264booking@gmail.com Posted November 11, 2016 Share Posted November 11, 2016 Hay Budden 150lb And...my Peter Wright 109lb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SReynolds Posted November 14, 2016 Share Posted November 14, 2016 Neighbor located this. I bought it just to say I have a mouse hole. Cleaning it up with a DA and a coat of oil. I may choose to use it a bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted November 14, 2016 Share Posted November 14, 2016 I don't think I could own an anvil and not use it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted November 14, 2016 Share Posted November 14, 2016 Difference between a user and a collector and some folks can even slide into the "hoarder" category. Think about folks and old cars: some will NEVER drive their restored cars, others want to show them off every weekend. I have a number of anvils; but try to get them all used on a regular basis as I hate to hear them whimpering at night from not having any hot steel worked on them. Helps if you teach as I like to have no more than 2 students per anvil to avoid anvil contention with red hot steel in the mix. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C-1ToolSteel Posted November 14, 2016 Share Posted November 14, 2016 Thomas, that is noble of you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notownkid Posted December 2, 2016 Share Posted December 2, 2016 While looking in my collection of pictures on this computer I ran across this picture of an anvil I saw at a Hammer in at a RR museum in Mass a few yrs. ago I know this will raise the dander of many here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C-1ToolSteel Posted December 2, 2016 Share Posted December 2, 2016 Never seen one like that before. Must be a Swedish thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted December 2, 2016 Share Posted December 2, 2016 I like the two level stump; but yes that anvil does need to be mounted to the stump better... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted December 2, 2016 Share Posted December 2, 2016 Needs to get those tongs off the ground. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notownkid Posted December 3, 2016 Share Posted December 3, 2016 I'm surprised no comment on it being painted even if it is the flag Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted December 3, 2016 Share Posted December 3, 2016 It wasn't flagged for comment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted December 3, 2016 Share Posted December 3, 2016 Anvil belongs to the owner; painting it is only a momentary thing in it's lifespan and doesn't do any long term damage. Now personally I don't like the smell of burning paint when working hot steel on all sides of the anvil; but de gustibus... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted December 3, 2016 Share Posted December 3, 2016 One might argue that painting the flag on something that's going to be subject to hammer blows and glowing hot metal is a violation of both the letter and the spirit of the flag code. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted December 3, 2016 Share Posted December 3, 2016 On the other hand it's not the US flag; only "flag like". I'm more concerned about stores that fly the flag and allow it to become tattered showing that they are just using it for commercial reasons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted December 3, 2016 Share Posted December 3, 2016 Or American flags on paper plates and napkins, which are designed to be thrown away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted December 3, 2016 Share Posted December 3, 2016 Remember Abbie Hoffman, a 60's radical, that was arrested for wearing a shirt that looked like a flag? And now you can buy them at wally world around July 4th. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted December 3, 2016 Share Posted December 3, 2016 It needs stars in the blue field to actually be The Flag. Still I don't mind a good representation and having it displayed on the heart and soul of a blacksmith's shop is a good thing. I have to agree with Thomas, I don't like the smell of burning paint either but epoxy paint doesn't burn as easily nor smell as bad. Powder coat? The more I think about it the more I feel representing the American Flag on your anvil is honorable. Like I already said the anvil is the heart and soul of the shop and so what if it gets scarred up. Hasn't our nation taken it's lumps, don't we bear scars, haven't we kept going? Heck I'm starting to think an anvil is a near perfect place for The Flag, let us be the anvil the world can beat itself on to forge a better world. I'm not saying we're perfect (HAH!) I'm saying we're not a bad thing to mimic. End patriotic yak and I'm not dissing anyone else. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted December 3, 2016 Share Posted December 3, 2016 Hmmm...since I have an English anvil, maybe I should paint it with the Union Jack.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkoobyNewb Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 Plan on getting it professionally resurfaced to fix that missing chunk and the various dings on the face. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 8 minutes ago, SkoobyNewb said: Plan on getting it professionally resurfaced to fix that missing chunk and the various dings on the face. Skooby, there is only so much hardened top plate on that anvil. Resurfacing it is taking usability and life Out of it. How long have you used it as is? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkoobyNewb Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 3 minutes ago, Daswulf said: Skooby, there is only so much hardened top plate on that anvil. Resurfacing it is taking usability and life Out of it. How long have you used it as is? Got it in the spring, the guys at NEBA said it wouldn't be bad to resurface and that its an industrial anvil shipped over from a large shop in England at around 200 years old or so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 I was assuming he planned to get it resurfaced by building it up rather then by milling or grinding it down; it's the only way that makes sense after all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkoobyNewb Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 2 minutes ago, ThomasPowers said: I was assuming he planned to get it resurfaced by building it up rather then by milling or grinding it down; it's the only way that makes sense after all. Yes, I was told that there are specific welding sticks that work great for exactly this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 Research Robb Gunter's method; I've been to a couple of Anvil Repair Days put on by ABANA Affiliates that used it. Do not use abrasion resistant hard facing rods that spiderweb anvil faces are impact zones not abrasion zones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 Unless the welder tells you exactly what kind of rod and prep work he's using I'd pass. There's plenty of life left in that old girl as she is. You do NOT need those edges, there are plenty left. I've heard a LOT of high end professional welders say 7018 would work to repair an anvil. Just because someone is a certified welder doesn't mean they know this particular job. Welding up the face of an anvil is NOT a trivial matter, takes proper pre and post operations to do correctly. Read up on Mr. Gunter's method till you know it by heart. THEN ask the fellow you know how he's going to do it and keep your trap shut. Let him talk and see what he knows BEFORE you let him screw with your anvil. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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