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These were items that I was going to bring to Mace's hammer-in for tail-gating but which I didn't end up bringing.
Due to weight, these are pickup only at my shop in Woonsocket RI, or possibly delivery within a small radius.
First is the anvil. I'm asking $180 for the anvil and the hardy combined.
The anvil weighs about 140lbs, and (obviously) has no nose. The nose was broken off sometime a long long time ago. There are no marks on the anvil, but it's from the mid 1800s based on construction style, the small hardy hole, the presence of a pritchel hole etc. It works just fine and has a good face and good rebound and fairly clean edges. Included is a hot cut hardy which fits the hardy hole perfectly. For bladesmithing the lack of a horn isn't much of a detriment (in fact many people swear by the sea-robin anvils which have no horn and no tail)
Next up, which may not be of too much interest here, but I'll post it here anyways, is a swage block.
This is not just any swage block though, it's an original Wally Yater swage block, one of the finest blocks ever made. This block is in almost new condition, so hardly used that it still has Mr Yater's yellow wax pencil writing for the original shipping of it after he finished the block. Wally Yater hand finished each of his swage blocks after they returned from the foundry, and his pattern was designed to avoid the weaknesses of many older swage blocks where corners could crack off from stress etc. This is a substantial swage block and weighs around 140 lbs.
He made two patterns, the one here, and another which matches up to this one so that the half cone on the back continues down to a point. The last time I saw a pair of original Yater blocks on ebay they sold with buy it now within one day for a price of fourteen hundred dollars.
I don't have a pair, and I'm asking $400 for my block.
Due to weight, these are pickup only at my shop in Woonsocket RI, or possibly delivery within a small radius.
First is the anvil. I'm asking $180 for the anvil and the hardy combined.
The anvil weighs about 140lbs, and (obviously) has no nose. The nose was broken off sometime a long long time ago. There are no marks on the anvil, but it's from the mid 1800s based on construction style, the small hardy hole, the presence of a pritchel hole etc. It works just fine and has a good face and good rebound and fairly clean edges. Included is a hot cut hardy which fits the hardy hole perfectly. For bladesmithing the lack of a horn isn't much of a detriment (in fact many people swear by the sea-robin anvils which have no horn and no tail)
Next up, which may not be of too much interest here, but I'll post it here anyways, is a swage block.
This is not just any swage block though, it's an original Wally Yater swage block, one of the finest blocks ever made. This block is in almost new condition, so hardly used that it still has Mr Yater's yellow wax pencil writing for the original shipping of it after he finished the block. Wally Yater hand finished each of his swage blocks after they returned from the foundry, and his pattern was designed to avoid the weaknesses of many older swage blocks where corners could crack off from stress etc. This is a substantial swage block and weighs around 140 lbs.
He made two patterns, the one here, and another which matches up to this one so that the half cone on the back continues down to a point. The last time I saw a pair of original Yater blocks on ebay they sold with buy it now within one day for a price of fourteen hundred dollars.
I don't have a pair, and I'm asking $400 for my block.
