[TheForge] Anvil Orientation (seriously)

Phil mobjak at yahoo.com
Mon Jan 10 18:41:10 EST 2005


First off, whatever Chris Worsley says is wrong,
wrong, wrong.

Second, the reason that the anvil horn points to the
left, when you're on the working side is that when I
was at Colonial Williamsburg, there were two right
handed smiths, John Allgood (the old master) and me,
and 5 left handed smiths, including Peter Ross.  If
John came to use the forge and the anvil was pointed
the wrong way, the previous user would be verbally and
physically abused. 


		
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