Big Stock, for an anvil

Sam Salvati

Sam Salvati

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Stopped by to visit my friend Robert Eggerling, damascus maker extraordinaire. Robert collects alot of cool stuff, a smith through and through hehe. I bought this here round, the smaller of two he has. It's 10 1/4" round and 11 1/2" long, 268 pounds. I will be making a special anvil with it, more photos here as I go along.

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Great find, I'm still looking for a giant chunk of steel to use as an anvil... after paragon takes my money next month, I may have to give up and start saving up for a Nimba.
 
That reminds me- I worked at a big jobsite in Hawaii, one day I noticed that one of the BIG hydraulic chipper bits from one of the large excavators had been abandoned due to dullness. I asked around whether it would be sharpened or taken away, and was told I could HAVE it. Me and the boys all piled out of the truck after work not long after to try to move it- four of us and we could barely pick one end up. Probably 8 or 9" thick round by 5' long or more, solid. I don't know what they make those out of, but I bet it would make a great anvil. My plan was just to bury the business end in the ground and use the flat top as a post anvil.

I meant to get up there with the Gradall for several weeks- one day I saw it was gone. Still kicking myself over it, but it's not as if I could have shipped THAT home. As it was, I could barely manage to ship 1200 lbs. of smithing tools home, after giving much of it away.
 
Sam, round post anvils are awesome and that one is massive! Much better for knifemaking in my very limited experience. After using one at a hammer-in, I had to build one. I sunk a 6x6 in concrete to put a regular anvil on, but it didn't work very well. It works great with the post anvil, though. A 6x6 isn't big enough, but I'm sure you could get a broken telephone pole(probably free) to sink in the ground and mount it on.

Sam, could you e-mail me your mailing address. I've got something I want to send you.
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My idea is, to make different kinds of dies, and mount them to the top front side, then hang a small helve hammer off the far side. Multiple shapes able to be bolted to the front and far sides for different things, cutters, swages, radii. Raise the whole thing up on heavy steel legs/stand, tong racks and stuff underneath. No need to attempt to harden some giant block, when all I need to harden is separate smaller blocks.
 
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