[TheForge] Re: Anvil Question

[Mike Spencer]

> ...broken Hay-Budden anvil.  The tail was broken off and is
> gone....My questions, is this something unique to Hay-Buddens?

I have one broken off through the hardy hole.  I don't think it's a
Hay-Budden.  I paid an elderly, blind, retired fisherman $10 for the
privelege of rescuing it from below the high tide line where it had
fallen when his "fish store" -- fisherman's workshop -- blew over many
years before.

On Sable Island I found the heel of one so broken but there were lots
of other curious beach finds to bring home and I left it there.  Some
years later I mentioned this to a smith from New Brunswick and he said
he owned the anvil from which it was broken.  I forget his yarn
accounting for how he came by an anvil from the lifesaving station on
Sable but he was pretty convincing.  Small, weird world.

> And has any one on the list repaired one broken like this and how
> did you go about doing it?

Not me, but I once saw one that had been repaired by V-ing the two
pieces, pouring in a lot of filler rod and grinding smooth.  Looked
sturdy and workmanlike only the result was a rectangular -- not a
square -- hardy hole.  Gak!

- Mike

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Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada 
                                 
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http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/