Canoe Brand

I agree, and I was kind of bewildered by the comments in the long thread. I have a Kanca 110# anvil and have been using it for three years and i am very satisfied. I have put dings in it through my own miss-hits. I'm glad too because it shows it is the CORRECT hardness. You do not want a face as hard as your hardened face hammer. I have been a builder for 40 years and every single hardened tool comes with a warning...do not strike this to any other hardened surface, this in dangerous. As a smith working on hundreds knives and other things, i can also say that these small dings DO NOT translate into your work on a scale that ruins the usefullness of the anvil. I would suggest that anyone using a chisel(like i saw in many of the damaged pictures) use a swage block on top of your anvil with a pritchel hole of the correct size and a sacrificial face that can be used for using a chisel to cut hot steel. I think many people are using the anvil face when they should be using a sacrificial face, you will absolutely cut the face of your anvil. I was blow away by some of the comments, being fairly new to forging I knew these things from general knowledge as a carpenter. I also want to say that an anvil does not make up for poor hammer skills. Guys were saying they are using cheap Chinese hammers and that they were denting their anvil. if you are using a cheap Chinese hammer I'd like to say why? Using a cheap Chinese hammer (which may be fine by the way) is an indicator that you are willing to spend the buck on a new anvil, but not spend the bucks on and American forged hammer. Guaranteed, when you get the right hammers and use a Kanca Anvil with skill with good hammer skills, your experience will improve.