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I have been wanting to get a anvil for a long time now sience i l had to leave mine in hawaii when i left. so i have been looking around but i wanted somthing not to big because i live in an apartment and i would need to take it inside when i was done. i checked with a fead and farm suplay store and thay had a 75 pounder which would be ok but thay wanted 350 bucks, ouch. so i decided i would make one. so i stoped by a tooling shop and thay had lots of nice chunks of steel but thay wanted around $4-$30 a pound. plus i would have to harden it and that would be a pain in the ass for such a large chunk of steel. then as i was laying in bed last night it hit me (not my wife, even though it has happend befor.) i know when i could get what i needed and i would be perfect. so to day i went into home depot and got there 16lb Sledge Hammer. man is this a beast and has a ok sized face on it. and its hardened. so im am going to drill a hole in a 12" x 12" x 24" beam and hammer one side of the Sledge Hammer into the hole and presto i have a anvil for 39 bucks. I think i will need to regrind the face sence it is slightley rounded and if i was to take about a 1/2" off i would get a biger face any way. but i gess my question is this. are Sledge Hammers completley hardened or just there faces, i would think the whole thing would be but im not shure. any comments would be great.
