Got a 150# Fisher today

[fluidsteel]

I search CL often for anvils and blacksmith tools. Somehow I missed this one.The seller used plurals in his post and the search on my phone doesn't always find the same search results as when I search on my laptop.
I'm off work for a week for a ventral hernia repair and have been filling my time on the computer reading through all the WIP's I can find while I recover and got an e-mail from a 16 year old kid that I gave a 140# 3-1/2"x8"x16" or so piece of forklift tine to. He saw this anvil add with a few other forge items on CL. Yay!

I picked up the anvil today. 15 minutes ahead of another guy who was coming to get it....(SORRY!!) :( :unsure: .... :ph34r:

150# 1907 Fisher with the eagle on the side. 95% rebound. It's amazing that the rebound is as good as my 300# Fisher. Drop a 1" ball bearing from 15" and I only have to slightly spread my fingers to catch it on the rebound on both anvils.
The real trick was loading it without lifting it since my hernia repair isn't healed.... I managed to get the 80 year old guy to help me wheel it up the ramp into my truck. I will get it cleaned up and on a stand next week.
The edges are fair up over the waist the chipping isn't anything that cleaning them up very lightly with a grinder won't fix. The edges on the heel are very good.

I picked up a107# 1-1/2" thick plate for the base plate for the stand for my 300# Fisher and a 61# 1-1/2"x13"x13" plate for my 119# Kohlswa a week ago. I'll sell my Kohlswa now and go with a 1-2 Fisher lineup now. I have been looking for a good smaller Fisher for a year since I passed on a mint 150# Fisher for $500. I was an idiot for passing on that one, but feel I have some redemption now.

I have been going round n round about the height for my 300# as I was going to build my stand so it sat 35" high for bladesmithing, but that would have been too tall to use top tools and too tall for striking... So I've been looking for a smaller/second Fisher for a higher standing bladesmithing anvil.

Having my 150# Fisher I can mount it 35" and have the 300# closer to 32" for striking, and using top tools!!

Look, They're Buddies!!! :D



Here's my 300# 1913 Fisher. It has great edges, 95% or so rebound and an old broken horn. Looks like it lost 3-5" some time in the past. In fact, it looks like the repair marks are from cold chisels so it was like;y fixed long ago....

The other thing is I now have a good horn in addition to the stubby horn on the the 300#...



I can't wait to get my stands built and get to forging!!!!! :P :P

[VaughnT]

I don't like you anymore.

[Robert Yates]

awesome set of Anvils .

Sam

[fluidsteel]

I don't like you anymore.

There is a 135#/140# Fisher in NC right now. Javan Dempsey has it posted in the Knifemakers for sale area of Bladeforums...

[njanvilman]

Nice score. Just a bit of information about your anvil.....1907 was FISHER's biggest year of production. This resulted from good "world wide" marketing and having a good product. In my museum, I have at least 4, maybe more from that year.

[Javan C.R. Dempsey]

hey Vaughn, I do have a good 1800's Fisher for sale up here in Asheville. Cheapest (and now broken) bathroom scale in the world read 135/140lbs, but it seemed to be a bit low.

It's got a tiny bit of saddle, but a glass hard (hammer and file destroying) face.


Not sure if I'm allowed to be posting here, so pm me if you want to chat about it.

[fluidsteel]

Hephaestus came through for me. I beat a guy to this anvil by 15 minutes when I bought it last week. :ph34r: Bought it for $300. I sold my 119# Kohlswa for $250 today to the guy I beat out for this 157# beauty. I didn't tell him I swooped in on him.... But he was disappointed enough to mention it....

Turns out he's a farmer and wants an anvil for working on tractor equipment. :wacko: :blink: I hated to sell him the anvil and tried to talk him into one of my 3"x6"x16" forklift tine drops but he wanted a horn. The good news is that Kohlswa is built like a pig. It's as stout as an anvil can be. I bet if he beats on it for 20 years his kids might need to weld the edges up and that'd be it. :D He would have destroyed this Fisher if I was 15-20 minutes later getting to the guys house last week.
As it is, the Kohlswa got offered up as a sacrifice to Hephaestus. :( :(

I made my stand today. 2" sch 40 steel pipe for the legs. Picked up a 61# 1-1/2"x13"x13" piece of plate last week for my stand top plate..
I went into the shop today and welded it up. I might add sand and oil to the legs later, but as it is the stand doesn't ring....It weighs 84# and is nice and stable. I added U bolts for hammers and tongs but didn't want to add too many and have them in the way of my legs. They're easy to add later. There are 3"x6" plates at the base of the legs so I can fasten the stand to the floor at a later time.









The anvil sits 35" high. The legs are at 8 degrees off of vertical. And there's a 3/4" pipe welded as a cross brace 8" down from the top.

This is my blade smithing anvil and next week I'll make a stand for my 300# Fisher. That stand has a 1-1/2"x 20" long pear shaped plate that weighs 107#. With the stand my striking anvil will weigh around 430#. I'm planning on it being closer to 30" high so I can use top tools. I have some of Don Hanson III's W2 rounds that are 2.5" diameter and 14" long that I'll need to strike down into blade shapes...