[TheForge] Anvil design (was: slack tub)

[GHS]

WE HAVE OURSELVES A TOPIC!

John Newman, makes a swage block with a
feature that make turning things over a
breeze. If the (I believe the term is)
trunions were placed on the anvils sides
and the stand was properly designed , a
six year old could pull a couple of pins
a flip a 300 pound anvil one handed.

Speaking of anvil stands, I was very
impressed with the stand that comes with
the anvil that Tom Clark was selling at
the ABANA conference.

Mike Graf



Bruce Freeman wrote:
> 
> Better than that, we could redesign the anvil.  No reason to have an anvil sitting there like a lump on a stump.  Why not have it be a multiple-use tool.  That's what the London-pattern anvil was created for, so let's just extend the design.
> 
> I've read how some blacksmiths would tip their anvil onto its heel to make the horn stand straight up as a cone.  Problem is, most horns aren't round in cross-section.  So the first thing is to make the horn round in cross-section AND make the heel of the right length so that when you tip the anvil onto the heel, the horn points straight up.
> 
> I've also heard it said that all surfaces of the anvil can be used - the sides for a broadly curved (or flat, in some cases) surface, the faces under the horn and under the heel, even the sqare edges around the legs.  In other words, let's design in some elements of the swage block into the anvi.
> 
> Now if we step back a bit and consider the anvil stand to be part of the anvil "tool" we can modify its design to make it easier to turn the anvil into different positions.  There are probably a lot of ways to do this, which I won't elaborate on here.  Anyway, we could make it possible to flip the anvil completely over.  You could have a London pattern anvil on the top surface and a European anvil pattern on the bottom.  Why not?
> 
> Have at it!
> 
> Bruce
> NJ
> 
> >>> blacksmith@about.com 11/14/02 09:35AM >>>
> We could always bring up which way the anvil horn should point (Chris is wrong by the way), or whether borax is better or worse than EZ-Weld.
> 
> Phil
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