Alright, For my grad present, I went to my local scrapyard and bought myself 150# of steel. I'm going to make myself an anvil. I don't think it's any kind of alloy. As far as I know, this isn't some special alloy of some kind, it's relatively soft, but it still has decent rebound already.
As for the layout, I figured I want to make something I can't buy. I really like the german and french hornless styles. So here's what I came up with as a design.
So what I'm asking is.
What would you suggest for methods of cutting this shape out? or would you suggest welding the pieces ont