Anvil questions...

Steve Hayden said:
A good part of my hearing went with loud bar bands, gunfire and turbo diesel engines back in the days when just sissies wore hearing protection.
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All the more reason to save what you've got left! (FWIW, I've lost a good bit of mine to loud bands and believe it or not, computers. Sitting all day in a room full of computers and air chillers will kill your hearing faster than you think...)

Steve Hayden said:
Bouncing is not a big problem, I have the base bracketed with lag bolts. There are no holes in the base to tie it down. The only time it has moved much was when working on 52100 mill balls. They don't move very easy under the hammer, so you gotta whale on 'em.
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I've got mine attached with lag bolts through some pieces of angle that ride on top of the feet. Works like a charm!

-d
 
Cant beat some good chain lag bolted down :D I forget where i found that idea but i know it was here.....
If you can, hold out for a heavier one .the jump from 100 to 155 was quite noticable,I had to make my stump wider till a tree falls my way.I dont know how often you get down in my neck of the woods but i'm always searching for anvils.
Here's a pic of my new kohlswa....i love tax season.
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From the Connecticut Blacksmiths Guild newsletter.

29 & 30 April---We lost a good friend in Bud Heaton. Bud's family will be selling many of his tools and 150+ anvils at Bud's shop 9:00 - 4:00 on Gleaner Chaple Road, North Scituate, RI. The road is to the west of North Scituate and north off the Danielson Pike. Bud's grandson will continue to run the shop as a hobby. Bud's son, also Bud is at 401-847-3933.



I'm going just to see 150 anvils in one place!

I talked to Bud today and asked what else he had...he said "thousands of tongs and hammers"

Not realy in need of anything but I just can't resist.
I'm sure I'll find something cool.:D
Mace


Matt, How much you willing to spend????? Maybe I'll find ya something.
 
A couple hundred was really where I'd be comfortable right now, but don't sweat it unless there's simply something there that's too good to be true... I think Wulf is right on this one. Things tend to find themselves just as they become needed. Call it fate, call it karma, call it bullshit... all I know is somehow things really do present themselves to me, Maybe your trip will prove to be it, I don't know.
Thanks for the offer, Mace! If it works out that there's something incredible, snag it and I'll find a way to get money to you, along with getting it out of your way... but please don't feel compelled. I've got a LOT of irons in the fire for this one!
 
WOW! They had a lot of stuff! We got there about 9:03 and you could hardly move around. I even had to walk across anvils to look at other anvils!

My buddy Matt P. picked up a nice anvil for I think $175.00 and a beater for "students" for $30.00.
We each got a post vice...I got a couple pairs of tongs, some calipers, a stump anvil for saw teeth (I think), a silver wire inlay swagger stick(this thing is sweet!):D and........


a 200 pound cutlers anvil!

I think it's a mouse hole.

buck a pound.;)



Sorry Matt....it's not for you. heh heh.
Mace
 
WOW, bro... that's a friggin' amazing find! Good to hear! I haven't even begun to think about tongs and such, although I'm sure it'll spring up soon enough. Good to hear the trip was a success.

...so when are you dropping off my 200lb anvil?;)
 
Matt,
If you leave now you might make the sale tomorrow! There was about 60 or so anvils left when we left.


Oh yeah...by the way....




.....Mousehole.....hehehehe....:D



Mace
 
well its was nice there. though i left with a strange bunch of stuff.
made it there after mace so all the good stuff was gone. i ended up leaving with a box of horse shoes. 2 really beautiful pairs of tongs for 10 bucks each, and about 2 dozen muskrat/woodchuck kind of leg traps.
i know i'm weird.
but if anyone can make it. then GO! i'm all set with 3 anvils already and a huge leg vise. so i didn't need anything but if you needed one. you could get a nice leg vise for about 25 bucks:D
it was an awesome trip
 
Mace said:
Oh yeah...by the way....




.....Mousehole.....hehehehe....:D
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There's something REALLY wrong with you.

BTW, it's WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY easier to grind a knife that's been forged to shape than to start with a big ole' hunk of flat bar stock and make something of it! I owe you, brother... big time. Not happy with the handle, however. I think I'm gonna lop it right off and have a bud weld a stick of all-thrad to it and make my first hidden tang with a big chunk of red oak I've had laying around... we shall see.

Need to come up with some scratch to buy all the stuff I need to forge. May end up parting with my bolt gun, after all. Truth is, it should go somewhere it'll end up being used, rather than sitting in my safe doing nothing!
 
Matt,
Don't you dare cut that handle off!:eek: Make it work boy! Weld allthread...:rolleyes: :jerkit: That handle fealt great! Relax...take your time.......Take your medication. It will be OK....We'll get thru this.
Breath.
Mace

Send me your address....I'm gonna send you something for your handle.
 
I forgot to mention I used the new anvil today to forge a fighter. It's got great rebound...does not move...and the rounded top works great for the bevels. I don't think this anvil was ever used or hardly ever used if that. It is in fantastic shape and very interesting. Can't wait to get it set up right on its own stump and all. Maybe I'll go to the saw mill and see if they got a nice block of curly maple to set it on.:D

Mace





oh yeah............






.....Mousehole!



heh heh...
 
Mace said:
Matt,
Don't you dare cut that handle off!:eek:
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I knew that was going to be your response... don't kill me, I did it last night and didn't read the thread until now! I screwed up the shaping of the handle, and no matter what I did I couldn't bring it back. I should have forged it a little more when I was out at IG's so that I'd be more comfortable with it, but I didn't. Besides, I know it's waaaay easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission!
I know, I suck.
Nonetheless, I stared at the blade for almost 3 hours before the hidden tang idea hit me, and I've got a mental picture of the knife that's stronger than any other idea that's ever hit me when making a knife.
I HAVE to do it this way, or I'll die.

Mike, I'll email you later today when I've got more coffee and consciousness with the specs.
 
Back to anvil questions...

I was perusing my knifemaking books last night, and I think it was Bill Moran that said he actually buried his log 'anvil stand' 2 feet into the ground, then had the anvil sitting on it at whatever height he deemed necessary i.e. stump buried 2 feet in ground, another two feet of stump sticking out of ground, then anvil attached to it. Does anyone else do that, or think it's beneficial?
 
If you're regularly swinging a 12 pound sledge on a 100 pound anvil, maybe that will make a difference, but for general bladesmithing I don't think that type of a foundation is necessary.
 
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