HWooldridge Posted August 4, 2005 Share Posted August 4, 2005 These pics are to test my abilities to resize a couple of jpgs, but they are also good examples of the setup that the Brazeal brothers used at their now famous demos. Shows that you can employ something besides an anvil shape to do very good work. They only used the little anvil's horn for turning - all forging was done on the edge of the plate. BTW, the top one is supposed to be 660 pixels and the bottom is 440. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted August 4, 2005 Share Posted August 4, 2005 Looks good to me :wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elkdoc Posted August 4, 2005 Share Posted August 4, 2005 Very nice. I like the design! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted August 4, 2005 Share Posted August 4, 2005 Looks "anvil shaped" to me---just not "London Pattern" Thomas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HWooldridge Posted August 4, 2005 Author Share Posted August 4, 2005 Might be hard to see from the picture but the first shape on the left is a butcher for setting shoulders, the next is flat, the next is a very large radius fuller and the far right is a smaller more aggressive fuller. Almost everything they did was on the middle fuller and flat surfaces. Using a sledge to assist, they drew 1" square down to about 5/16" in one heat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Posted August 4, 2005 Share Posted August 4, 2005 Here's mine, a 75 lb chunk of I beam from the scrap yard. Rings a lot when you hit out on the wings, but very solid over the center web. Have to figure out a better horn though. That Jackhammer bit c-clamped to the side doesn't work that well Michael-Scaring the neighbors since Thanksgiving 2004 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T-Gold Posted August 5, 2005 Share Posted August 5, 2005 Thank you Woolridge! I've been looking for a pic of the Brazeal Brothers' anvil for ages! Much grass. Resizing looks good as well Thanks again. Now to find some heavy plate... :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T-Gold Posted August 5, 2005 Share Posted August 5, 2005 By the way, Michael, the C-clamp needs to be parallel to the direction of foce applied... IE, clamp through the top of the I-beam rather than through the web. Better off welding it, probably... and finding some RR track or something. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted August 5, 2005 Share Posted August 5, 2005 Weld some heavy walled pipe into the corner and slide the "horn" through that and wedge it securely. Thomas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shane Stegmeier Posted August 8, 2005 Share Posted August 8, 2005 I got a 455# 6" diameter axil forging from ptree, and am going to make it into my sledging anvil... All the weight right under the face, I just need to bury the 22" diameter flange at the bottom to get it low enough to use with a gang of helper sledges, or for me what is a normal working height;-) it is 37.5" long at the moment, so I will need to bury it nearly a foot or more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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