[TheForge] Anvil shaving 101

[robi5515 at bellsouth.net]

Hey Justin,
I make anvils and my advice is don't screw with it
As long as it has a decent hammer rebound and you can work on it leave it 
alone.
You don't know for sure whether it has been surfaced before. If you can find 
some one with a set of Rockwell files, the optimal RC is 50 to 55.
If you dress the face and try to harden it you might mess up the face to 
body weld.
Chuck
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Justin Fellenz" <sunironworks at yahoo.com>
To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 4:11 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Anvil shaving 101


> Jeez, thanks guys, you're a big help. I think you could get it hot
> enough and I think you could get it quenched, but tempering accurately
> might be tough. Anyone know what the hardness should be? THoughts on
> tempering such a beast? Spose if I get this figgered out I could just
> make me a new anvil...
>
> Hmmm...
>
> J
> --- Phlip <phlip at 99main.com> wrote:
>>
>> Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...
>>
>> > > Along the same lines...
>> > >
>> > > my spare anvil is a 275 pound peter wright that's pretty flat but
>> > > seriously chipped up on te endges and more than a little dinged
>> on the
>> > > face. I was thinking of hard surfacing it or at least grinding
>> off the
>> > > chips to a nice rounded edge. Thoughts about hard surfacing?
>> > >
>> > > I was also musing about whether it would be possible to
>> reharden....I
>> > > wondered if you could build a good coal fire and heat it up by
>> hanging
>> > > it upside down in the fire and then quench it and then
>> temper...dunno,
>> > > pretty heavy piece of iron and I really don't have an idea about
>> the
>> > > specs. Thoughts?
>> > >
>> > > JRF
>>
>> Dan said go for it- I agree- I wanna watch ;-)
>>
>> Saint Phlip,
>> CoD
>>
>> "When in doubt, heat it up and hit it with a hammer."
>>  Blacksmith's credo.
>>
>>  If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not
>> a
>> cat.
>>
>> Never a horse that cain't be rode,
>> And never a rider who cain't be throwed....
>>
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