[TheForge] How bad are the HF cast anvils?

[Dave Brown]

At 23:31 12/28/01, you wrote:
>I have both the 110lb and 55lb same as HF advertises but from a local dealer
>in DE. The 55lb has a carbon steel face and the 110lb appears to be solid
>steel. They both have a nice ring and bounce to them , but as others have
>noticed in the  past they also have soft faces and ding easily. I plan to
>try and temper the faces using  a recipe from Alexander Weygers:

If the face is soft now, I doubt that tempering is going to help any.  If 
you're going to temper something it has to be hardened first.  Tempering 
reduces hardness.