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Post by mickey on Apr 2, 2013 10:13:56 GMT -5
Well new to me anyhow, I had sold my old anvil when I retired. But now that I started gardening I found out I need to improve the tools used in the garden, and elsewhere. I cleaned the rust off the #185 pound beast and mounted it on a oak log. Attachments:
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Post by bunkie on Apr 2, 2013 12:48:12 GMT -5
looking good mickey!
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Post by oxbowfarm on Apr 2, 2013 15:03:10 GMT -5
I wish I could find an anvil. I usually end up using the flat face one of my splitting mauls set in a block. It works but only for very rough work.
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Post by templeton on Apr 2, 2013 15:43:30 GMT -5
What tool modifications do you use an anvil for Mickey?
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Post by mickey on Apr 2, 2013 17:27:09 GMT -5
What tool modifications do you use an anvil for Mickey? One of the first things I'm going to make is a hand trowel for transplanting, I've broken my share of store bought ones. On a side note I'll make the iron fittings for a canon carriage I'm making, It's a 1/2 scale mountain canon. |
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Post by mickey on Apr 2, 2013 17:33:02 GMT -5
Here's the canon. Attachments:
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Post by steev on Apr 2, 2013 19:26:00 GMT -5
Cool! What will you use it for?
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Post by mickey on Apr 2, 2013 21:06:06 GMT -5
Cool! What will you use it for? Defence against doomsday preppers  ;D No just kidding, take it out to the gun club and fire it then put it on display. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2013 12:29:54 GMT -5
Considering what it would have taken to get a bloom, this is really an impressive possession in terms of a survival situation.
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Post by mickey on Apr 5, 2013 22:17:12 GMT -5
here is the 2.5/16 inch bore. Attachments:
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Post by Al on Jan 3, 2015 17:52:27 GMT -5
I used to work for a charity which put together tool kits for despatch to various third world countries. The kit for blacksmiths included a small anvil which was made from a short section of rail track. A railway workshop which cut track for points etc. kindly cut the sections for the anvils & shaped one end into a tapered point. Apparently the track was the right kind of steel to withstand the beating of hot metal working. We also sent some old style springs from vehicle suspension as these can be forged into tools.
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Post by philagardener on Jan 3, 2015 18:57:07 GMT -5
Were you a blacksmith, Al? I've often looked around old railway beds for small bits of track but the discards are always too big to move :<o You would have to be well equipped (like that shop) to work it. Leaf springs? They still use those on trucks. After working you must have to re-temper the steel but that should be good quality starting material. |
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Post by flowerweaver on Jan 3, 2015 19:52:44 GMT -5
I'm in the market for a Pexto blow horn stake for my metalsmithing. If you guys ever see one that's for sale that's not in too rough of shape, let me know.
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Post by steev on Jan 3, 2015 23:23:52 GMT -5
I found a 12" piece of rail on the farm; I like it because it's stamped "1929", the year it was forged; it reminds me not to play the stock market.
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Post by Al on Jan 4, 2015 3:26:57 GMT -5
I am not a blacksmith, often wish I could do a bit of welding! I just worked for Tools For Self Reliance (TFSR) which recycles old hand tools for use in poor communities. We even had a machine which could cut new teeth on an old handsaw blade, made a saw as good as new once the teeth were set & sharpened! Did not work with modern throw-away saws though.
My superb old drawknife (great for de-barking poles) is stamped with a British Army symbol & dated 1915, always wonder about the hands that used it a century ago. I hope those soldiers lived to see 1919, unlike my great-grandfather who was shot in the head by a German sniper February 1915. It certainly behoves us to remember the catastrophes & stock market crashes of the past, but should also celebrate the good work done by those hands & tools. Swords into ploughshares.
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