[TheForge] big anvil

[John Frankl]

Sounds extremely cool. Pictures please when you finish.

John

On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Demon Buddha wrote:

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> John Frankl wrote:
> >
> > Nice. Are you using Chuck's steel and hardening it yourself, or do you
> > have something else in mind? I'd like to hear your plans. If you check out
> > Chuck's video ($25.00 and it shows each step that goes into making the
> > anvil, worht every penny) you will see that there is a ton of work
> > involved and a ton of high tech/high dollar equipment used to do that
> > work. All in all, his anvils are a great bargain.
>
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> No, Marshall came into a load of large round stock and heavy walled
> tubing.  I intend on machining two flats into the top 6 or 8 inches of
> a 6" round, four inches apart and parallel.  This will give a 4x6 face.
> I will round the edges (all four including the curved) with differing
> radii for fullering tangs or what have you.  The bottom will be bored
> out to accept a 20 or 30 ton hydraulic jack.  The anvil will sit into
> a heavy walled tube which will be part of the base.  The jack will
> enable a significant range of adjustability in height.  The parallels
> cut into the actual anvil will also serve as a keyed mount for tooling.
> The tube will have a cinch to seize the anvil and prevent it from
> turning.  Releasing the cinch will allow me to swivel the anvil as I
> please.  I have also considered incorporating a thermal choked design
> to keep the heat in the working face.  I'm not sure it is worth the
> effort, though.  In the case that it is, I would make the actual face
> of the anvil from a block of M2 HSS.  Hard and tough as hell.  The
> design of the choke is evading me a bit, I must confess.  It's easy
> if I don't mind welding the face to the body, but I would like to make
> the anvil more readily maintainable than that, if practically doable.
>
> For the record, I think Chuck's anvils are tops.  I'm one of those
> retentive loons that has to do it himself for certain things and this
> is one of them.  It's perhaps more an exercise in design than anything
> else.  I have not built a whole lot kf knives in the past few years,
> though I'd really like to get back into it one of these days soon.
>
> I did forge a LONG carving knife from D2 by hand.  Forging D2 SUCKS.
> I won't be doing that again any time soon, I can promise you.
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