[TheForge] Coak and weird anvil

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A 300# anvil in the trunk of your car - Paul you have all the markings of a blacksmith!  Heck if you bought the anvil you might as well give it a go.  I know plenty of guys that started out smithing beating on piece of RR track or some chuck of metal.  Good luck with it.

Mike Schermerhorn
Boston
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul M Dunphy <paul73 at ve1dx.net>
To: theforge <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sat, Nov 14, 2015 9:01 am
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Coak and weird anvil


On 14/11/15 08:59 AM, Michael via TheForge wrote:
>
> 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?
>

     I was the purchaser, and will get it in a
spot where I can take 
better photos of it and put them on my web site later
today.  It has 
been removed from the "For Sale" site, so the link Mike Spenser
provided 
won't work now.  The pictures were not great there, anyhow.  I too
was 
struck by the consistent rusting.  More info is coming!

     There are
markings under the rust that I'll see if I can get more 
legible once I get it
out of the trunk of my car and into my shed.  If 
it is cast steel as you
suspect, is it at all usable?  I'm a newbee at 
this and Mike Spencer has
already warned me about ASOs!  I would guess 
if it is steel it is not
completely useless.  I don't see myself 
becoming a full bore blacksmith, but I
will want to pound on it to some 
degree.

     I'm also curious on the
weight and will put it on a set of scales 
out of curiosity.  It takes two men
in pretty good shape to lift it, so 
I believe the seller's guess of 200 lb to
be close.

- Paul Dunphy, Nova
Scotia


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