Dylan Sawicki Posted October 1, 2017 Share Posted October 1, 2017 101023 is 1911 according to AIA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HammerMonkey Posted October 1, 2017 Author Share Posted October 1, 2017 Very cool, thank you! is the "185" the weight, (as I suspected)? I will be removing the old stump an weighing the anvil tomorrow, but after jockeying it around, 185 seems plausible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lou L Posted October 1, 2017 Share Posted October 1, 2017 Nice looking anvil. I have 4 that are in semi-storage, as I am building a forging shed now behind the main shop. Last time I pounded iron was around 1990. I am in Port Angeles, not far from you. I joined the NWBA a couple of months ago but have been very disappointed with the lack of participation by others. Seems like a dead site to me. I've been to Port Angeles a few times to visit family. My father-in-law is from WA and his nephew is Dan McKeen, your town manager and once fire chief. It's a beautiful town. I'll be out that way next summer if plans don't change. Lou Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted October 1, 2017 Share Posted October 1, 2017 Yes on the weight. Please be sure to run your 2x12's Vertically and not a criss cross horizontal stack! (We have a CL guy out here trying to sell a chunk of rail on a piece of plywood atop a criss cross stack of 2x4's with a hollow center which he claims quiets the anvil. I guess he is unfamiliar with drums.....he extols it as "THE BASE IS SUPER STURDY AND HOLLOW ON THE INTERIOR WITH SPACES TO TAKE THE RING OUT OF THE ANVIL" . 12.5" piece of rail with no work done on it mounted on scrap lumber US$100--- I wonder if he's related to P.T.Barnum?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HammerMonkey Posted October 1, 2017 Author Share Posted October 1, 2017 Yes on the weight. Please be sure to run your 2x12's Vertically and not a criss cross horizontal stack! (We have a CL guy out here trying to sell a chunk of rail on a piece of plywood atop a criss cross stack of 2x4's with a hollow center which he claims quiets the anvil. I guess he is unfamiliar with drums.....he extols it as "THE BASE IS SUPER STURDY AND HOLLOW ON THE INTERIOR WITH SPACES TO TAKE THE RING OUT OF THE ANVIL" . 12.5" piece of rail with no work done on it mounted on scrap lumber US$100--- I wonder if he's related to P.T.Barnum?) Yeah, I saw the crib style base online and thought that it kinda defeated the purpose of having a quality anvil... im going for something like this: (On edit) My base has 8 - 2"x12" pieces, offset by 1" then another 2"x12" on each end that is 3/4" longer to capture the base of the anvil. The base measures 12 1/2" x 10" which will work out perfect for my stackup. Ive got the first half glued and clamped up in the shop (my clamps are not big enough to do the entire stack. I've got enough threaded rod to run through the finished pedestal in 4 to 8 places). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted October 1, 2017 Share Posted October 1, 2017 Beautiful! I hold my stands like that together with the large hot galvanized bolts they use for guardrails out here---they show up at the scrapyard on a regular basis. Also the eyebolts from utility poles, my local scrapyard is where the local electrical coop scraps their stuff. I drilled the holes using an electrician's drillbit used to drill between studs in a wall. (My wood was free oak floorboards from a horse trailer---a very "rustic look" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HammerMonkey Posted October 1, 2017 Author Share Posted October 1, 2017 Beautiful! I hold my stands like that together with the large hot galvanized bolts they use for guardrails out here---they show up at the scrapyard on a regular basis. Also the eyebolts from utility poles, my local scrapyard is where the local electrical coop scraps their stuff. I drilled the holes using an electrician's drillbit used to drill between studs in a wall. (My wood was free oak floorboards from a horse trailer---a very "rustic look" The pic is not of mine, I grabbed it from the interweb... My base will be a bit bigger and I am using treated lumber left over from my pole barn. I bet yours is really nice looking with the oak. I'd love to see a picture of that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted October 1, 2017 Share Posted October 1, 2017 I wouldn't call mine nice looking. It's worn and weathered oak and I didn't do any sanding or planing but I did make several stands, the best pieces are a set of shelves on one wall. I did a couple of stands with the seconds and then noticed that I was one stand away from having *every* anvil on a stand so I made the final stand from not 3rds but more like 17ths...Horses can be rough on wood.... There were pictures of them here at one time; I can try to get another set when I go back up the hill to teach on Oct 14. To make them I cut the boards to size with the front and back ones a tad taller to trap the anvil. Then I lined them up on the open side of an I beam to get the bottom level. Pipe clamped them together several places and drilled the through holes. Then drove the bolts through and snugged them down and voila d'gambler an anvil stand! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HammerMonkey Posted October 2, 2017 Author Share Posted October 2, 2017 One more pic. i can't quite make out the maker's initial. Sometimes I see an "M" or an "N", and sometimes it looks like a lazy "Z". what think you? The out of focus pic actually shows the mark better than the sharper ones I took... go figure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HammerMonkey Posted October 18, 2017 Author Share Posted October 18, 2017 Here’s the pedestal I spoke of making. It’s not as nice as one made of a hardwood would be, but it wii do for now. i used some old treated 2x12s I had left over from my pole barn. I glued them together, through bolted them with threaded rod, sanded it down a bit and then charred and finished with a light wire brushing to remove the slivers an splinters. It added a little character, that suits the106 year old anvil that is perched upon it. But function over form... right? The anvil fits snug and sets solidly. It is working really well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted October 18, 2017 Share Posted October 18, 2017 Looks a lot fancier than my hardwood ones! I like the extended front and back boards to help hold the anvil in place. (I did that too) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HammerMonkey Posted October 18, 2017 Author Share Posted October 18, 2017 Thank you. I’d sure like to see the pics of your reclaimed oak pedestal if you find them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted October 18, 2017 Share Posted October 18, 2017 I like it and it looks like your dog is thinking, oh boy a new post to visit. If that were my rat terrier there would be a puddle already, he christened all of my posts before he passed away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HammerMonkey Posted October 18, 2017 Author Share Posted October 18, 2017 9 hours ago, Irondragon Forge & Clay said: I like it and it looks like your dog is thinking, oh boy a new post to visit. If that were my rat terrier there would be a puddle already, he christened all of my posts before he passed away. ha, fortunately the pup is a she... no leg lifting or christening! She was just hurrying to photobomb my picture.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted October 18, 2017 Share Posted October 18, 2017 She looks like a sweet heart, kind of like Daisy, my rotti-shepherd mix a real camera hog. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HammerMonkey Posted October 19, 2017 Author Share Posted October 19, 2017 3 hours ago, Irondragon Forge & Clay said: She looks like a sweet heart, kind of like Daisy, my rotti-shepherd mix a real camera hog. She is a sweetheart.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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