[TheForge] Brian Brazeal, BS classes, Miss.

[peter fels & phoebe palmer]

On 11/22/2010 5:51 PM, Mike Spencer wrote:
> pf>  http://www.myspace.com/brazealbrothers
>
> So what *is* that thing they're using for an anvil in this pic:
>
>     http://c4.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/13/m_7ef00a638e6e4859a0fcacb728940bc7.jpg
>
> Pointer to better pic or explanation, plz?
That's one of the versions of Brian's anvil design.
Basically they  looked to be a thick slab of steel set on edge.
The top edge is segmented into different dies to work over,
including a larger flat, a couple of fuller like drawing profiles, a 
butcher, etc.
I'd guess the theory would be that you are putting the the working anvil 
mass
directly under the falling hammer, where it is most effective.
It also addresses the scarcity of decent anvils for beginners.
I saw a recent version that had some tall, stout, replaceable dies.
> (As I'm still doing dialup, it's more trouble than it's worth to fetch
> all the pics, flash, albums etc. in the hope of finding an answer.)
Understood..we managed to escape our glacial dial up ( Average 2-3K/Sec) 
recently.
I started to add up the hours i spent waiting for the bloody thing and 
concluded that the satellite ISP
wasn't so expensive after all.