New from Baltimore

[dundalkhandyman]

Im new to blacksmithing. Im actually still fabbing my forge. I need an anvil desperately. Any tips tricks or ideas please msg me. My email is dundalkhandyman@gmail.com

[Kevin Olson]

Go to the main page and look for Thomas Powers technique for anvil aquisition. It works. 

[ThomasPowers]

Also remember that for over 2000 years an anvil has looked like a largish hunk of metal and has only looked like the london pattern for 200 years, all the katanas, viking swords, etc were forged on a basic cube of metal.  Don't get hung up on the london pattern---folks have used rocks as anvils for roughing out work!

[Frosty]

Welcome aboard, glad to have you. If you put your general location in the header you might be surprised how many folk live within visiting distance. Seriously, you're asking the whole darned planet to help locate an anvil. A guy two doors down might have a wife looking to get rid of the clutter. Seriously more than once someone has discovered another blacksmith living within walking distance after putting their location in the header.

Frosty The Lucky.

[ThomasPowers]

Also there were more anvils in cities than in the country as most industries had one to hand back in the day---shoot even car repair places back around WWI had a smithy as part of their set up----I bought a 6" post vise off one that was finally going out of business and selling off the stuff in their shop that had been in the same location since 1918.  (anvil went too high; but US$50 for a 6" postvise wasn't too bad...)