aaamax Posted November 4, 2020 Share Posted November 4, 2020 This is a Frosty Special. I thought it would be nice to post what I think is a rather unusual (check out those arches) Söderfors for sale in Sweden. 123kg, an interesting profile and roughly $900. Not cheap, but very, very cool. Would you agree Frosty? Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted November 4, 2020 Share Posted November 4, 2020 Is it a Soderfors? No doubt Soderfors would cast whatever shape anvil you wished to pay for but I'll need verification to stimulate my salivary glands. I've ever worked on a pig anvil and would be happy to give it a try. Be nice to work with someone who could show me what makes a good design over a London or other square bic pattern. Regardless it'd look right at home brushed, waxed and mounted in my shop, I'd be happy to arrange room. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaamax Posted November 4, 2020 Author Share Posted November 4, 2020 I know! she is an odd bird isn't she? Here is the defining shot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted November 4, 2020 Share Posted November 4, 2020 Actually a rather common style for Central and South America; I expect they exported there as well as North America. I know Columbian, which also made cast steel anvils but in America, made an export version in that style. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted November 5, 2020 Share Posted November 5, 2020 Cool, I'll accept the corroboration! My salivary glands are responding as expected. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonnytait Posted November 5, 2020 Share Posted November 5, 2020 I like it. Interesting Swedish made anvil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chelonian Posted November 5, 2020 Share Posted November 5, 2020 Very nice looking anvil. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaamax Posted November 5, 2020 Author Share Posted November 5, 2020 Thomas, funny that you say common style for Central and South America. Because now that you mention it, I see a Spanish flair in the design of that base. Aesthetically it would fit in perfectly at a Finca down south. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted November 5, 2020 Share Posted November 5, 2020 I think I saw a US-made Spanish-style anvil at the Fisher & Norris Museum, but I can't remember the maker. Might have been Columbian, but I don't recall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted November 5, 2020 Share Posted November 5, 2020 They have Finca's in Denmark? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlatLiner Posted November 5, 2020 Share Posted November 5, 2020 That would be a sweet anvil to go along side my beat up soderfors. I wonder how expensive the shipping from Sweden to the USA would be? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted November 5, 2020 Share Posted November 5, 2020 It'd look good next to my unbeatup Soderfors. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stash Posted November 5, 2020 Share Posted November 5, 2020 John- I think that might have been a Fisher. They made them for export to SA. I'd check to confirm bot I'm 200 miles from my copy of Josh's book. Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njanvilman Posted November 6, 2020 Share Posted November 6, 2020 That style of anvil was made by Fisher around 1920. They called them Insonora, which means quiet in Spanish. There are 4 sizes of these in the Fisher Museum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlatLiner Posted November 11, 2020 Share Posted November 11, 2020 I would love to find an unbeatenup soderfors Frosty but I had to settle for a soderfors mangled by years of horseshoeing in the wilds of Wyoming. I couldn't pass up a soderfors for a good price :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaamax Posted November 11, 2020 Author Share Posted November 11, 2020 pictures my man Flatliner. A beatup Söderfors is always fun to see. my favorite is by most people's standards "beat-up" , but it has all the edges that somehow fit my needs perfectly. I don't know if anvils actually get broken in and rebound differently after years of use, but this one just has the smoothest/sweetest feel under hammer. I'll get a pic up as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted November 11, 2020 Share Posted November 11, 2020 Anvils do work harden the face a bit over the years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frazer Posted November 11, 2020 Share Posted November 11, 2020 aaamax, she's a little beat up . Also by a farrier. Chips, ~1/8" of sway and torch gouge were all included. When I first got her, in a thick coat of brown paint. After clean up Lots of chips on the side with less of a radius as one might expect. She's hard as a coffin nail. Pardon the mess, these are old pictures. Don't get me wrong the shop is still a mess. It's just had a some time to become more of a.. refined mess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted November 11, 2020 Share Posted November 11, 2020 Frazer; last night my wife asked me about bringing in a tool from my shop for work on the kitchen. I said I'd try to get home before dark to get it for her today. She said that if I would just describe it; she would go into my shop and get it in daylight. I just laughed and laughed and laughed and finally told her that even if she had the EMTs on speed dial I wouldn't suggest she try to find something in my shop! It's funny that the areas around the smithing stuff maintain clearance to move hot steel around and that seems to force the clutter to pile higher in other places. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frazer Posted November 11, 2020 Share Posted November 11, 2020 This past Friday in preparation for the move I had to pull everything out of the shop and pressure wash the siding and pavers around my workspace. It took me a little over 2 hours to pull everything out, two hours to spray down and scrub 2 years of shop dust off the vinyl and then another 2 hours to move everything back in in a semi-organized state. I'm lucky it only took that long. In digging through the piles that collected along the perimeter I even found a few long lost items. Incredible. I sweep out and tidy up the immediate work space around the anvil/forge every week but those piles just kept growing and growing. I'm looking forward to moving into a space that's indoors so I can make some shelves and have even more horizontal surfaces pile things up and lose them on! My shop, and many other's, would be an OCD person's nightmare. "Hey Brady, where do you keep your hack saw?" "Go check that pile next to the stack of fire bricks, on top of the big box of steel pipe fittings. You may have to move the welding screen. It's there somewhere. Spare blades? Oh they're around, might be inside though." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted November 11, 2020 Share Posted November 11, 2020 My suggestion: don't make shelves too deep. You want to be able to see everything on them from the front! (So this does translate to one set of deep shelves for things that do take the whole space from front to back.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaamax Posted November 11, 2020 Author Share Posted November 11, 2020 Frazer, she's a beauty! That is not beat up at all in my eyes. That horn looks unused. Terrific score along with the nice post vise. My edges borderline on mushroomed, but are shaped in such a way that it makes for perfect fullering on that which I need to do. Like I said before , most would think mine is in terrible shape. Tomorrow I plan to take a photo and load it up in all her glory... lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlatLiner Posted November 12, 2020 Share Posted November 12, 2020 Here ya go aaamax The pics don't do justice to how bad some of the edges where. After some pieces nearly cut me as they flew off when I was forging I knocked them down with a flap wheel. Now she has more curves then a south German style. I can find the right curve or radius for whatever I am doing. I know many people would fault me for it but for safety sake and the fact I couldn't find a decent edge on on the sweet spot(it looked like a saw blade on both sides down the whole face of the anvil). Here she is before and after. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted November 12, 2020 Share Posted November 12, 2020 Looks like a "ranch anvil" most of them seem to have been ridden hard and put away wet. The both edges worn seems to be common with cold shoeing. I've seen a Vulcan used that way that actually was ridge backed! Tons of beating hot steel life left on that one and US$100 was a steal for recent times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted November 12, 2020 Share Posted November 12, 2020 Chipped edges is pretty normal for Soderfors anvils they tend to be harder than necessary. That's a beauty and great score, she'll last generations of good solid hard work. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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