welding rod etc. Not really trying to make anything in particular, just practicing hammering and such. They just all happened to turn into the shape of a knife lol. I did order some 1084 that I managed to tinker on that the other night, and it moves much more differently than those other metals. Still had fun though! Towards Thomas: I think I have a ball bearing or two laying around. Ill have to look. As far as markings, when I was cleaning it up I was trying to find some to try and ID it but all I found was the 1 1 2 with the center 1 almost looking like an "I". It was a noticeably different shape than the first 1. It was stamped on the side a little off center towards the bottom. I will try to get some more pictures of it. I don't recall noticing anything on the bottom, but I wasn't looking for anything there so could have overlooked it. I will take a couple more pictures and post back. The misses very much wants to know what it is so she can claim that SHE owns a very old antique

I would say when I tried a sort of "drop" test with a hammer, if the hammer was say roughly 2 inches off, the hammer would bounce back a little over an inch. So I would say roughly 60 to 70ish% rebound. I have made a couple practice knives out of random metal just getting hammer practice and such and it felt like it was giving someone decent rebound, just not compared to what I would see when watching say, Jason Knights videos (believe that was his name). A missed strike does cause quite the ear shattering ring. Thankfully I have been working outside in an open environment (not my wooden, highly flammable shed shown in the picture )

I am a newbie who is just starting out. I received an anvil from a family member who was using it as a yard ornament. They had painted it to prevent rusting so when it was given to me, without thinking I took an angle grinder to it to remove the paint. While I did not go full dumb and used a full blown grinding disc, I still used an abrasive sanding/polishing disc. I stripped the paint off and did the rest with a wire wheel. The anvil still has (I believe) a nice ring to it and it still seems to have decent rebound. However, when watching videos of others making knives, it doesn't appear to have the same level of rebound as the anvils in various videos. Did I possibly destroy it in my innocent attempt to rid it of the paint? As far as make, I have not the slightest idea. This was found in an abandoned barn at the edge of a family members property roughly 20 years ago. I remember moving it around much easier then. O to be young again. The only markings I found were what appears to be 112, which I assume is its weight.