June 16, 201214 yr so i got this 1884 Fisher blacksmith anvil today for 175.00 , should i use it like it is or try to make the edges more crisp ? and whats your thoughts on it ? i do good ? its 120 pounds...
June 16, 201214 yr You done real good. That's a good price for that anvil. Use it as is. If you find that some of the edges need cleaned up, do some VERY light work with a sanding flap disc. But I'd use it as is, without any work on the edges. :)
June 17, 201214 yr Author in this pic here, that hole side of the face is welded down the edge, is this going to make the anvil crack and brake the first time i use it ? or will i get some use out of it ? can't believe i didn't see it , but it looks to have been a long time ago and has lots of use after it was done...i know its a fisher and from what i read it cant be fixed that way do to heating the face will make it harder and more prone to crack there, and on my anvil that be the hole side !
June 18, 201214 yr Yup. Use it. :-) I can't see a repair from my iPhone. If there is a repair with lots of use since it was repaired then there's no reason to worry. Enjoy!!
June 18, 201214 yr "crisper edges" The old blacksmith books tell folks that when they get a new anvil the first thing they should do is to round the edges. So I guess you can weld up the edge and grind it crisp and then grind it back rounder to get it like it should be... Fishers can be fixed; don't know what you have been reading. There is more of a problem with them if the repairs have to bridge the steel/cast iron interface but it can be done. I would be much more afraid of problems trying to reharden a Fisher, but NOTHING that anvil needs would ever require that---unless it had been through a shop fire. As to previous repairs: if they were done right no problem, if they were done wrong, problem---how they were done---Who Knows? Which is why repaired anvils generally go for substantially less---you just don't know how they were done.
July 6, 201213 yr Author i had to, the chips and crackes where scaring me... now i dont think ill get hit with shards..
July 6, 201213 yr That anvil is a steel plate welded to a wrought iron body. How much thickness of the steel plate is left after using the grinder?
July 7, 201213 yr Author it was a flap sanding wheel i used on the top , did grind the horn and the back of the cutting table then with the sanding wheel , but the face was just to get the rust holes out very light...
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