That's a beauty. Hope you get lots of pleasure using it. Dennis.
Well done on your new purchase and it looks great!
I use a heavy engineers vice with a large flat section for my anvil type work, but yours is a better solution.
I'm also still trying to leverage a full size century old iron anvil out of a farmer friend of mine but they never seem to want to part with them!
Nick
I have 100 kilo + one in the shed, it is a bit big for my bench
That is a nice one. I have anvil envy but at the moment trying to move everything round to create a bit of bench space, can’t fill it in again! How big is it?
120 mm long
19 mm wide
47 mm high
foot is 55 mm x 36 mm
Looks good! Being made in Australia I hope it's more trustworthy than this one:
(Maybe the clue is never buy a painted one)
There's a class of anvils known to some smiths as ASOs - Anvil Shaped Objects. They include those made from cast iron, mild steel and rail track. None of them have a good rebound and some of the cast iron ones can be prone to cracking apart (especially if you really hammer on them).
If all you need is a hard surface to do some riveting on then they'll probably do, but a nice hardened steel anvil is a joy to use by comparison. I have a nice old 2.5cwt (~125kg) as well as a less nice 40kg anvil - my laptop anvil - which was bought new from Vaughns; never been entirely happy with the hardness of the face on that, although it's OK in a pinch.
BTW - not all anvils look like traditional anvils. Some of the tinsmiths stakes make useful small anvils; post anvils can be very effective if you don't need a horn and so on.
Thinking about it, I may have one that size around too... Wonder where I've put it?
It is only a little bench anvil although it is surprising how much use they can be, ( my last one disintegrated turned out to be some type metal honeycomb it came from that big country on the border of Pakistan ) i am trying to convince him to make some quality hammers, I will most likely get rough casting and finish them myself
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