Richie B.

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Very nice! It cleaned up beautifully.

Very nice. You mention KY 68 400 mile sale. I live in East Tennessee. We try to do the 127 Hwy yard sale that runs from Michigan to Alabama. It is the 1st of part of August. We also try to go to the Nashville Flea Market a couple of times a year. I am always looking for Blacksmithing tools so it becomes a great treasure hunt.

I do appreciate all the advice. Having this resource will help me as I begin this journey. It is good to have advice from this wealth of experience.

I appreciate the feedback. Really like using the scrap wood. Having the ends a little taller to lock in the anvil is a neat trick. Still deciding on the material. I found some big blocks of maple that might be useful. Saw some good plans for metal ones too. Will let you know what I use.

I appreciate the feedback on safety concerns on building an anvil stand. I haven't quite decided which material to use but these tips are very helpful.

I appreciate the tips. I will add this to my notes.

I had a math teacher that always said "believe none of what you hear and half of what you see"

Wow. Such a cool story. Nice anvil. Great markings. Thanks for sharing. I searched my family's old smokehouse but found nothing like this. We do have an big cast iron pot. It was used pre civil war to boil soil from the cave on the family farm to get saltpeter for gunpowder. As a child, we used it to scald hogs as part of the butchering process.

Yeah. Urban legends make for good stories. I didn't know that the horn was not needed to make horseshoes. I have a lot to learn about blacksmithing. Yeah dropping it the river would have worked. My wife's great grandfather was a blacksmith. I wish that he was around to teach me. I found a local blacksmith guild that meets once a month. I am looking forward to attending some of those meeting. Thanks again for sharing your knowledge.

HI ThomasPowers, Thanks for the clarification on the missing horn. Originally, I heard the story from my high school history teacher. When I later found one without a horn on my grandma's farm which predated the Civil Wars, the story seemed true. Thanks, Richie

Beautiful anvil. Nice job on the cleanup.

Nice looking anvil. I am looking forward to cleaning up my anvil so I can reveal its secrets.

Thanks for sharing. Love the design of your stand. Will have to give it try.

Thanks for the feedback. Not sure about the flats on the top of the feet. Will put it on the bathroom scale and verify the weigh. This is my 1st anvil so i am still learning. My uncle has the old family anvil. It has the horn broken off of it. My high school history teacher said that during the civil war the horns were broken off by union troops. This kept the locals from shoeing horses and mules. Thanks again.

Hi Everyone, While on a business trip to the North East, I purchased the attached Anvil at the Elephant Flea Market in New Milford Connecticut. I got it to my East Tennessee home with some help from my friends. I don't know much about it. My dad is 85 and when it looked at it he said that it was really old. There are a few markings on it. On the foot, I see four marks together with two marks to the side of them. One side of the anvil appears to have a couple of horizonal lines and some marks which I read on the internet might be test marks Measurements are 25 1/2" tip to tip of which the top flat section is 15 1/2" and horn is 10". The base is 11" X 9 1/2". It is 10" tall. I did the one inch ball bearing drop and it averaged between 75% to 85% bounce from twelve inches. My measurements were not quite technically so the numbers could be skewed. Any idea who manufactured it and what the weight might be. I am guessing that the weight might be around 125 to 150. Long term I would like to learn to learn to make knives. Any help would be appreciated. Richie B.