[TheForge] Top of a broken anvil?

[firecracker131 at verizon.net]

well as for who made it im lost but for a base you could get some sheet or plate and weld it in to a prymidal shape with the tip missing, fill it with sand the weld the anvil to a piece of sheet the size of the opening of pyramid, place anvil welded to sheet and hit a few time to balance out.
sydney foster
From: Jim Beard <regionalchaos at gmail.com>
Date: 2008/09/08 Mon PM 01:48:56 CDT
To: blakkpawss at yahoo.com, 
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Subject: Re: [TheForge] Top of a broken anvil?

Not sure how you want to mount it, but by your description it is a
farriers anvil (nothing wrong with that :).  They commonly have (had)
two pritchels and and the offset surface you mention.  That may or may
not help you determine the maker, if you are inclined to.

Maybe a bucket of sand would be your best bet to mount it?  I'm sure
others will have better ideas..

Jim
Drain, OR

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Jonathan Barnhart <blakkpawss at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I've been looking for a bigger anvil to work from lately.  My 70lb. Swedish Kolswa is a nice anvil, but I need more working space.  While digging through a and selling scrap from my Grandpa's old farm we found the top of an old anvil.  When I say top, I mean the base was cut off of it at about the point where most anvils neck in.  The narrow spot between the top and the legs of the anvil.  So, it has no base to mount it.  Also it has no maker marks visible on it.  They must have been cut off with the base.  It's somewhere around 2-2 1/2' long.  I'd guess that at one time it was between 125 and 150 lbs.    The working surface is long and narrow.  It has a small offset working surface on one side of the horn.  It has one hardie and two pritchel holes.  There is no step on the horn.  I can't afford a new anvil right now, but I might be able to put a base on this one using scrap that I already have.  Or at least devise some sort of cradle to mount it
>  solidly.  Any suggestions or tips?  I have pics, but I'm not sure how to post them safely on here.
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