[TheForge] Anvil repair workshop in NJ (was: Old tools)

[Jerry Frost]

Unless I'm mistaken (If you believe THAT!) I think this isn't anvil 
repairing with an arc welder. I think any welding is forge and hammer done 
by and under direction of a smith who does this often as in several times a 
week. There's been a thread w/pics on another site talking about some very 
fine repair jobs done on anvils without heals, horns, faces, etc. Of course 
I could have this clinic confused with another fellow's work. Stupid TREE!
Jer
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "peter fels & phoebe palmer" <artgawk at thegrid.net>
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Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 1:55 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Anvil repair workshop in NJ (was: Old tools)


>  Be extremely reluctant to weld on an anvil that has any life left in it.
> Many functional anvils have been ruined that way.
> The HAZ from any welding bead ruins the temper and grain structure of
> the adjacent face.
> In the long run, most welded-on anvils will catastrophically fail under 
> use.
>
> On 10/13/2010 1:17 PM, Bruce Freeman wrote:
>> Well, in NJ you can get cheap Chinese anvils at Fazzio's any time you
>> like.  As one fellow asserted:  "That's a better anvil than you are a
>> blacksmith!"  (True for many of us, but certainly not all.)
>>
>> Meanwhile, if you have a beat-up anvil that you like, NJBA is holding
>> another anvil-repair workshop on Nov. 13 in Howell, NJ.  See our
>> website for details (http://njba.abana-chapter.com/ then click
>> "upcoming meets")