- Anvils: A beginner buyers guide - I Forge Iron
This anvil has some sway, Personally this is the most I could work with but some folks are perfectly happy with more sway The anvil is in otherwise perfectly good condition and well worth having This anvil however has excessive sway The face has dipped significantly and even the heel has been bent
- List of makers currently producing anvils - I Forge Iron
This is a list of manufacturers currently making anvils for blacksmiths and farriers: Accaciao - China, cast 1045 steel, hardness unknown Atlas Anvil - USA, cast 1050 steel, 60 RC B W - China, cast 6150 steel, 58-60 RC [William] Barnhart - USA, cast 50MN steel, 57 RC Big Blu - USA, cast steel
- Anvils: Why, Where, and How - Bladesmiths Forum Board
An anvil is a bottom tool, the top tool is your hammer, much of the time, or some other struck tool The anvil has a number of surfaces built into it (such as the horn, and if yours still has any, sharp edges and corners) It also has a tool holder (the square hole) called a Hardy, and it may have a smaller round hold to assist you in punching
- Peter Wright Anvil. Best method to sell? - Beginners Place - Bladesmith . . .
While the steel face is ~3 8" thick, it's very shallow-hardening steel The full hardness only extends about 1 16" into the face If that hard surface is ground or milled off, it kills the rebound, which also kills the value of the anvil As Jock Dempsey used to say, an anvil was not meant to be a precision reference surface, it's just mostly flat
- Why is anvil rebound important? - I Forge Iron
It is more important to hammer quickly, than to use a heavier Hammer The effort of an Anvil is the return of the effort of the Hammer, the hammer effort is on the top, the Anvil effort is on the bottom (albeit over a greater contact point) All heavy work on the Anvil, should be over top of the Waist where it has the most support and return
- Fisher - Anvil Reviews by brand - I Forge Iron
Fisher Anvils: Made in Newport, Maine(1847 - 1852), then in Trenton, NJ at the original Trenton plant(1853 - 1961), then finally by Crossley Machine Works (1962 - 1979) Currently owned by Joshua Kavett, Howell Tnsp, NJ Made by a unique method of casting iron over the tool steel plates to implem
- Anvil Reviews by name or brand - I Forge Iron
If you have used these anvils please post a review of that anvil to include weight, dimensions, and how the anvil worked for you Photos are encouraged Please include how you found the anvil and any history of YOUR anvil This should be much like a book review, only an anvil review, where you comment on the specific anvil
- Identifying an anvil brand - Bladesmiths Forum Board
Yep, That's definitely a Southern Crescent! The top shows the damage usually associated with the lower tier of steel-faced cast anvils, but considering the only other Southern Crescent I've seen in the flesh had a 1 4" wide strip of steel left down the center with an inch or two of the cast chipped away on both edges, looking like a big hot cut instead of an anvil face, that one is in pretty
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