[TheForge] (small swedish anvil)To buy or not to buy

Wed Aug 27 00:45:00 2003

Sheldon:

That's a Sodorfors and it's not all that beaten up. Edges look chipped
towards the front but the face looks reasonably flat and the horn and step
look good.

I own a Sorcoress #5 (125 lb. Sodorfors of the same pattern as the one
pictured) and it's one of the finest anvils I've ever struck. If any fault
can be laid to it is it's darned hard, a missed blow can chip an edge fairly
easily which is what appears to have happened to the one pictured.

If it was offered to me for $130 I'd take it and grind large enough radii on
the edges to dress them up.

Frosty
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If it ain't forged
it ain't real.
Wrought iron is.
The FrostWorks

Meadow Lakes, AK.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sheldon" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 12:07 PM
Subject: [TheForge] (small swedish anvil)To buy or not to buy

Hey all,

While on holiday one of my relatives noticed an anvil in a shop and thought
of me. Anyway, she asked the store owner to email some photographs of the
anvil to me so that i could see if i wanted to buy it. It is quite small,
about 20 inches (i hope that is accurate , i normally use metric) and is
badly worn. I will try to post it to photoaccess.com under the tools2
section. I already have a similar sized one but it is not in such bad
condtion.  As you can / will see it is a Goderfors made in Sweden. The
asking price is around $130 US but i could probably get it for less. The
question is, what do you think, should i buy it, is it good, should i pay
less? It would probably be best if i emailed you the pics personally because
i am having trouble with photoaccess.

Thanks in advance for the help
Sheldon Laing
Hephaestus Forge
Cape Town
South Africa
[email protected]

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