[TheForge] big anvil
Demon Buddha
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Wed Jun 19 08:45:01 2002
John Frankl wrote:
>
> At over $6.00 per pound, I'll buy steak. Really, if smiths who actually
> use these things want to pay thousands of dollars, they can probably have
> something custom fabricated to their specs for less money. I just bought a
> custom made bladesmithing anvil from Chuck Robinson for $425 (It would
> have been 350 but I wanted both faces machined and hardened, which gives
> me 2 anvils for the price of 1.25). It is infinitely better than the
> London pattern for blade work and worked out to less than $2.00 per pound,
> brand new!
Chuck's cutlers anvils are very nice. I'm preparing to make
one myself.