February 20, 20224 yr "Was thinking you would be making/ hammering some tin shoes for a sculpture with it." Good idea. I tried making some boots for a scarecrow sculpture way back when. It didn't go well. I think I could make that cobblers anvil work.
February 20, 20224 yr If you keep it, in ten years you will have moved that cobblers tool hundreds of times but never used it for anything save for a weight to hold something down during a glue up or maybe to fix a shoe. It's an interesting hunk of metal though.
February 20, 20224 yr Or tripped over it once and broke my neck.... Seriously, you are probably right. I'll see if I can sell or trade it for a profit. Maybe I could take it back to the flea market in a month or two and see if he will buy it back for $3. 7 hours ago, JHCC said: Works better for a statue of the Tin Man. I'd be lion to you if I said that it didn't take me all day to figure that one out.
February 20, 20224 yr That’s just cause your out of your element! Your not in Nebraska anymore Scott! Lol
February 20, 20224 yr List it on craigslist as an anvil for $100. like everyone around here. Pfft... I beams little chunks of whatever overly small over priced chunks of rr track.... Hmm... I should list a rock as an anvil for $50. Kidding btw.
February 21, 20224 yr when I post something on Craigslist that within 30 minutes I start getting scam texts… it’s to bad there’s not a way to reverse the scam and let the scammer end up with a rock! Lol
February 21, 20224 yr There's always the "sorry, already sold; but do you know how to get blood out of a cement floor? I mean really really good, so that it doesn't show up no matter what some folks do?" reply. I had a friend that used to give me 8' pieces of rail every time I visited him---old cattle guard and you know what it means when an older person starts giving away their "good stuff". I remember accepting short chunks of rail as change at the fleamarket US$3 for a foot back in the 1990's. I feel that selling a 2' chunk for US$100 as an "anvil" is just a scam---though not as bad as the fellow selling I beam with one end torched to a point as "anvils".
February 22, 20224 yr An "I" beam torch cut to a point to look like a "horn"? It would be funny, but that's just downright unscrupulous ...
February 22, 20224 yr Or just doesn't know any better about what makes an anvil "work". However I am not a big fan about folks claiming stuff that they know nothing about! If you don't know---don't claim it is something it isn't!
February 22, 20224 yr Could be. I knew a guy that thought he knew it all and he was dangerous. Constantly cross threading bolts, snapping off spark plugs, tipping over engine hoists and catching things on fire. He would grab a wrench or ink pen out of your hand, saying "let me show you something..." But he meant well and had a good heart. Last I heard he was experimenting with oil burning furnaces with the idea of selling them.
February 22, 20224 yr 1500 miles away seems safe enough . I imagine I'll hear about him in the news someday.
February 22, 20224 yr Between fighting off the post-covid blahs and working on yard toys for my grandchildren I haven't been doing much in the forge. To day a relative gave me a heads-up that a rental place was selling out (after a lot of Hurricane Ida damage) so I dropped by to see what I could pick up. I hope that straight peen isn't the one John is missing. Old O2 bottles are destined for gongs. I already had a letter stamp kit, but this one is larger. While I was out I decided that waiting for right and left lay cable to be found as scrap might take a while, so I went to Paducah Rigging and bought 10 ft each of 7/8" left and right lay cable. Should be enough for a plethora or two of cable feather Damascus blades
February 22, 20224 yr Nope, mine’s a cut-down 3 lb double jack. Thanks for keeping an eye out, though.
February 23, 20224 yr I have a couple of the old linesmen's straight peens that are a bit hefty and sharp for my use. I mainly use a 2.5# commercial straight peen where the peen looks like a piece of 1" round on the end of it. (And would love to find a backup for it!)
February 23, 20224 yr 21 hours ago, Nodebt said: "I" beam torch cut to a point to look like a "horn"? It would be funny, but that's just downright unscrupulous I recently saw an I beam with a piece of lumber on either side being sold as an anvil on a Facebook page. It said the wood was for added mass and it had excellent rebound $75.00 firm. I've also recently seen a few tiny pieces of rail poorly cut to resemble a London pattern anvil offered for over a hundred bucks. Pnut
February 23, 20224 yr My favorite is the people who buy a harbor freight anvil strip the paint off and let it flash rust then put it up for sale for $300 as an antique anvil
February 23, 20224 yr Pnut, I bet it was particle board. Billy, I seem to remember a scam where people would sell sterio amplifiers or speakers or something and take the guts out of it and replace it with paver bricks for weight. Something like that. Bunch of filthy thieves!
February 23, 20224 yr Used to see VCR "bricks" sold out of trunks in mall parking lots. We get anvils from Mexico that were cast using real anvils for mold making---Peter Wright, Hay Budden, etc. They are cast from whatever was left in the ladle at the end of the day and so range in alloy quality, no heat treat, no pritchel hole and sometimes a very large mold line right down the *FACE* of the anvil. I've seen them sold as "antiques" at upper end of prices due to their "condition". Most have very low rebound.
February 23, 20224 yr 20 minutes ago, Nodebt said: Pnut, I bet it was particle board It looked to be 6x6 dimensional lumber like you'd use for the legs on a deck. I remember that scam too. For some reason it seemed like they were always driving around in vans. When I lived in San Francisco in the early nineties some people tried it on me a couple times. Pnut Nope just 2x4's.
February 23, 20224 yr And to think I cobbled up two firewood racks using RR rail for the bottom rails, 4 8' long pieces. All those anvils, all that money! I could have hung my head down and cried all the way to the bank... I did give my grandsons a short piece of rail to bang on as a "starter". I expect/hope it will be used to straighten nails for a couple of years.
February 23, 20224 yr Silly question of the day.... I wonder what those two pieces leaning against it are for?
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