[TheForge] Anvil design (was: slack tub)

Thu Nov 14 10:57:00 2002

I went to an auction this summer in PA where they said they had a cannon
ball anvil.  The sides of the anvil had round depressions like a swedge
block.

-----Original Message-----
From: GHS <[email protected]>
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, November 14, 2002 10:31 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Anvil design (was: slack tub)

>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
>>
>> >>> [email protected] 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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