[TheForge] Top of a broken anvil?

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

Andy:
I'd argue that lead would be the wrong material here.
The object is to provide rebounding mass that will rigidly resist the 
hammer's blow and provide the maximum immediate counterforce focusing 
the applied energy on the work.
While lead has great mass per unit volume, it don't rebound worth 
diddle, just sucks it up and gets a little warmer.
pf

A Vida wrote:
> 
> 
> 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
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