[TheForge] Anvil height

[Jerry Frost]

Sounds like a Sodorfors to me Charles, I have a 125lb and it'll make your 
ears ring using muffs or ear plugs.

Height that I've found works well is between knuckle and wrist but it'll 
depend on what you do the most. for heavy work I use my Trenton at knuckle 
height and for finer I use my sodorfors at wrist height. The Sodorfors is 
morticed into a spruce block, mounted green and allowed to shrink tighten. 
It doesn't ring like it does just sitting, chained, spiked, etc. on a block 
but it's still an ear buster. The Trenton is also a LOUD anvil though not in 
the same class as the Sodorfors but it's on a fabbed steel stand. Three rec 
steel tubing legs with a flange up angle iron frame, The anvil is wedged 
tight by light weight angle iron hammer and tong racks. Next time I'll leave 
room for another little rack frame so I can put a pan under the pritchel 
hole to catch punched slugs or other hot bits. Oh yeah, I have a shelf about 
8" of the ground for handyness. It's also very rigid so there isn't any give 
when you use the anvil for max effect.

I'll be remounting the Sodorfors on a steel stand for a number of reasons 
that suit me. A steel stand leaves me plenty of foot room so I can get as 
close as I need/want. It's a LOT easier to move around than a 100lb. spruce 
block, especially with an anvil on board. While those are enough reason my 
#1 is noise, the steel stand has a different resonant frequency than the 
anvil so they self damp. Sure the anvil rings if I miss and hit IT but it 
goes away with a single note and doesn't hold it. The Sodorfors is a 
hardened steel face on a cast steel body, both materials have nearly 
identical resonant frequencies so it rings and holds it for seconds, VERY 
loud, VERY piercing and it lasts a looooong time. Fisher anvils are so quiet 
because because they're steel faces on cast iron bodies which have very 
different resonant frequencies so they damp almost immediately.

Anywho, that's my take on it. Knuckle to wrist height or whatever YOU like. 
Steel stand for quiet, functionality, ease of movement.

I bought an engine hoist at a yard sale a few years ago so I don't sweat 
anything moving, loading or unloading either of my anvils. Hydraulics and 
wheels!

Jer
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles" <xlch58 at swbell.net>
To: "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 12:48 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Anvil height


>I have a 185lbs swedish anvil that will render you deaf in no time at all.
> Found it for my son for low dollars.  He traded it for one of my more 
> ragged
> Peter Wrights.   I tried the magnet, now it rings and buzzes.  Obviously I 
> need
> a bigger one.
>
>
> Charles
>
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> ________________________________
> From: Bob <blcksmth at wcnet.org>
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>
> A magnet under the heel of the anvil will also reduce ringing 
> considerably.
>
> Bob Willman
> The Eagle’s Anvil
> Bowling Green, Ohio
> WB8NQW
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