[TheForge] Top of a broken anvil

[Jonathan Barnhart]

I've seen what Tim and Marian can do.  I've also seen the whole Neo-Primitive process for blade making as done By Tai Goo, Tim, Marian, and others.  I like the sentiment.  I use anything that I can recycle(especially if I can get it for free or already have it on hand).  However, I'm leary of using concrete in this capacity.  The Anvils that Tim and Marion use look like shrinks and spalls could be quickly repaired.  It would be as simple as mixing more concrete and filling the holes as they came up.  In their case the anvil is a long rectangular block which would help hold it.  In my case it would probably be smaller and would probably loosen and be hard to fix without starting over.


--- On Wed, 9/10/08, schade at acegroup.cc <schade at acegroup.cc> wrote:

> From: schade at acegroup.cc <schade at acegroup.cc>
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Top of a broken anvil
> To: blakkpawss at yahoo.com, "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Wednesday, September 10, 2008, 3:26 PM
> On Sep 10, 2008, at 1:44 PM, Jonathan Barnhart wrote:
> >
> > The next thing you know the fellow was advertising
> concrete anvils 
> > with steel tops at real anvil prices
> 
> 
> 
> Given what you have said about what you are working with I
> think some 
> kind of welding approach will be best. I'm not so keen
> on the threaded 
> rod but it will probably work. But before you get too
> worried about the 
> whole thing take a look at what Tim Lively does with about
> 50 lbs of 
> mild steel in a bucket of concrete (don't tell the
> "Guru").
> 
> http://www.livelyknives.com/basicsetup.htm
> 
> You can't argue with success like that. I have
> Tim's video and he makes 
> knives equal to any with as primitive set up as I've
> seen. I'd 
> recommend the video to any interested knife makers.
> 
> Bob