[TheForge] Anvil shaving 101

[Chris Kilpatrick]

There was a great set of pictures of an anvil left unattended that was being heated to forge weld a new face on.  The anvil top looked like craters of the moon!  Totally destroyed the project.

-Chris K.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Tull" <dantull at numail.org>
To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Anvil shaving 101 
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 18:55:06 -0400

> 
> 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>
> To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
> 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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