[TheForge] Peter Wright anvil

[Dan Tull]

You obviously don't have grandchildren!
dan tull
georgia
abba, afc, S.C. psba, obg,sofa
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Subject: RE: [TheForge] Peter Wright anvil


> Ralph said,
>
>>    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.
>
> 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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