tjokie Posted April 14, 2021 Share Posted April 14, 2021 Hi everyone, good day... Just bought this Anvil, weight about 105 kgs, L60cm, H30cm, face 12,5cm. Rebound Test with 2mm ball bearing; 80%. Seller don't know brand & made in which country. No Brand or marking at all on the body. Please kindly help me to identify this anvil. - Brand? - Made in? Thank you in advance. Hope enjoy our day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted April 14, 2021 Share Posted April 14, 2021 Looks sort of like a Birmingham Pattern to me, the wide waist is common to earlier anvils made in the UK. The overly large pritchel hole is a puzzle though. The handling holes are a good sign and the ball bearing results are excellent. There were over 200 know anvil makers in the UK and many of them learned their craft in another's shop and then went out on their own to make anvils that may look quite similar to the ones made in the shop they learned in; so if no stampings turn up you may never be able to pinpoint the original maker. Even if you find an identical one with good clear stampings it might not be from the same shop but from a "clone shop". Luckily you don't have to know an anvil's maker; just that it's a good one to use! (Anvils made by top firms can still have suffered a structure fire that ruins their temper; while unknown anvils may have a great face temper!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjokie Posted April 14, 2021 Author Share Posted April 14, 2021 Thank you very much Thomas, always excellent reply from you. I hope you didn't bored to reply my question, due to me still Newbie in Anvil world. Thank you Thomas.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted April 14, 2021 Share Posted April 14, 2021 It looks like a very good user to me, kinda looks like a Mouse Hole, but like Thomas said there were many foundries making anvils that sorta looked like Mouse Hole anvils. If you clean off all the paint, you may see some remnants of a makers mark. BTW you might want to edit your response and remove the quote, no use in quoting the post just prior to your reply. The quote feature Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted April 14, 2021 Share Posted April 14, 2021 Not Foundries; foundries do casting and that is a forged anvil! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted April 14, 2021 Share Posted April 14, 2021 Of course you are correct, I should have said forges. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjokie Posted April 14, 2021 Author Share Posted April 14, 2021 Thank you irondragon. Tomorrow I planned to removed whole paint on the body. I hope there is marking on the body, even though cryptic mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeJustice Posted April 14, 2021 Share Posted April 14, 2021 A 2mm "ball bearing" is smaller than what we call a bb here, quite small. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted April 14, 2021 Share Posted April 14, 2021 I was wondering if that was a typo for 2 cm? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjokie Posted April 14, 2021 Author Share Posted April 14, 2021 Sorry for typo. I mean, tested with 2 cm BB from height about 100cm & Rebound about 80cm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted April 14, 2021 Share Posted April 14, 2021 NO need to apologize, typos happen to us all. Please do not to use @ name tags, they mess with the way the operating system works and moderators have to remove them and hunt down the errors they cause. Nice looking anvil and a 80% rebound tells me all I'd need to know to put it to work. My real interest is in the tool, it's history is just a side note, nice to know but not important. That's just me though. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted April 14, 2021 Share Posted April 14, 2021 That style has an extremely large "sweet spot" for doing heavy working with large hammers. I'd love to have one like that, I don't use the cutting plate on my anvils so I'd not miss it save for the angle it provides and I could build a swage for that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjokie Posted April 14, 2021 Author Share Posted April 14, 2021 Thank you Frosty for reminder. Lucky me to have this Anvil with very affordable prices... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted April 14, 2021 Share Posted April 14, 2021 Selamat Pagi, (about all the Bahasa I remember from a 30 day installation trip to Jakarta about 25 years ago.) Do you plan to do blacksmithing with it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjokie Posted April 15, 2021 Author Share Posted April 15, 2021 Selamat pagi is Good Morning.. Yes Thomas. I have small workshop in home. Initially, anvil I use for work and these few months I am interested in collecting them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted April 15, 2021 Share Posted April 15, 2021 Pagi Pagi; Will you be using a charcoal forge or a propane one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjokie Posted May 11, 2021 Author Share Posted May 11, 2021 I,m using Propane... More clean & fast Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 Propane is indeed. The cool down time is a big factor, a propane forge will remain dangerously hot for a couple hours at least. By dangerous hot I mean it'll be hot enough to start fires for hours. If I close off the openings my forge is still red hot 2+ hours after I shut it off. If a leaf blows in it will catch fire another 3 or so hours later. My too large shop forge has a split heavy fire brick floor though and it's really hot. This is one reason I strongly recommend against using heavy fire brick anywhere in a propane forge. It'd just take a major rebuild to eliminate it from mine. I didn't know any better when I built it. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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