[TheForge] Coak and weird anvil

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The anvil looks like it is "cast" steel (shaped like a Fisher Anvil).  There is a very similar corrosion pattern on the face as well as the table/cutting shelf which I think indicates that the face is not a piece of  steel welded onto an iron casting, but that the entire anvil is of one cast/material.  As we all know, iron and steel rust very differently.  Could it be that the unusual shape under the heel is actually a piece that has broken off?

And re my thoughts on "fear of government spying", I mean WTF, here we are a bunch of blacksmiths, with very few of us being active cocaine addicts, and we are discussing means of keeping Uncle Sam out of our business - I think that Bruce bringing up the subject is both important and appropriate.  With the events of last night in Paris, let's all guess if "profiling" will no longer be illegal, but most likely the FIRST line of defense.  
Paranoid Mike Schermerhorn
Boston
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Spencer <mspencer at tallships.ca>
To: theforge <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Fri, Nov 13, 2015 5:34 pm
Subject: [TheForge]   Re: Coak



Mike Schermerhorn wrote:

> Having just re-read Orwell's "1984"; and with
Bush & Co, abolishing
> our Bill of Rights (the Patriots Act), and the
revelations of spying
> on our citizens disclosed by Ed Snowden, why would you
risk having
> these a--holes putting you on their list.

I'm probably already
on some lists.  I wasn't a political activist in
the 60s but, by happenstance,
I was around a whole commune of such
people.  One faction of the Liberation
News Service, radical but
non-violent, bought the farm house I'd been renting.
[ObSmithing:
where I set up my first forge in what had been the 18th c. kitchen
of
the original house, by then a woodshed.]  It was pretty clear that
they
were targeted by the Cointel guys.  I was even once introduced to
a kinda odd
and stiff hanger-about who, my radical friends said, was
an undercover FBI
agent.  He denied it, of course.

> Maybe I'm too old for this discussion, but
I remember clearly the
> days of early involvement in Vietnam, where if you
said anything
> negative about it, you made the FBI list....

Just so.  And
now, with habeas corpus toast and administrative
assassination unremarkable,
it's more worrisome.  But, you know, Nil
illegitimo carborundum.

Back to
smithing (before the List Mom intervenes): An acquaintance
bought the anvil I
posted about for C$200 (dickered down from $600) and
still wonders if anyone
knows anything about it.

   
http://www.kijiji.ca/v-hand-tool/bedford/antique-anvil/1113187499


-
Mike

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