ThomasPowers

CRS could be right; I was online about blacksmithing back when it was all text; old unix programmer, I could have a pretty bad table saw accident and not slow my typing down... Not finding other than London Pattern: have you looked through the gallery on link removed.

Making your own would probably cost MORE than buying them; blacksmiths used to buy them you know...(Just making a proper kiln to fire fire brick would cost more than buying a pallet of them!)

Actually I prefer the double horned anvils to the london pattern; have you looked at the NIMBA anvils? Massive sweet spot! Of course what you are doing makes a huge difference in what features your anvil needs. Ornamental iron work vs sharpening jackhammer bits for example. I guess you need to do a bit more research, French anvils, Italian anvils, German---both north and south, eastern European, Chinese, Japanese, Norse, Roman, Medieval anvils of a lot of different styles.... Anvils have been used for about 3000 years now by blacksmiths and the London Pattern is about 300 years at most. Hanging on my wall I have a page from an old, (probably 150 years old), catalog that shows 6 different types of anvils being sold by an English company. (And 4 different post vises.) You may notice that the anvil shown in "Mechanick Exercises", (published 1703) is not a London pattern; nor the many anvils shown in Diderot's Encyclopedia, (late 18th century); for a number of medieval anvils may I commend "Cathedral Forge and Waterwheel" to your attention. Of course these are books; the internet is NOT a great source for researching stuff you know. (You do know about ILL right?) And if you really want something different you can buy an amazing range of anvils both old and new, (seen the rat hole anvil AKA Fontanini ?) Or just make your own! Here are a couple of stake anvils we've made and a modern made early medieval anvil: Made using RR spike driving sledge heads (1 cylindrical, 1 sq cross-section.) On it's side to show the stake that goes into the stump. Simple rectangular solid anvil I have started demo'ing with; as so many people seem to think you have to have a London pattern anvil to do smithing

What about Pearl? (Fort Smith has both a Gallows and a former Bordello on the National Historic Register.) I'm a bit busy getting ready for the state fair and Quad-State, but perhaps I could do something out of rusty barbwire if I get a chance.

What's the chain for? Looks to be a quiet anvil even without it.

What size motor do you have on it?

Which of the several hundred "common" shapes for anvils used all over the world are you referring to? You do know that the London Pattern is NOT the most common pattern in the world right?

"Letter Opener" is that a fancy term for a "shiv"?

Scrapyard today: 22 fence posts for electric fence wire---for a neighbor, misc steel for myself, another ballpeen hammer head for Quad-State and a 22" wide 48" long and 12" deep galvanized trough for flowers on our front porch.

Hogan's Heroes: Col Klink had a monocle. (The actor who played Klink was also Jewish and had it in his contract that Clink would NEVER be portrayed as having any redeeming characteristics!)

Scott, you only have one vice?

I've owned a car where the heater was an accessory; if you paid for it, you got a box screwed to the dashboard with the controls on it. Back when they made different cars for different parts of the USA---1962 Buick Special sold in Arkansas.

Gewoon, can you trim the bottom to 3 protrusions to make a tripod...

Gotta replace the stuff I'm selling at Quad-State!

All I can think of is that commercial about the "Greasy Kid Stuff"...

Scrapyard tomorrow, lets hope I find some more stuff!

I like it for cooking gear as it's food safe and easier than seasoning the steel. Also easy to apply and doesn't mind typical NM conditions---like dust.

Fly, I know a smith that worked for Sandia National Labs as a smith. He was once telling us about forging Ti preforms to save 80%?? of the cost of machining and materials; can you tell us how CNC could do that? Another made the shackles for the pouring cups for a steel mill, bending 4"? steel to shape. He did it once a year and that paid the base cost of his shop for the year, everything else was gravy. There are certain jobs where smithing is still the way to go. *Finding* such jobs is the hard part.

Y'all are trying to get me moderated for discussing the closing mechanism I just know it! But I do have a vise with a purty leg!

What I hope to take to unload; severely curtailed by a large 4 door pickup truck; whose cargo limit is exceeded by 4 people riding in it. Coarse wrought iron: wagon tyre, each slab is about 3# IIRC. Screw jack for large postvise screw/screwbox replacement. Most of the stuff will be "choice; US$5 Friday, $4 Saturday and $3 Sunday till noon." I will take holds for IFI folk, good till Saturday noon.

One thing with forging: when moving with hot steel folks often pay more attention to the hot steel than to where their feet and legs are; hence the suggestion to avoid trip and snag hazards when possible. (How many of us have managed to ram the tip of an anvil horn with our leg---if we were lucky!)

A good clean split will glue just fine without planing! Of course if the original stump was chosen from wood that doesn't make a good clean split then it would not be a useful method. If you spent as much time figuring out how to make things work instead of why they won't work; you would be much further along. Good Luck!

Think of a wagon tyre; if you heat it to glowing it will char/burn the wood and stay loose, you heat to 500 to 600 degF and you can slide it on the wheel and quench it tight!

From an article on BBC news site: www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-humber-62631475 That design has some definite legs on it!

Your problem is that you don't understand the words "every living human you encounter" There were more anvils in cities than in the country you know and people who are not farmers are more likely to want to get rid of an anvil they happen to have. Last nice anvil I "found" belonged to a 92 year old lady in our church; she was happy to see it go to a good home. One of my students lived in LA and was amazed to find out there was a good sized PW anvil lurking in the family. People often complain about the price of anvils and then tell me that they are only hunting places where folks are trying to sell anvils for the most money they can get. Like saying wedding rings are too expensive and they had searched both Cartier's and Tiffany's...