How do you work in there? There is absolutely nothing on the floor! I mean it is clean, I mean CLEAN. Just what kind of smith are you?LOL Nice looking shop and set of tooling.

HI ALL !!!
Here is my demo anvil, stand with tools etc.
Always lots of fun when I use this one:)

My 200 lb Trenton

Here is my anvil, a little home made one 155lbs without the "horn", about 170 - 180 with the horn.

heres my big 142kg anvil from 1905 will be used as a main anvil in my new shop i am building.

i did a cut in rule in it


DC

Spears, it sure looks good, a bit like old scandinavian anvils. Hope it works as good as well :-).
Dennis G, I like your removable side horn idea. Some old French anvils had such a (fixed) horn. Doesn't the horn move too much when you work on it? Or can you lock it in place?

Doesn't the horn move too much when you work on it? Or can you lock it in place?

Not at all, the square holes were made slightly smaller then the tubing I used on the horn. All I had to do was sand the sides down so it slid in to each one. No movement at all.

well here is my anvil i have no idea what it is or how old it is it had a big chunck out of the corner of the face i rewelded it up with some 7018 rod i preheated it before hand but i think i made a mistake and refaced it with a horizontal mill but it works for me

man i think that's a mousehole, because i have the exact same anvil sitting in my garage and have been trying to figure out what it is. Thomas Powers says no pritchel hole: probably pre 1820.

Edited November 16, 200916 yr by MarkC

cool thanks im glad im not the only on that that has a realy realy beat up anvil:)

508 lb peter wright

I have a 514lb Peter Wright that I am very pleased with great anvils!!!! Shawn

508 lb peter wright

Nice anvil!!! I have a 514lb Peter Wright very nice anvils Thanks, Shawn

Nice anvil!!! I have a 514lb Peter Wright very nice anvils Thanks, Shawn

iv got a 186LBS PW got it for $300 great condition

Hello all,

I have a 250 lb Soderfors, and a 186 lb Peter Wright, I like them both very much, still just getting started and setting up shop collecting tools.


thanks, Jeff from Iowa

So I mentioned a while back that I was planning on doing some repairs on my 455 pound Peter Wright that I picked up about 3 months ago.

Before:


After:


It's not perfect as we didn't have the time to fill every single minute nick in the face. Some of them I thought would polish out, but I decided not to grind on it too much, so some of the small nicks remain. I figure considering how basic my skills are, I don't need anything that has fewer flaws than I do. I guess I could have left the face untouched and full of divots and it would still have fewer flaws than me...

The biggest improvement we made was to rebuild the heavily rounded edge on the far side. My welders are one of my structural steel suppliers. They provided the Messer MG740 rods and provided a journeyman welder (about 8 hours of shop time), the welding equipment and the oxy/acetlylene setup (preheating), all for free of charge. They just want me to forge them something in return.

I would like to give my thanks to Maddog and Mr. Junior Strasil. I contacted Maddog after he gave his input in an avil repair thread. He referenced me to Mr. Strasil who graciously provided his blueprint on anvil repair and answered any additional questions that I had.

So I mentioned a while back that I was planning on doing some repairs on my 455 pound Peter Wright that I picked up about 3 months ago.

Before:


After:


It's not perfect as we didn't have the time to fill every single minute nick in the face. Some of them I thought would polish out, but I decided not to grind on it too much, so some of the small nicks remain. I figure considering how basic my skills are, I don't need anything that has fewer flaws than I do. I guess I could have left the face untouched and full of divots and it would still have fewer flaws than me...

The biggest improvement we made was to rebuild the heavily rounded edge on the far side. My welders are one of my structural steel suppliers. They provided the Messer MG740 rods and provided a journeyman welder (about 8 hours of shop time), the welding equipment and the oxy/acetlylene setup (preheating), all for free of charge. They just want me to forge them something in return.

I would like to give my thanks to Maddog and Mr. Junior Strasil. I contacted Maddog after he gave his input in an avil repair thread. He referenced me to Mr. Strasil who graciously provided his blueprint on anvil repair and answered any additional questions that I had.

Nice Job sask mark

Refflinghaus
1245 lbs

Refflinghaus
1245 lbs

It looks like you can land fighter jets on that thing...

Here are my anvils: an 88 pound Henry Wright and a 25 pound homemade mild steel striking anvil

These are mine;

385 lb Hay Buden

130 lb Lakeside

168 lb Wilkinson

200 lb cast Mexico

85 lb cast unknown

My shop anvil is the 206lb Peter Wright anvil. The other one is my 125lb Hay Budden show anvil, but it gets used too. Both are rebuilds. My 25lb Little Giant was completely rebuilt by me.

Here are my anvils ...

-a 90lb Mousehole
-a 120lb Peter Wright
-a 175lb Peter Wright
-a 300lb H.Boker
-my home-build 20lb mild steel block anvil
-newest one ... 50lb cast iron ASO (only paid $65.00)

-the last photo is a cast steel Vaughan anvil - 100lbs
technically it's not mine, it belongs to my school shop, but when I leave the school I'm going to make an offer to buy it

Sam

Here's my 120# Hay Budden. I couldn't find my little jewelry anvil (ASO) and I'm not sure what that weighs.

Here are my anvils: an 88 pound Henry Wright and a 25 pound homemade mild steel striking anvil

brian, what it the height of your striking anvil?