[TheForge] EK has new steel junkies....;-)

[Phlip]

Dan Tull skrev:

> > Our anvils, too, ran the gamut, from several high quality modernish
anvils
> > (one was a Peter Wright) to a Mousehole (about 200 years old- that style
> was
> > last made in 1796) to a large selection of RR track anvils, from the
> chunks
> > of track I had purchased to give to the people who took my forge
building
> > class, to the various modifications I and Johan had made to make the RR
> > track anvils into something closer to a modern anvil. Grimbold brought
> > several useful chunks of steel, too, ranging from small anvils made in
the
> > Medieval style, to special purpose anvils.
> >
> Mousehole didn't start producing anvils until 1794.
> M&H Armitage appeared in1827.  til 1933 all in the old English pattern.

Well, I was going on what John Husvar said- he told me they stopped punching
the hardy and pritchel holes in 1796 (I believe) and these are punched.

You also asked:

>> several useful chunks of steel, too, ranging from small anvils made in
the
>> Medieval style, to special purpose anvils.

> Please describe what is a medieval style anvil.
> Block of iron?

Basicly, yes. These were set up from medieval pictures- basicly a block of
iron. Also, most of the folks I'm writing for are non-smiths, and I'm
targetting my information accordingly- trying to get even more steel junkies
going ;-)

We should have a bunch of pictures available in a few days- I'll let you
guys know where as soon as I do.

Phlip