June 17, 20169 yr 17 hours ago, ThomasPowers said: Plaid of course! Yikes. Big tartan eyesore is not quite what I have in mind for my shop.
June 17, 20169 yr 1 minute ago, Soupyjones said: Yikes. Big tartan eyesore is not quite what I have in mind for my shop. "Big Tartan Eyesore" will be the name of my next band.
June 17, 20169 yr 4 minutes ago, JHCC said: "Big Tartan Eyesore" will be the name of my next band. Now with extra bagpipe! Might want to get cash up front for your first gig.
June 17, 20169 yr Well I could have suggested that you flock your anvil....Happiness is a warm fuzzy anvil! (Hmm if you magnetize it it will get fuzzy with use and warm after a day of heavy forging...)
June 17, 20169 yr Well you certainly got me there. Truth be told it was given to me right after it was made. It is only eight years old and has always been inside. The idea of painting it still scares me a bit
June 17, 20169 yr 1 hour ago, Soupyjones said: Well you certainly got me there. Truth be told it was given to me right after it was made. It is only eight years old and has always been inside. The idea of painting it still scares me a bit Invite the neighborhood kids in and tell them NOT to paint it. Finger paint would be unique, maybe even cool. Rig the bagpipes to the exhaust port of a modern utility hammer for neighbors who complain. There's an Alaskan smith on one of the islands who has been salvaging boilers and steam hammers for decades. A developer bought acreage adjoining him built a subdivision and immediately started complaining about the steam hammers. The city, then the Island/borough and finally State told them they had no case the hammers were there and working long before they built. The tactics turned into nuisance complaints at all hours. Rather than file suit for harassment he rigged steam whistles to the exhaust ports on his steam hammers. I understand everybody within a few miles knows when they're in use. At least they have a legitimate reason to complain now. It's your anvil, paint or not I want pics. Frosty The Lucky.
June 17, 20169 yr 8 minutes ago, Frosty said: Invite the neighborhood kids in and tell them NOT to paint it. Finger paint would be unique, maybe even cool. Rig the bagpipes to the exhaust port of a modern utility hammer for neighbors who complain. There's an Alaskan smith on one of the islands who has been salvaging boilers and steam hammers for decades. A developer bought acreage adjoining him built a subdivision and immediately started complaining about the steam hammers. The city, then the Island/borough and finally State told them they had no case the hammers were there and working long before they built. The tactics turned into nuisance complaints at all hours. Rather than file suit for harassment he rigged steam whistles to the exhaust ports on his steam hammers. I understand everybody within a few miles knows when they're in use. At least they have a legitimate reason to complain now. It's your anvil, paint or not I want pics. Frosty The Lucky. Always loved steam whistles myself.
June 17, 20169 yr He never would send me a recording, the lighter hammers cycled much faster than the 1&2 ton hammers. The 100lb. hammers don't rattle the dishes in your cabinets though but I suppose a steam whistle cycling what 150-200 toots/min. would make up for no ripples on your coffee. If Deb and I ever get to the Island I'm sure he won't be hard to look up. Frosty The Lucky.
June 26, 20169 yr Found a section of rail on a duck hunting trip. Turned it into a lovely little anvil.
June 27, 20169 yr On 6/26/2016 at 0:25 AM, Ed Hagopian said: Found a section of rail on a duck hunting trip. Turned it into a lovely little anvil. How did you manage to cut out the hardy hole, looks very nice!
June 27, 20169 yr Drilled with normal HSS and then I happened to have access to a Bridgeport endmill where I squared the sides as best I could. It fits rail spikes pretty well so that's what I'm using to weld hardy tools to.
June 27, 20169 yr Nice looking little anvil. You can drill the flange as well and screw it directly to the stand, it'll be a little more secure. You were able to drill the hole to pilot the hardy because whoever ground the contact surface to make a flat face ground through the induction and work hardened surface. I don't know of a way to reliably harden and temper the rail without running some risk. "The Complete Modern Blacksmith" by Alexander Weygers has a prety complete section on using rail for anvils and includes good instructions for heat treating it. Frosty The Lucky.
June 28, 20169 yr I was worried about losing the hardness too but honestly in the month I've been working with it, it's been absolutely solid. I was prepared to harden it but so far I haven't found a reason to. I don't know if it came out of the fact of its heavy use or what but the machinist that ground down the face said he came to the conclusion that the two hardest substances he knew of was carbide and whatever the hell this was. I have TCMB it's a great book and I recommend it to anyone looking to start.
June 30, 20169 yr My uncle just showed up one day last year and dropped this Anvil off along with a 200lb vise. He had given me the chunk of rail a couple years back, and I purchased the ASO when I first started banging metal. Viking
June 30, 20169 yr 9 minutes ago, JHCC said: That's a good uncle. I could't agree more! Along with the anvil and vise I also got a bunch of old tools for handling large stock, I guess he got it all off of an old railroad man.
July 14, 20169 yr Greetings everybody, I signed up here several years ago and haven't been involved much, but now I'm back. I got this at an auction yesterday. It is covered in several layers of paint that I'll be working to remove over the next few days. I have no idea what it is, yet. I have found a couple 2's stamped by the tong holes under the horn. These are the auction listing photos, I'll post more up as I get it cleaned up. A bit of history on this. This was the mechanic's anvil when I hired onto the fire department 23 years ago, I have no idea how long it has been here. I'd always hoped I'd get the chance to own it, now I do. It has been sitting in storage for several years and I never saw it get used much before that.
July 14, 20169 yr Thank You. Iv'e got some 6" x 12" white oak I'm thinking about making a base out of.
July 15, 20169 yr Here's what I have figured out so far. It's a Hay Budden and the SN is 15900. I didn't get much in the way of cleaning done today, but will keep working at it.
July 17, 20169 yr Got some more cleaning done with pictures. Under the name (1st pic) it appears to have '158' stamped in it. The rest of the numbers showed up fairly good in the rest of the pics. Now I'm off to decipher numbers.
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