![]() ![]() What are these changes? From a basic block to the addition of a horn and a rectangular face to work on. Certainly it's gone from some sort of square block to what we have in working shops until basically the end of the era where our tooling was replaced by welders and grinders. Lets look at the progression of anvil design across time. I would suspect the setup and tooling would be pretty similar to any shop in basically Europe at the same time. I've never seen any finds on a viking village smithy. Having spent 4 years in the Navy what's still strong in my mind is space limitations onboard a ship both on the Individual items and our shops tools and spare parts. Smelt wrought and forge from this parts for replacement and repair. And when they got to Nova Scotia, they had a choice. Did you ever consider the connection between the two? Weather it's been stayed or not, what struck me about the chest of tools was that it is a blacksmith s sea chest of working tools. The buried chest with a complete setup including small anvil and the kilns made by Vikings to smelt bog iron into wrought on the Nova Scotia coast. The archaeological finds surrounding the Viking era are fascinating. Do note that I said 1' depending on speciality. Good luck, be safe, and remember it's supposed to be fun. I'm glad you got the supplies you needed and I can't wait to follow your progress. As they say though, "Two heads are better than one." There's been many times I've asked for advice here and was suggested a way of doing something that hadn't or wouldn't have ever occurred to me. My car died last year and it took me about six or eight months to save up enough for another vehicle.Īdvice is great and definitely should be heeded if it comes from IFI but it's not the only or best way to go about whatever you're trying to accomplish in many cases because who knows your situation better than yourself? It's about what works for you at your location with your equipment. I understand what it's like not having a ride too. When I actually seen how little I really needed to do basic smithing I felt like I could have used that time a little better. I did a lot of preparing and research etc over the course of about two years. I was just saying I can empathize with you. the legs are made of 2圆s and the top board stick up above the base of the anvil slightly. Also in terms of the legs being under the anvil, they are. As for the stand I am able to go to home depot today, so i am going to buy whatever material i can afford and figure it out from there (if something else happens to be figured out before hand i can likely get at least a partial refund by reselling it to my brother). The reason is that everywhere Is that I just don't live in a friendly neighborhood. when i said i am in a bad place for steel, the reason isn't due to seclusion or stuck up neighborhoods. ![]() You can just call me trace if you like, it is my name after all. ![]() I have no bicycle, no friends (very important one there, since not many people believe me), no drivers licenses, and certainly not a car. As i have said i have no mode of transportation except for a maximum of once a month. Sorry i haven't been on in awhile I have been trying to figure this out, and to be honest i thought people were done replying to this post. Somebody put a lot of work into making that horn. This especially fits the KISS principal in your case. Mount it horizontal, use your horn, and enjoy maximizing the flat surface that you will use most of the time. We blacksmiths do what we can with what we got, sometimes and until we can upgrade.ĭon't limit your flat surface/ face. Will you find something similar in our contemporary time in India or Africa? I'm sure there is a youtube out there showing just that. I have seen many pics of old medieval anvils etc. Did they have the same square footage as that lil bit of square on a vertical RR track? I can't imagine that. What did they have before that? A rather large often square flat surface pwrhaps a foot or so square depending on speciality. A few here will say that the horn was a late addition in anvil development. For crying out loud, it's cross section is an I beam! Look at any contemporary plywood floor/roof joist( a piece of 3/4" plywood with a 1" square piece of pine top and bottom spanning large spans advertised as no squeak/ no sag floors! Drive a train over it? Different situation, the property of the steel is certainly made to flex. Even if you mount it on each outer edge and minimize surface contact and your daily driver is a 16# double jack, it will not flex. Your anvil layed flat will not flex, no matter what. Lol, I'm the semi official- nay Sayer on putting your rr track vertical.įirst let's look at flex. ![]()
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