Kanca 110 vs Kanca 165 # anvil

[Tim simmons]

I am need to forging. I am looking at the kanca anvils 110 vs 165 #. I can get the 110 easy the 165 # will be harder to get. My question is, will their be much difference between the two anvils in weight on forging knives? Any help would be appreciated thanks.

[Judson Yaggy]

No difference for knives.  If you ever forge anything heavier, then yes, the extra weight will make hand forging easier.  

[Tim simmons]

Will the 110 work for making a Damascus knife? I know it takes layers of steel.

[ThomasPowers]

I've welded billets on a 25 pound block of steel before.  It's the skill and experience of the user more than the tools!

110# is a good travel anvil size; 165# is a good professional shop anvil size.

So as is advised in "Big Trouble in Little China"----"Marry them Both!"

(But I would not go into debt to get the larger one...)

[Marc1]

Tim ... if you can get the bigger one, do.

Of course there is a substantial difference between 110 and 165, get the bigger one, you will not regret the choice. 

If you can't decide, buy them both

 

[Tim simmons]

Thanks for the advice every one

[JHCC]

Generally speaking, get the biggest anvil you can afford. You can always do small things on a big anvil, but you can't always do big things on a small anvil.

[ThomasPowers]

An exception being when you have to carry the anvil from the basement up the rickety stairs, through the kitchen and out the back door and down the steps to put it on the stump under the tree.  I used to live in a bad neighborhood and could not leave anything outside and so each forging session started and ended with the heavy hauling....My 91 pound A&H made the trip a lot more often than the 165# PW....

[Charcold]

And here i was thinking my 90 lb vulcan on a stump moving from one end of the garage to the other was a bother. I'm still going to put on some casters, but i have a new perspective lol

[JHCC]

42 minutes ago, Charcold said:

And here i was thinking my 90 lb vulcan on a stump moving from one end of the garage to the other was a bother.

ἄσβεστος δ' ἄρ' ἐνῶρτο γέλως μακάρεσσι θεοῖσιν
ὡς ἴδον Ἥφαιστον διὰ δώματα ποιπνύοντα. 

[Latticino]

24 minutes ago, JHCC said:

ἄσβεστος δ' ἄρ' ἐνῶρτο γέλως μακάρεσσι θεοῖσιν
ὡς ἴδον Ἥφαιστον διὰ δώματα ποιπνύοντα. 

OK, I love references from the wisdom of the ages, but in ancient Greek without a translation?  That's just cruel

[JHCC]

3 minutes ago, Latticino said:

OK, I love references from the wisdom of the ages, but in ancient Greek without a translation?  That's just cruel

"And immortal laughter rose from the bliss-filled gods,
As they watched Hephaestus bustling about the palace."

Homer's "Iliad", Book One, lines 599-600

[ThomasPowers]

Here I was looking up a translation for D'oh, I'm sure Homer said that!  And Festus bustling; Miss Kitty must have asked him for help...

[Charcold]

I just figured that was one of those goofy fonts you turned on by accident 

[ThomasPowers]

like dingbats?

[JHCC]

4 minutes ago, ThomasPowers said:

Here I was looking up a translation for D'oh

That would be "Δ'ὣ!"

 

4 minutes ago, Charcold said:

I just figured that was one of those goofy fonts you turned on by accident 

When I turn on goofy fonts, my dear sir, I assure you that it is no accident!

[ThomasPowers]

Is that the transliteration or does it convey the meaning?  Like:  "Birther" had a totally different meaning in the Pantheon of Greek Gods!

[Irondragon Forge ClayWorks]

25 minutes ago, JHCC said:

That would be "Δ'ὣ!"

 

When I turn on goofy fonts, my dear sir, I assure you that it is no accident!

˙sᴉɥʇ ǝʞᴉl sɯǝǝs ʎɐp ǝloɥʍ ʎɯ sǝɯᴉʇǝɯoS

[JHCC]

Transliteration. 

[Irondragon Forge ClayWorks]

Upside down  and backwards.

[Daswulf]

16 minutes ago, Irondragon Forge & Clay said:

˙sᴉɥʇ ǝʞᴉl sɯǝǝs ʎɐp ǝloɥʍ ʎɯ sǝɯᴉʇǝɯoS

And somehow I read that faster and easier then some of the run on sentences with no punctuation or capital letters like a few post. Hmm. Maybe if they type upside down and backwards I could read it better. 

[ThomasPowers]

Now if you are in the southern hemisphere...

[Buzzkill]

23 hours ago, JHCC said:

"And immortal laughter rose from the bliss-filled gods,
As they watched Hephaestus bustling about the palace."

Homer's "Iliad", Book One, lines 599-600

Just for comparison, here's the Google Translate take:

" limp is not as good as the righteous god
as a dream come to pass through the guts. "

[JHCC]

58 minutes ago, Buzzkill said:

Just for comparison, here's the Google Translate take:

" limp is not as good as the righteous god
as a dream come to pass through the guts. "

My old advisor (of blessed memory) liked to respond to "But that's what's in the dictionary!" with (and you must imagine this in a thick Brooklyn accent): "Ya know, when I foist got outta school, I hadda job with Merriam Webster, da dictionary people. One ting I loined: Never trust da dictionary!"