[TheForge] ebay anvil

[Ralph E Douglass]

Ries Niemi wrote:
> 
> More stamp collecting.
> I am sure Hay Buddens are wonderful anvils, and I am sure if you
> routinely make chain from 2" round, you probably really need a 500lb
> anvil. But anyone who is paying that kind of money for a pretty beat up
> anvil like this is a "collector". I hate "collector's" unless they are
> collecting my work. All they do is drive up the prices of tools that
> otherwise could be used, so they can hoard them. And then, when they
> die, their families usually split up the stuff anyway, often selling it
> for less than it is "worth" because they just want to get rid of the
> stuff. These are the same guys who have a yard full of cool old cars
> with trees growing thru the hoods, who wont sell them because they are
> getting more valuable, while in reality they are rotting away.
> 
> Anybody who wants a really big anvil would be better off, in my
> opinion, giving their money to Russell Jacqua over at Nimba- he makes a
> beautiful 450 lb cast steel anvil called a Gladiator, that will last a
> hundred years or so, looks a lot better than that hay budden, and is
> made in america now by a blacksmith.
> www.anvils.nimbaforge.com/
> 
> ries

I must add, that I have used one of the Gladiator' anvils and I really
liked it. And I normally do not like double horned anvils, but this one
was big enough that it work very nice and if I had the $$$ I would be
getting one now. But for now I can wait....

Ralph
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