![]() ![]() Thank you very much collector4evr, blunderbuss2 & trunkman An anvil is never to be hit directly with a hammer, there needs to be something between the hammer and the anvil face. Thank you very much for the kind words jimborasco, glad I could help. He said his father told them that he wasn't mad, but just wanted to know HOW!? Again, good job!Ī South African friend told me that he & his father came back to their shop 1 day and found that his" local" help had broken the horn off of his anvil. Way to go packrat! i've been looking for an anvil and if you don't mind i'll use your photo as a template.i have a line on a piece of rail. I like your little rail anvil, it's partly the reason I went and dug out my old beast and posted it. It took me a while to re-find your post, lol. If you can't find one, make one, great job! Thank you very much for visiting gargoylecollector, ttomtucker & bushrat for the kind words. Thank you very much for looking michelleamieux, Longings, & Hedgewalker. Thank you very much chevy59, TRIKER & scandinavian_pieces, appreciate the love. The RR track was actually unearthed during a hospital remodeling project.įhrjr2, eat your Wheaties and you will be fine. Thank you very much for all the love and kind words ThriftyGypsy, trgrubaugh, Lumpy, Dr_Rambow, officialfuel, pickingupbones, walksoftly, BELLIN68, fhrjr2, leighannrn & scottscuff. We will be watching the news for reports of train derailments and not riding, Hehehehehe!! Wish I was still young enough to lift one. I have quite a few chunks of rail sitting around too!Ī super nice job. I actually needed one of these little ones he other day when I was straightening some small metal bits on of of my toy cannons. Wow, kudos for the effort on all that work. Nice to have the equipment, time and tallent to do that. Thank you very much, I appreciate it, that was very nice. Thank you very much for looking, hope you enjoy it. There you have it, a great little anvil, better then the ones you can but today.įor all of you not familiar with blacksmithing or metal working, I have included a drawing to show what the various parts of an anvil are called. In order to get the temper back, I reheated it back up to around 1000-1200 degrees and quenched it in a bucket of old motor oil. ![]() Next I drilled the round hole and cut the square hole. After that I put it on a milling machine to cut all the flat surfaces, and shaped the horn with a grinder. Next I rough ground it to shape with a grinder. With the metal soft, I was ready to proceed. I annealed it by heating it up with a rose bud to around 1200-1500 degrees, then I buried it in a box of warm sand for two days. I needed a small anvil to do a job and could not find what I wanted.Īfter finding the piece I needed, I had to soften the metal since RR track is so hard. I would like to share a photograph of this anvil I made out of a piece of railroad track several years ago. ![]()
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