[TheForge] Top of a broken anvil?

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

Hi Andy;
More steel or good cast iron with the maximum mass directly under the 
hammer and the best possible fit up: Minimum # of horizontal cold 
laps/joints, too please.
If you were going to use it for embossing or some other use where a dead 
blow is better, then lead is the right material.
I sound positive, but i'm only guessing as usual...pf

A Vida wrote:
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> Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer wrote:
>> 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.
> 
>     Good point.  However, bear in mind that the forces are being 
> resisted by the very solid steel parts of the new base.  The lead may 
> still damp some of the energy.  What might be more suitable?
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