[TheForge] How bad are the HF cast anvils?

[Adam Whiteson]

Weygers' procedure includes a quenching step

Adam

At 06:39 AM 12/29/2001 -0600, you wrote:
>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.
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