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well, there`s an itch which that won`t go away... I hope you get it sorted with the brother in law. Luckily most anvils will looks good in the shed.

Frosty, Don`t have a clue what you`re talking about in the first half of your last reply, but I don`t doubt your good intentions for a second... I don`t feel the need to pressure shape sheet metal, but if I do perhaps one day , I`ll make sure I know what the heck I`m doing. Maybe I`ll try explosion shaping first. I like the sound of that! just kidding...

yea yea sure, I hear ya Frosty. I`m making sheetmetal art, car and bike parts, 16-19 gauge. I `m not sure what you want to inflate at 10000 psi but I guess you could come close to building a submarine that way. You ask me if I inflated the part , I said no and now we`re here. I have no intention of playing with dangerous crap I have no knowledge of. I know liquid pressure cuts like knifes , I klow anything under a hammer or powerhammer can chip and kill you as well. My hammer had a sign on it. "engage brain before use" I guess that goes for all dangerous sh!t we do in this business. I hope you liked the fish.

Anything high energy is potentially dangerous. I would think when inflating sheetmetal with water, in case of weld failure it would splash and get your socks wet. It case of air it would boom , ruin your hair-do an cause a whisle in the ears... I like shaping with hammers and their relatives a lot better.

I was too. The body of the fish I made on the wheeling machine / english wheel. Only one half. Made some fish to hang on the wall. The head and contour were forged. Pressure shaping wth air is very dangerous, with water pressure not so much. I made the knife years ago... can`t seem to find more pics of it...

It is wheeled

I love books. I grew up in a bookshop... My grandfather and his brother, my father and his brother... I started swinging hammers...

there you go...

cleaned up really nice.

BBQ`d a fish today.

I wouldn`t be lost without my engine hoist and I wouldn`t state it`s worth its weight in gold, but it sure is somewhere inbetween...

hahaha that about sums it up...

yes, I know, but both ingredients not available in my shop today... It will come apart in the end... frozen bolts or not Most times I try the friendly way first. I`ve got plenty vises, but I really like the looks of this model.

I came across an add for this old Peter Wright vise. @ 25 bucks and 2miles from home I couldn`t pass on it. Still moves and the spindle looks ok-ish as far as I can see. It`s floating in wd40 now, so it can start to consider cooperation in the near future... ...to be continued...

Nice! I`m having a hard time saying no to old vises ,but I`m also having a hard time giving more vises a place in my shop.... How many can one need...

I can`t remember what exactly... either round to square or square to round or something horseshoe related. I do remember massive blisters.

I picked up this beauty yesterday. PFPeddinghaus 119lbs. Looks to be the factory paint on it still.

Anyone on here have one of these? I bought this press a few years ago. It sat outside for many years and had some issues to be dealt with. Although the manufacurer is still in business today , I have not seen another one like this... thought you might like it. I did contact Schuler and got a reply with some info. Apparently there were 5 different types with 40, 50, 60, 72 and 80mm spindle. Mine has the 72mm. They were built between 1920 and 1935. I started to make some tooling for it but I really need to spend more time on that.

cool...

both will burn. If you don`t like it , make firewood and start over. imo if the shop floor is dry, it won`t make too much difference. Rot has been one reason my previous wood stands were replaced. Personally I like heavy stands ( not if you need to move the anvil a lot) Oak would be my choice, but i use steel nowadays.

thanks, yea I like working on it too. When I built it , I thought the feet could potentially be annoying but to me they provide a kind of stable contact position to work from. Although it looks like a tripod, it does have a pretty large floor surface and tends to wiggle a little when the concrete is not totally flat. I use a small wedge to kick in the slotts under the feet if needed. I could use an adjustment bolt but I guess that would really be something to trip over... This one is a tad high for sledgehammer work. I think I`ll build another set up which will be a couple inches lower.

my main go to vise. Sand filled stand. ...and my smallest vise. my main go to vise. Sand filled stand.

He who dies with the most toys wins...

yes, agreed... I`ve seen that on more Stourbridge anvils but what does it mean?

wow. how is that even possible...