[TheForge] Anvil Orientation (seriously)

[Chris Worsley]

Phil,
After working my way through 35 completely useless postings from 
theForge, I arrive now at the most unimportant of all!
Glad to see this topic pop up again, zzzzzzzzzz.
I am now standing the anvil on its heel, using only the tip of the horn.
Of course, I am right handed, and use a coal fire.
If a left handed person wants to use the anvil, that person is free to 
change it if he can move 225 pounds.
(John Allgood was not "all good" I guess)

Actually, Aaron is right. It is all preference, and personal common sense.

In reality: Horn to the right-with room to dance around the anvil,
Chris

Phil wrote:

>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. 
>  
>