jet made in japan 50? anyone?

can you find this on a website or anything? I'm going to go google it. Where did you hear it, maybe some background information would help.

can you find this on a website or anything? I'm going to go google it. Where did you hear it, maybe some background information would help.

I saw it in a junk shop for $150. thats all I know

Grizzly sells an anvil with their name raised on it. Maybe JET is doing something similar? Is it cast iron?

On an aside, while looking for the Grizzly anvil online, I noticed that grizzly owns the domain anvils.com. :(

Maybe from here?
JET

Jet anvils look cool but they're cast iron. So unless you're starting an ASO collection and really REALLY want a Jet ASO you'd be better off passing.

There is of course a chance this one predates my first exposure to a Jet anvil in the late 70's around 77 I think and may be a decent working one. I doubt it though.

Frosty

Tyler, I see no reference to an blacksmithing type anvil on the site, can you be more specific?

Blacksmith Anvil
this is the only pic ive seen of these things it appears cast

I am really late to this party, but I just ran across this post when I was trying to find more information about circa 1980s Jet brand anvils.  Living in West Central Florida, there’s not a large selection of used anvils around and “real“ American-made anvils, when they are available, are fairly expensive. (I’m not blacksmithing or metal working, I just wanted one behind my garage to use occasionally when I need to pound on something!).  So recently, I saw a Facebook marketplace ad for a Jet 50 kg anvil for $150 (6.5 miles from my house), and I thought I better scoop it up while I had the opportunity.  I used it the same day I got it and it functioned fine for what I was doing.  I initially had it on concrete blocks, but I just moved it to a Cypress stump yesterday (another Facebook marketplace, ad, free Cypress that was knocked down in the hurricane a year ago).  I was hoping that in terms of quality it was a midpoint between Chinese ASOs and good American/European vintage anvils, but that may be overly optimistic.

Post a photo, perhaps, and we can give you some pointers? 

Welcome from the Ozark mountains

The Jet anvil was made in Japan and they were not very good anvils as far as I know. This is one thread about them. For what you say you want one for it may be better than nothing.

https://www.iforgeiron.com/topic/34331-jet-machinery-company/

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If I recall, Jets are cast iron ASOs, but they might go so far as to be ductile iron; generally speaking ductile anvils don't fall apart when you hit them, but they're soft and have very little rebound at all. Ductile iron ASOs suck to forge on, but they are nice to have around for upsetting, especially when you use them as a floor anvil. You also don't feel bad about touching up the surface with a grinder when it inevitably gets dented either.

When you move up to a steel anvil with decent rebound, you really feel the difference; the work goes a lot faster, your arms stop being tired so much when you forge, and if you've gotten in the bad habit of leaning directly over the work, you'll learn to change it in a hurry after the first time or two you smash your nose on the upswing.

For my money, I'd either drive up to Georgia, where anvils are more common, or try to find a very large piece of scrap steel from a junkyard to use. Not sure the going rate now, but not too long ago you could still get a decent sized piece of rectangular steel for 50 cents a lb and buttering up the owner a little. The biggest change is it's harder now to get them into the yard with them to search. I've even forged on a broken train knuckle and enjoyed it, although it's best not to go to the tracks looking for them...