tzonoqua Posted May 8, 2012 Share Posted May 8, 2012 Interesting, unusual anvil, too bad it's in cumbria! I've seen another one of these on ebay recently, anyone know what it's for?http://www.ebay.co.u...2#ht_500wt_1069 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted May 8, 2012 Share Posted May 8, 2012 It's an industrial anvil where they used specialty inserts for a specific job. Especially common in the Sheffield knifemaking shops as I recall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tzonoqua Posted May 8, 2012 Author Share Posted May 8, 2012 Stewart, I nearly bought a blacker hammer before but it didn't have an anvil like that, and in those pics the blacker anvil has a step on one side, but not big grooves on the face like that. Whatever it is, I've never seen one like it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted May 8, 2012 Share Posted May 8, 2012 I own a blacker powerhammer anvil (and used to own a hammer as well) The original anvil is not anything like the ones I have seen. The Blacker anvil has one cut out on one side to allow the edges of the hammer and the anvil to align exactly and has two large, (mine are 1.5" sq) hardy holes at opposing ends of the face. Stewart; how do you figure it's a Blacker as it's totally different from the one you posted as "here is a picture of hammer and anvil together"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tzonoqua Posted May 8, 2012 Author Share Posted May 8, 2012 I can see it more being used for knifemaking-or cutlery those grooves straight across the face would be really useful for hammering along, getting nice straight lines in, and the slightly 'sloping' groove, i can see how that could be utilized, I think this would be a great anvil for that purpose! I just like the look of it!! The big hardy hole seems perfect for stake tools as well. If it were closer I'd jump on it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted May 8, 2012 Share Posted May 8, 2012 Nope not used that way but look at all the integral bolsters on commercial knives of yesteryear. being able to mount the swages to make them as part of the anvil sped things up in commercial practice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tzonoqua Posted May 8, 2012 Author Share Posted May 8, 2012 so dies or swages would be slotted into the slots? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted May 8, 2012 Share Posted May 8, 2012 Yes, here's an example in use Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bentiron1946 Posted May 8, 2012 Share Posted May 8, 2012 A few years ago I think Grant posted a picture of an anvil like the one you show in the original eBay picture at the beginning with a tool in the slot and a tool in the big hardy hole under a good sized power hammer. It seems that they had a wide variety of tooling to fit anvils similar to this one. It may have been in Grant's extremely long post on his development of his anvil with all of the dovetail inserts, remember that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tzonoqua Posted May 9, 2012 Author Share Posted May 9, 2012 Yes, well, what can I say, I imagined how to use that anvil, or rather how I would use that anvil, lol, I am obviously not a knifemaker. Neat video, quenching in whale oil eh!! It would drive me nuts to have so much scale all over my anvil! Bentiron, I missed that post somehow... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian.pierson Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 Colleen, Thanks for sharing the anvil picture. It is cool to see something like that as we get something like that on a regular basis. They have been less commercial production than individual configured. Thomas, This is the first one I have seen with a sloped section. Chisel production over knife maybe? Maybe I am just looking at it wrong. Brian Pierson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 It does look a bit like the bottom have of a jackhammer bit repointer. What I noticed is that there doesn't seem to be a good place to actually work on the face of the anvil and so I think they intended all the work to be done in the inserts and or that sloped region. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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