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Maybe it's just me but I can only find anvils that I need that cost $400 if anyone out there knows where to get a cheap anvil e-mail me.
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A cheap anvil?
Oh boy, this could get dicey.
When I started my anvil search almost 2 years ago, I had no idea where to look. I started with the penny pincher weekly's and newspaper classifieds. No luck. Then I turned to the internet and finally eBay.
If you are persistent and keep a sharp eye out, you can get a good deal on eBay. You just have to get in there and stay in there until you get what you're after. Don't get discouraged by the 'misses' you'll experience. If you want more details on how to win auctions at eBay, email me. I'll gladly help any way I can.
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M.Ogg
"It's better to be thought a fool and remain silent, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt"
When I started my anvil search almost 2 years ago, I had no idea where to look. I started with the penny pincher weekly's and newspaper classifieds. No luck. Then I turned to the internet and finally eBay.
If you are persistent and keep a sharp eye out, you can get a good deal on eBay. You just have to get in there and stay in there until you get what you're after. Don't get discouraged by the 'misses' you'll experience. If you want more details on how to win auctions at eBay, email me. I'll gladly help any way I can.
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M.Ogg
"It's better to be thought a fool and remain silent, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt"
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Go to a scrapyard and get a 4" by 4" steel bar about 30" long. Stand it up (like a fence post) in a 5 gallon bucket of concrete and you have an anvil. Grind one edge into a 3/8" radius for drawing out stock. Can also use a section of railroad track for an anvil. You don't need to be fancy to pound iron. Remember there are still people out in the world using rocks to forge with today.
BlacksmithRick@aol.com
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Ricks got a great idea going, but I'd put it in a wood stump with a lead seat. Concrete tends to disintegrate. I got a 55lb anvil off of eBay. It's from China, and it's a cast iron turd. With a hard top welded on, it might be all kinds of useful, but until then, it dents like wax. I'm thinking of going in Ricks direction. The only problem is that I use hardies, so I'd need a hardy hole. A stake table would fix that need, of course...
I started with RR tracks, and they tend to be way too springy and not give the support we need for forging unless they're turned vertical. I still use them for some things, but everyday forging they tend to get frustrating.
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Oz
"I went to one of those so-called 'All you can eat' buffets last night, and I'm on to their little game.
They stop filling up the thousand island bucket after you empty it three or four times."
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I started with RR tracks, and they tend to be way too springy and not give the support we need for forging unless they're turned vertical. I still use them for some things, but everyday forging they tend to get frustrating.
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Oz
"I went to one of those so-called 'All you can eat' buffets last night, and I'm on to their little game.
They stop filling up the thousand island bucket after you empty it three or four times."
http://www.freespeech.org/oz/
[This message has been edited by Osbourn (edited 08-28-2000).]
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Point I was trying to make with my suggestions for anvils - there are a lot of ways to make do until something better comes along.
BlacksmithRick@aol.com
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The very first anvil I used was a 30lb dumbell. It had a flat and two different sized round surfaces. I made my first blade cold forging on it. A friend of mine put some boiler plate on a curb when he needed an anvil, and I've heard of people using engine blocks, but I can't imagine how.
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Oz
"I went to one of those so-called 'All you can eat' buffets last night, and I'm on to their little game.
They stop filling up the thousand island bucket after you empty it three or four times."
http://www.freespeech.org/oz/
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Oz
"I went to one of those so-called 'All you can eat' buffets last night, and I'm on to their little game.
They stop filling up the thousand island bucket after you empty it three or four times."
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Somewhere....cant remember where I saw this, but the guy used a pail of cement and he put it on the pointed part of the anvil (cant remember what it is called). Aparently he does this to cut down on both noise and vibration. Where would a person get a piece of RR track though????
Michael
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I got myself a length of railroad track at the local scrap yard. It was pretty cheap but it works. Nail it to a cut section from a downed tree and you are ready to go.
All in all, my anvil setup cost no more than $10.
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Phillip Jones
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All in all, my anvil setup cost no more than $10.
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Phillip Jones
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I found a really old 97 pound Peter Wright anvil (in very good condition) in an old 'antique' shop....the kind that sells some good stuff and lots of junk. It was sitting on the floor in one of the booths, and the guy said "I've got $125 on it, but if you give me cash, I'll take $90."
I said 'sold'. The point is, you've got to beat the bushes, but keep trying and you'll eventually come up with one....it took me 9 months.
By the way, it bounced a 1" ball-bearing about 5 feet in the air when dropped on the sweet spot of the anvil from about 3 feet...so it's not a 'dead' anvil.
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Just because the river is still doesn't mean that the alligators have gone.
I said 'sold'. The point is, you've got to beat the bushes, but keep trying and you'll eventually come up with one....it took me 9 months.
By the way, it bounced a 1" ball-bearing about 5 feet in the air when dropped on the sweet spot of the anvil from about 3 feet...so it's not a 'dead' anvil.
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Just because the river is still doesn't mean that the alligators have gone.
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Flubber anvil?
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Oz
"I went to one of those so-called 'All you can eat' buffets last night, and I'm on to their little game.
They stop filling up the thousand island bucket after you empty it three or four times."
http://www.freespeech.org/oz/
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Oz
"I went to one of those so-called 'All you can eat' buffets last night, and I'm on to their little game.
They stop filling up the thousand island bucket after you empty it three or four times."
http://www.freespeech.org/oz/
A man over on the junkyard at www.keenjunk.com said he placed an ad in the local paper wanting to buy an anvil and had more responses than he had money. keenjunk also has an online listing to buy or sell blacksmith equipment go to scrapbin.
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Sola Fide
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