My new old Anvil

[warthog1981]

I had asked my dad to ask his scrap merchant friend if he could keep his eyes open for a small anvil for me and hes come up trumps for me it weights around the 60kg ish
This is what it looked like when I got it today

And after a wee while it now looks like this

So its another good toy to play with

So big thanks to Porky Bell for the anvil

cheers Russ

 

[Hugo]

Looks nice.
Should I be feeling sorry for your neighbours.

 

[salan]

Very nice!
wish I could get one but the ones on eckbay etc cost too much in postage and I havn't seen any around here for sale.
Alan

 

[Mesquite]

That's a small anvil??? I dread to think what you'd get if you'd asked for a large one

Nice bit of foraging there Russ

 

[ged]

That's a small anvil??? I dread to think what you'd get if you'd asked for a large one

One like this, it weighs about three times as much. Makes me sweat.

http://www.jubileegroup.co.uk/JOS/misc/p003_06.jpg

 

[launditch1]

Nice.Any numbers or stuff like that stamped on it?

 

[warthog1981]

I did say to him anything that I can lift and he knows I can lift a fair bit

No there no stamps or marks on it

cheers Russ

 

[launditch1]

I asked about markings just out of nerdy intrest in anvils!!
Your lucky to have such a flat surface..mines like a 'u'!

 

[warthog1981]

Looks nice.
Should I be feeling sorry for your neighbours.

nah I'm nice to my neighbours I work reasonable hours nothing to early or to late and there the same for me

cheers Russ

 

[warthog1981]

launditch1 no worries if you look closely at the pictures you can see its faced with a steel plate I don't know it it came as standard with it of if its been refaced

cheers Russ

 

[Nightwalker]

That's not small! But it is a nice one. Any tips on cleaning it up and keeping it rust free? I once cleaned up a small anvil (to small for my uses) which was extremely bad, lightly oiled it but the rust returned badly.

 

[warthog1981]

I cleaned mine up with a wire brush in a small angle grinder and rubbed oil on it with wire wool and its fine for a few weeks but you need to top it up every now and then

cheers Russ

 

[locum76]

If anyone wants it, I have an anvil just like that which needs to be loved. I have no love for anvils, you can't grow anything on them.

 

[Toddy]

Speak to Everything Mac about that one

There's been a solid suggestion for a knifemaking course at Comriecroft, and an anvil like that would come in awful handy

cheers,
M

 

[Nightwalker]

If anyone wants it, I have an anvil just like that which needs to be loved...

If only you lived a little closer!.. im in search of an Anvil.

 

[sticks65]

You got a good en there Mate.

Nice one on the clean up too.

 

[Chinkapin]

Anvils will eventually get a nice even brown patina. No doubt a form of rust, but it seems to stop right there. I have an anvil that has been in the family since the 1950s and it was an antique when purchased. It has received no care and looks the same today as then. The surface is smooth and not pitted at all.

 

[Everything Mac]

just sent Locum76 a pm.

that anvil would indeedy come in awful handy for the knife making course.


You have done a good job with that anvil Russ - looks really nice!!

The bashing is infectious isn't it

Andy

 

[Paddytray]

What did you use to clean her up so well . I ask as I've got a tiddler of a anvil that needs tlc

Paddytray . ;

 

[jiffi]

Obviously this makes me look like a dunce but I have an anvil but not the peg/dowel thing what is it for?