[TheForge] Johnson Forge-Anvil-tongs for $65?

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With Scouts starting out I always ask them what tool they think is the 
toughest tool in the shop and which is the most fragile.   They 
invariably pick the anvil as the toughest and usually a cold punch or 
maybe a tong as the weakest.   I tell them that the anvil can be 
permanetly damaged by a half the blow from a ball peen that the cold 
punch or tongs can take without damage.  The toughest piece of equipment 
in the shop ( my opinion) is my eight inch post vice. 

Charles

Andy Vida wrote:

>	It's not that hard to do significant damage to an anvil.
>	Then there was the time I walked into the shop at Allaire
>	to find Bozo cold hammering a bend into steel that was
>	fixed to a swage block via a wedge.  A 5# single jack
>	in each hand, wailing away like John Henry for all he
>	was worth.  By some miracle he didn't split the block.
>
>	Remember kiddies, hammers aren't for driving screws. :)
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