Rogue Hammer

I believe you are referring to Roger Freeborn. Roger shod horses in the Rogue Valley for many years along with teaching farrier science at RCC. When he retired he started making farrier and blacksmith tools. I have a few pair of his box joint tools. Roger has since passed and I am afraid that a wealth of knowledge and skill went with him.

Goods, I'm in Southern Idaho. All good ideas I guess I never considered welding to it. I was thinking about tapping all thread and bolting. Now you all have me out on the scrounge.

I'm new here have been a farrier for 30 years. Retired too young but still enjoy working hot metal. While I have spent a ton of time working iron I am still amazed at the abilities of a smith. Anyway all that aside for now, when I changed states I sold a couple of anvils and kept two. One a future 3 anvil that is portable for farrier work. The other is the face and horn of an anvil that was given to me by my father in law. The latter I would like to make int a shop anvil and wondering if anyone here might have an idea of how to replace the base. I have thrown around the idea of milling the bottom flat then drill and tapping for studs, then either a stacked steel plate base or possibly seeing if I could just purchase an aluminum base from one of the future anvils. Any other ideas?