[TheForge] RR Anvil - Carrie Haag

[Carrie Haag]

I also have an old pair of hammer eye tongs that shouldn't be too difficult
to convert into something more useful to me.  I think I'll make that my
first project then.

I appreciate all the advice everyone's given.


On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 3:13 AM, Vincent Nakovics <restoreman123 at msn.com>wrote:

> Carrie,
>     I preferred wood for my anvil stand. Just a piece of 6 x6 with a nice
> wide base on it. The designs on Anvilfire work well. The advantage of the
> wood is that it is easier to change as you change your preferences and they
> will change over the next few years.
>    Forge welding rebar can at times be frustrating, use new or old steel
> or iron. There is a lot of rebar that is not rated for welding and it makes
> it difficult to weld in the forge. Of course it can be done.
>    Frosty and the others are quite correct that the horn is not needed to
> the majority of your work. It is recent in history to an anvil, but has
> become the most underutilized part of the anvil for most blacksmiths. The
> really Good Guys and Master Smiths that I have had the pleasure to talk
> with all say the same, don't need it but lots of stuff can be made easier
> if you use the entire anvil, horn, step, heel, etc. Of course with a RR
> anvil you don't have one. No problem. Use bicks, swages and other shapes
> for forming.
>    There's my 1/2 cent.
>  Oh tongs, as a smart guy once said; if you can hold it you can't forge
> it. There are lots of simple quick ways to make tongs that work well and
> you won't spend a lot of time messing with them. Look on line and you will
> see.
> Have Fun and be sure to join a local Blacksmith group. I am sure there is
> one near you. They will be able to put you in contact with one or two
> Smiths near you and I am sure you find all kinds of questions to answered.
> You will learn a lot of stuff from the group, safety, techniques, tooling,
> etc.
>
> Vince Nakovics
>
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> tremendously complex items understatedly simple”.
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-- 
Carrie Haag

"If we shadows have offended, think but this, and all is mended- that you
have but slumb'red here while these visions did appear."  ---Shakespeare