Made this as a birthday gift for a friend.
Attachment 384993
Attachment 384994
Printable View
Made this as a birthday gift for a friend.
Attachment 384993
Attachment 384994
Nice one, it is way to neat to use, might scratch it,
Thank you.
I made a stand for it too.
This is just a little experiment, if it has any help i will try it on bigger scale / replace sand with birdshots.
Stand is hollow, and filled with sand. This should reduce bouncing / vibration, like a dead blow hammer.
Attachment 385048Attachment 385049Attachment 385050
Attachment 385051Attachment 385052
Hi Tuomas
Very nice indeed. I take it that your friend has a specific use for the anvil because the shoulder edges on the deck are radiused.?
Grahame
Thank you.
Yes. He makes artworks using cutlery and roses from sheet metals.
Curved edges are used to make bends for longer sheets.
Then you don't need to have so long horn. And it could be shaped for forming petals for the roses and things like that.
There's sharp edge on the back side. That's long enough.
My poor mans anvil, I used it till I pinch dad anvil when he down sized, still comes in handy.
Attachment 385673
I came across these photos, I guess he was a blacksmith.
Attachment 398895
Attachment 398896
Anvil ... this photos are from when I built the stand for my work anvil.
Peter Wright 230 pounds or 104 KG. THe markings are 206. There is an anvil weight calculator to convert from hundredweight to kg or pounds in Anvilfire website, but not sure if it may be considered competing website.
The stand is made of RHS 5" x 2.5" x 1/4". Ancient stock gift from a neighbour who found the stuff buried in his backyard.
The stand is a tripod with a 19mm top plate and the legs filled with sand soaked in oil. Sand makes the tripod silent and oil prevents rust.
I am sorry that the photos are on their side, they are upright on my computer. The supernumerary attachment is my boat's fuel tank and shouldn't be there, yet I don't know how to get rid of it. Tried liquid paper to no avail.
PS
This anvil came with a story.
I answered an ad on ... I think it was Gumtree.
The suburb was a very posh Sydney suburb, not your usual second hand tool burb.
All went normal, the usual tyre kicking, the price was way up there, so I offered about half, and we settled half way.
The owner of the house was in his sixties and seemed a tad shy or something, like he was not in his comfort zone. To smooth things out I made some small talk and asked how he came about the anvil and if he did some smithing.
THe answer was a surprise. It turns out this was his parents house and he lived there all his life. He told me that when he was 15, a friend of the family then in his seventies, asked him if he could "-get rid of this for me".
He took it in his parents garage, covered it with a tarp, and the anvil stood there for the next 40 years.
-How old do you think it is? he asked. When I replied about 100 years, he nodded and said ... yes, that'd be about right.
And the rest is history :D
Attachment 402509Attachment 402510Attachment 402511Attachment 402512Attachment 402513Attachment 402514Attachment 402515Attachment 402517
Sometimes you get lucky. Some time ago found a 100 years old vice on Gumtree and made a stand for it. It's a bench vice but I want it to be mobile ... well as mobile as a 60 kilo vice can get.
The base is a 12mm plate 380x520mm Welded a ledge on one end where all the hammering is going to be.
The base is on a tripod, same material I used for the anvil stand.
The old cold saw struggled a bit to cut it but it's all done now. the two front legs are at 20 degree and the back leg goes out at 30 degree. Front legs are in the same plane as the front edge of the base so they do need to be tucked in a bit so not to interfere with the vice handle that is rather long.
The back leg got a counterweight just to be safe. I used 4, 5KG old gym barbell disks for that purpose. The whole shebang is over 100 kilos. https://www.renovateforum.com/images/smilies/smile.gif
I will need to increase the weight of the counterweight to 40 or more kilos since it turned out to be insufficient.
Below some photos of the tripod construction and an ad from when the vice was new.
I don't have pictures of the vice in the original state I bought it in. It had been under a workbench set on dirt floor, and after a few floods had sunken in the ground. Nothing a good clean up with a power wire brush can not do. Many of the original bolts were gone or rusted out. I had to buy replacement bolts from the US. 5/8 and square nut.
http://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb...ise-vice-4.jpg
Attachment 402518Attachment 402519Attachment 402520Attachment 402521Attachment 402522Attachment 402523Attachment 402524Attachment 402525
PS
I tried to upload photos at more than one at the time rate, but couldn't. Is there a trick to it, or one must just do it one by one?
My anvil
Chunk of forged and quench hardened 4150 from the scrap bin.
It was dissected for lab testing so I machined the 5 saw cut faces, figured I would give myself a little resignation present before leaving :D
Attachment 402740
That is one massive chunk of steel you have there.