TheThirdAct Posted March 5, 2013 Share Posted March 5, 2013 Can anyone help me please? I need to know the manufacturer of this anvil? Perhaps age and what it is made of. Looked everywhere and cannot seem to come up with an idea. Any help would be appreciated. Thank You! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rustyanchor Posted March 5, 2013 Share Posted March 5, 2013 Looks like a piece of railroad track shaped into an anvil to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted March 5, 2013 Share Posted March 5, 2013 I concur and so the maker of the anvil will be unknown as anyone with access to the proper tools may have made it anytime in the last hundred plus years. You might be able to determine the maker of the RR rail from the letters on it though---knowing what country you are in might make a big difference on that! There are complete instructions on making such an anvil from a piece of rail in "The Complete Modern Blacksmith" Alexander Weygers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted March 6, 2013 Share Posted March 6, 2013 Welcome aboard 3rd. glad to have you. If you'll put your general location in your header you might be surprised to discover how many of the gang here live within easy visiting distance. OR how isolated from the rest of the world you are. <sigh> Looks like rail to me as well. It'll make a perfectly serviceable little anvil just don't take a sledge to it and protect chisels or other cutting tools from it, it'll blunt a chisel like it was nothing. Rail is very high quality high carbon steel. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted March 7, 2013 Share Posted March 7, 2013 Weygers mentions that he used his RR rail anvils for sledging as being solid high grade steel they didn't suffer like anvil mainly of forge welded WI. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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