Anvil Success - Update: post vise

[Rob Cole]

I picked up the anvil I bought today.It's a beautiful Fisher that weighs in at 158 pounds. The sad part is I have to drive around with it in my trunk for another week when vacation is over.

 

[artificialj]

Wow - that thing looks great. Super crisp edges!

 

[Kentucky]

Thats nice, you'll like working on that fisher..Good anvil, good rebound.

 

[Rob Cole]

The other side is more beat up, but the top and this side are pretty flawless

 

[Fred.Rowe]

You will love working on the Fisher. As you can see by the seam along the side, Fisher anvils are made in two pieces with a steel surface as the working face.

I have a 300 pound Fisher, not in as fine a shape as this one; that is a joy to work on.

Hope it doesn't hurt your gas mileage to much. Fred

 

[Wulf]

Beauty - congrats. I've got a nice 300# Fisher as well and love the thing. Fishers' faces stay dead flat even after decades of use, and rebound is always sound. I'm sure you'll enjoy many years of use with that anvil

 

[godogs57]

Congrats! My Fisher is 126 pounds and I love it...

 

[Salem Straub]

Congrats. Fishers are the best I've worked on. I love 'em.

 

[Kentucky]

. Fishers are the best I've worked on.

Me tour fisher sees all the work. We also have a trenton, a Arm & hammer and a hay budden...All these are good anvils but its like forging on a church bell..Espically the forged Arm & Hammer anvil, its painfull to hear ring. It has to be wrapped with about 15' of chain before you can stand it..The fisher has the same rebound but sounds like hitting a sack of wet leather..

 

[Rob Cole]

I'm running out of trunk space. We may have to leave our clothes so the tools will fit. I picked up a nice post viSe this morning. I haven't weighed it yet but it feels like 60 pounds or so.

 

[stevomiller]

Coleslaw, I'd say you're well on your way to building a nice shop! Maybe I missed it - whatcha have planned for a forge?

 

[Rob Cole]

No forge yet, but I'll be building/buying one within the next few weeks. My main forge will be propane, but I'd like to have an old coal forge too just for the hell of it.

 

[J. Hoffman]

What are the advantages of a post vise? My dad has one in his garage, and I never cared for it.

 

[Kentucky]

Its made to take abuse..You can forge on it, forge on a regular bench vise and it will bust...

What are the advantages of a post vise? My dad has one in his garage, and I never cared for it.

 

[insanity]

The stresses of hammering are transferred through the leg into the floor. The bolts and/or the bench don't have to take the stress.

Wayne S