ThomasPowers Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 Metropolitan Museum of Art probably tops us all---even the stump is amazing: (zoom in for the close-ups!) http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/33025 16th century, Italian, weight with stand 251 pounds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 I wonder what a machine shop would charge to make the face flat and smooth? Love the stand, I've always wanted a dragon in that pose to hold my forge. Pretty darned neat anvil, working art? Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dylan Sawicki Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 Wow that's pretty neat. I wonder what the anvil weighs by itself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted June 30, 2017 Author Share Posted June 30, 2017 Wouldn't you like to whip that out at a demo...There is another famous one with a face on the side, I'll have to dig out the link to it sometime. (Searching on German Art Anvil should bring it up) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thief_Of_Navarre Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 There is a picture out there in the ether of a post vice with a different face on each jaw. I saw it on Pinterest.. Wouldn't know where to start with search terms; two-face vice maybe? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Turley Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 The Higgins Armory Museum in Worcester, MA, had one or more fancy anvils. Their collection was transferred to the Worcester Art Museum a few years ago. Some early, nice anvils are pictured in the catalog/book "Made of Iron" published by the University of St. Thomas, Houston, TX, in 1966, It's a beautiful little book which reflected a show that their Art Department put together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted June 30, 2017 Author Share Posted June 30, 2017 was it this one? https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/32/10/27/321027c2750f75d0501e0f0bb02aa575--vise-blacksmith-tools.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thief_Of_Navarre Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 Possibly so, I thought the image was clearer than that but it might just be a different picture of the same vise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted June 30, 2017 Author Share Posted June 30, 2017 I seem to remember a "nicer one" too. how about this one? https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQc91zZ33Gvj_K0skd2lpwtTyVbfPpubdJtYuCwVOEbrOktXIXS1g Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WayneCoeArtistBlacksmith Posted July 1, 2017 Share Posted July 1, 2017 I can't see where the handle is on either of the "face" vises. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted July 1, 2017 Share Posted July 1, 2017 Neither do I Wayne but they could've used a wrench on a nut on the inside of the hook (moving) jaw. I can see a square something in both. It's also possible there was a crank that inserted through the face like an Allen wrench. Under the nose in the first pic and maybe the small face in the second pic is a cap that swings out of the way. That's speculation of course but it'd be a shame to stick a typical vise handle on either of those. I'd have to at least dress it up some way, maybe an exaggerated smoking type pipe. Very cool vises. Any more? Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted July 1, 2017 Share Posted July 1, 2017 Photos added. I would guess that the square nut is the adjustment mechanism. First vise square nut on the far side of the vise on the non-moving jaw. Second vise, the square nut on the inside of the mobile jaw. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted July 1, 2017 Share Posted July 1, 2017 A person could put the female threaded section on almost any side of either jaw. Turn on the screw or turn the screw with a bolt head thingy, the spring returns it to open. The non moving jaw is the "Heel jaw" the mover is the "Hook jaw". Just like a pipe, monkey, etc. wrench. The terms for adjustable wrenches were taken from the post vise part names. I picked that up from browsing the patent servers right after the internet went public. Try now and you get buried in ads for what you MIGHT be interested in, forget what you wanted in the first place. That tidbit was part of the patent description on the application for an improved version of one of the first adjustable "monkey" type adjustable wrenches. You could look up THE first patent granted in the USA, wish I could remember what it was. The Franklin Fire place was in there but not by that name. The old patent servers were endless hours of terrific reading. That's right, the bell reducer on a piece of pipe "linear burner" shows up as part of a patent application drawing for an improved gas forge from IIRC just after the Civil War. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Millhand Posted July 18, 2017 Share Posted July 18, 2017 I would keep this anvil in my bed like a teady bear lol!! amazing work of art! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 19, 2017 Author Share Posted July 19, 2017 once it grabbed the covers you would would end up in the cold! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JNewman Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 I picked up a French anvil book by Evelyn et Jean-Patrick Boye called Enclumes Et Bigornes Anciennes. It has quite a few highly decorated anvils and a with carved faces in it. My favorite is a stake anvil with the devil on one side and Jesus on the other. The book is has a lot of beautiful pictures of all different types of anvils. It was a little expensive and the text is only in French but I recommend it if you like pictures of Old anvils. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLAG Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 Frosty, The first patent issued by the U.S. Patent Office (pat. # 1, to Sam Hopkins) was for a process for making potash, in 1790. Thomas Jefferson influenced the constitution people to put a specific patent office stipulation into the Constitution. He was the principal author of said Constitution. SLAG. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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