anvil

R Dockrell

R Dockrell

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Just aquired a anvil from a scrape heap while on a bear hunting trip in Northern Manitoba.
It has Canadian Blower & Forge Co 0668 cast into one side. Pings good and rebounds good but has some dings and is slightly dished. Can the surface be trued with a hand belt sander? Does anyone know anything about these anvils?

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Robert
Flat Land Knife Works
rdblad@telusplanet.net
http://members.tripod.com/knifeworks/index.html
 
You can clean up the face with a belt sander. I wouldn't worry about the dish too much, it can be used to straighten that blade you are working on.

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If God did not intend for us to eat animals. Why did he make them out of meat?
 
Hello,

I have a nice (mysterious) anvil, whick I straightend with my angle grinder. I bought me a bucket shape stone, specially for Hardened steel. Works fine. Faster then a belt grinder, and cheaper, but you must finish it with a belt grinder. You can even polish it.
P.S. I don't know the exact translation of the tool I called angle grinder. It's a heavy thing, on which you can mount a disk of about
25 cm diameter, and can cut anything, when it rotates at 5000 t/min.

greetings, Bart.
 
Bart, angle grinder, side grinder, or 9" grinder will work thats what we calll them also. I used an angle grinder to clean mine up also.

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Why am I good enough to fix my mistakes, but not good enough to keep from making them in the first place?
 
Thanks for the cleanup ideas guys. I have already taken the edge dings out with an angle grinder and was about to start on the face. I think I will follow mikeS idea and leave some of the dish in the face for blade straightening.
Still wondering about the origin of this anvil. The place I got it from was halfway to hell and a long way from nowhere.

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Robert
Flat Land Knife Works
rdblad@telusplanet.net
http://members.tripod.com/knifeworks/index.html
 
Did you get the bear?

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Why am I good enough to fix my mistakes, but not good enough to keep from making them in the first place?
 
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