granite anvils ??

For a work surface, I visited the local granite counter top making place. Found a huge chunk (30" x 15" x 1.5") that had chipped in the corner. They thru it away cause they'd never find a matching piece to reuse it with. It was already polished on top. I think I paid $10 for it and $5 to cut it in half and called it a day.

I use it for everything from checking flatness, to sanding, to a surface for center punching.

Steve
 
I thought it read reposessed
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:eek: :eek: Yikes! :eek: :eek:


Steve that's the same stuff I have only not as thick - I think you scored! Particularly when a stone like that costs $150 in the tool catalogs. :D

Dave
 
Dan, I remember reading an article that Wayne Goddard wrote on using granite as an anvil. I think it was in the OKCA new's letter a few years back. Think he mentioned that he got it from a head stone maker....
 
interesting anyway I got to try it
the stuff is all over the place up here
but in the rough
did you know the Washington Monument
came from Maine in two parts by barge.
and most the granite you see in
and around the capital did also..:)
that's what I'm told anyway.. :)
 
Some guys are using the granite anvils and hammers for the surface finish it leaves. I just use a rusty pitted anvil and some $hitty hammers to get the same effect:D

Mark
 
Originally posted by Gouge
Some guys are using the granite anvils and hammers for the surface finish it leaves. I just use a rusty pitted anvil and some $hitty hammers to get the same effect:D
Mark
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nope,,, not what I'm looking for
my premise is if you can forge on Granite you'll have the heat
right most the time and if it's to cold you'll
brake rock not steel structure in the Blade steel ( forging too cold)
I'm thinking it may be a leaning curve for both steel and anvil
you see a lot of chipped anvil corners.:( :)
 
I guess that would let you know if you are forging too cold. I've found that my problem was forging at too high a heat. That was with my coal forge. I'm gassy now so it is no longer a problem.

Mark
 
IG just tighten up your belt and keep the
top button of your shirtfastened
and you won't that odor so much :(

psssss't it's the hot relish
you make at work :D :D :D :D
 
George is just like a #5 double spring steel trap. He just sits there waiting for someone to put their foot in it and SNAP! :D
 
Hey Dan...im suprized that you haven't thought of this earlier...you know George's head is as hard as stone sometimes...although its cracked but im sure it would serve the purpose!:p :p :p :D
 
Oh!!!! So I am being tag team by my fellow officer's. First of all, Cheesel we know the thing on your shoulders is cracked because it is a BUTT. Now Dan, I said I was sorry that you smell especially when you come down here for the Hammer-In's. An at the nexted Hammer-In I am going to slip some of my HT relish in your beer.:D :D :p :p At least I have a bell in my belfry that rings, not like yours that is empty.:confused: :confused: :confused:
 
I forged my first two knives on a granite tombstone I got for free. Just call around to monument makers. The guy I got mine from had tons of the stuff he was just throwing away. It took a while to convince him that I wasn't some kind of wierdo. I still think he thought I was a little strange even after I explained to him what I needed the tombstone for. It works pretty well. The corners chip like crazy. It was almost impossible to forge bevels because you couldn't work near the edges of the anvil. I thought about some way to wrap steel around the top edges to hold it all together. I don't know if that would help or not. But when your working in the middle it's a great anvil. I bounced a ball bearing off it and it almost came back into my hand.
 
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