Hex anvil

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BradleySmall

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I recently picked up a couple hex anvils. They have a bunch of different sized holes, and a bunch of different sized slots.

Can anyone tell me how these tools are meant to be used and what they can accomplish? It seems they are meant to do something with rivets and pins.
 
000Robert said:
If you're talking about the small palm sized ones, they are for watchmakers and jewelers.
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Yes, those. But they are somehow intended to make headpins and rivets and all sorts of stuff. I assume the different sized holes are for starting heads in different sized pin material, but for the life of me, I can't guess what the slots are for.

The reason I ask here, though, is that I have seen them in the background of more than one maker's images. So I know someone has a use for them. And, this last one, I got from a box lot of a deceased knife maker.

So, someone is using them :)
 
BradleySmall said:
Yes, those. But they are somehow intended to make headpins and rivets and all sorts of stuff. I assume the different sized holes are for starting heads in different sized pin material, but for the life of me, I can't guess what the slots are for.

The reason I ask here, though, is that I have seen them in the background of more than one maker's images. So I know someone has a use for them. And, this last one, I got from a box lot of a deceased knife maker.

So, someone is using them :)
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They come in handy for all sorts of stuff. The slots are for if you need a tighter area than the holes to keep from deforming say a watch wheel or something. If you used the hole you might put a cup in a wheel or something around the pins.
I have a few of them. They come in handy.
 
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