[TheForge] anvil pointing

[A. Vida]

	On a few occasions I have been told I had my anvil oriented for
	a left hander.  Never paid it any mind.  For me, the horn to my
	right works better for curves.  One thing I greatly respect in
	Peter Ross, beyond his high art, is that he always emphasizes
	that one size doesn't fit all in terms of how to perform any
	given operation.  If you like your horn to the right, then place
	it that way.  I don't think there are any rights or wrongs 
	where things such as this are concerned.  If it works for you
	and you're not injuring anyone, then that is the way you do it.

	Several years ago at Gichner's, one of the demonstrators went
	on and on about how there was only one right way to address
	the anvil (i.e. stand next to it), and any other way is simply 
	WRONG.  While I agree that such absolutes exist, they are few 
	and far between, comparatively speaking.  I would further
	suggest that anyone instructing another in this art should take
	care in urging folks to never deviate from a technique, that there
	is only ONE right way.  I think some folks have to tailor a 
	technique to their own best use.


Jerry Frost wrote:
> 
> Being almost entirely self taught, at least till I was introduced to
> theforge and Artmetal lists nobody told me which way to point my anvil. So I
> positioned it entirely depending on how well it worked for what I was doing
> at the time.
> 
> If I have a good solid floor I'll turn it to suit during heats. Right now
> it's sitting on gravel so turning it tends to make it rock or tip so I
> positioned it far enough away from anything I can work all round it as
> suits.
> 
> Reading George's description of the which/whys of pointing the horn I
> realized it's for the same reasons I turn mine.
> 
> So I find myself pointing the horn to the right for turning the decorative
> stuff and to the left for the more industrial type work.
> 
> Frosty