[TheForge] Anvil shaving 101

[Dan Tull]

Chuck is a spoil sport.
We want video.
I guarantee you , you can sell copies of that.
Everyone wants to know how to temper their anvils ( or not).


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <robi5515 at bellsouth.net>
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Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 6:52 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Anvil shaving 101


> 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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