[TheForge] Top of a broken anvil?

[A Vida]

Jonathan Barnhart wrote:
> When I say top, I mean the base was cut off of it at about the point where most anvils neck in. 

	That would be the "waist".

 > The working surface is long and narrow.

	Sounds like a Trenton.  Absence of a mark is a little weird, but if 
grandpa saw fit to cut the base off, who knows what else he may have done.

 > It has a small offset working surface on one side of the horn.

	Sounds like a farrier's anvil.

 > ...I might be able to put a base on this one using scrap that I 
already have.

	You want solidity, which most likely means mass.  Get some heavy plate 
and weld it to the top.  You could make a heavy box structure for the 
base and weld it to the top, filling the void with lead beforehand. 
The box would have a 1" plate welded on as a base.

	From the top:

                        |<------------>|  length of waist
          _ _ _ _ _ _ _  __          __
                        |  |        |  |
          B             |  |        |  |
          a         ____|  |________|  |____ ______
          s        |____    ________    ____|    |
          e             |  |        |  |         |
                        |  |        |  |         |<----Width of waist
          W             |  |        |  |         |
          i         ____|  |________|  |____     |
          d        |____    ________    ____|____|_
          t        |    |  |        |  |    |
          h        |    |  |        |  |    |
          _ _ _ _ _|_ _ |__|        |__|    |
                   |                        |
                   |                        |
                   |<----- Base Length ---->|

Weld this to the top at the waist, fill central void with ballast, weld 
1" thick bottom plate conforming to the base length and width dimensions 
per above.

FWIW

	=Andy