[TheForge] Peter Wright anvil

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

Maybe slamming the point of a drift into the soft side of the anvil to 
knock the drifted piece loose?

Gladish Family wrote:

>Ralph said,
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>>   I ask because the two larger anvils have so many punch marks
>>on the side
>>of the numbers that it is hard to read them.  It looks as though
>>someone did
>>punched copper lanterns on the side of them.  Someone suggested
>>to me at one
>>time it might have been to check the hardness of a punch or
>>chisel.......but
>>that didn't make sense to me it being wrought iron and all.  I figured it
>>was a bored welder with a chipping hammer -as they both came out of a
>>machine shop where the father started as a blacksmith, and the son who
>>continued the business was a fabricator...........and impatient
>>as I recall.
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>I have a Trenton with the same feature, but the pockmarks are really small,
>like prick punch size.
>Have always wondered why somebody would spend their day hitting the side of
>an anvil hundreds of times with something sharp, but it's just about got to
>be part of some operation or other.
>Andy g.
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