[TheForge] anvil point

Ben Barrett stircrazyben at gmail.com
Mon Feb 18 18:08:43 EST 2008


I'm pretty sure this is because the world revolves around the anvil!!
I also work around it, and although I'm a newbie and take a lot of
crap for doing things "wrong"; I do like hearing about the right way
(esp. why that is so)... and keep doing what I'm doing (the info is
merely perspective for a more-informed choice at any given moment).
Here is an additional question though:  if it feels like I want to
work something from the other side of the horn, just to even out a
piece from the directional shape of the horn, is that quite
reasonable, or should I actually be paying more attention to keeping a
ring or bell or whatnot even whilst working just one side??

I thought the thread was going to be about whether the horn points
slightly upward, which is I thought standard on new horns, or whether
it sags down a bit like one well-beaten :)  Well-beaten, like these
ongoing gags ;)

~ben


...
> Heresy Alert!
>
> Whichever way is most comfortable and suitable to how you work. Point it any
> way you need it pointed to do what you want to do at a given time.
>
> Mine points to the left until I walk around to the other side. Then it
> points to the right. If I stand facing the horn, it points right at me. If I
> stand at the other end, it points away from me.
>
> Damn thing can't make up its mind!
>


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