12/10/2023 0 Comments Railroad track anvil on craigslistBut these were collected over probably 5 years of looking. Then the 200 lb came with a set of tongs and a rivet forge with hand crank blower for like $200 (good solid deal). The 150 lb came from a flea market tool guy that had a nice collection of anvils and I paid $320 for I think (he even threw in a "free" hot cut hardy tool lol). Trust me, I have two anvils currently that took a good many years to round up. You could certainly use it as an anvil, but they are not being sold as potential anvils, they are being sold and treated like they are actually honest to goodness designed and manufactured for pounding steel. That's after seeing many many local ads for blacksmithing things like I mentioned. I guess my point was not you couldn't use these beam sections for an anvil, it was the outright lying by the seller about what they were that bothers me. Delivery is available too.Īs a structural engineer and soon to be again blacksmith, this is both hilarious and infuriating. I am always worried a young aspiring smith or knifemaker is going to get duped into buying something way WAY overpriced or, maybe worse, next to useless.īut today, I think I found the craiglist ad that takes the cake. Sometime it's just a random hunk of steel a scrapper thinks they can turn around for more than 3 cents a pound. Sometimes they are real tools being described/sold as something they are not. The $200 lot of random hammers, masonry chisels, jack hammer bits, and a random wrench offered up as a "very nice lot of old blacksmith/farrier tools" Those all too nice and rare $50 "old blacksmith tongs" that are really meant to carry blocks of ice. That 12" long piece of railroad track being sold for $75 because its a "vintage blacksmithing anvil".Įnough cobblers anvils being sold as "antique heavy duty blacksmithing anvils" to choke a whale. Now, you can spread the costs out by buying a little material and doing a little of the work at a time, using scrap or salvaged steel, and getting the buddy with a CNC table to slip the parts in one at a time over a few months so the boss doesn't notice.īut you're still going to have a great deal of time, welding rod and grinding discs into it.You know, when looking for blacksmithing tools, you run across a lot of things that people are selling that just aren't what they say they are. I haven't run any numbers, but I wouldn't be surprised if the eventual total cost would be either very close to, if not somewhat more than, the cost of a ready-made anvil. ![]() The problem with that is, of course, it would still be quite expensive in welding rod, electricity, plasma-table time or torch gasses, and, naturally, the base metals. Take you rime, and grind it well, and most passersby might not even realize it's laminated steel. That way each plate is heavily welded to the top plate- not just around the periphery.Įach plate would leave a "step" on the outside (such as the profile of the horn) what could be filled with weld and ground down. (And, of course, to the first lamination.)Īnd keep doing that 'til the last plate. Bevel the top edge of the second lamination, lay it down and weld it to the top plate. ![]() The trick there is to weld it on while laminating the body- bevel the top edge of the first lamination, and weld the top plate at a 90 degree angle. The number of slices, of course, depending on the thickness of the material and the overall size of anvil you desire.Įach slice profiled, of course, so that the finished unit has the overall shape of a typical London pattern.Īn ideal method would be to CAD it out and get a buddy with a CNC plasma table to zap out the pieces for you, but the same thing can be done with a bit more effort with a gas torch.Įach "inner" plate should also have a pattern of holes for plug welding- therefore the centers of each plate are also thoroughly attached, not just the edges.Īnd, for the top plate, I figured I could get a nice thick chunk of something- A2? S7? at about 1/2" thick or so, and weld that on as well. I figured I'd draw up a layered profile of an anvil- with the "slices" vertical and arranged nose-to-horn. One plan, among the more workable ones in my opinion, was to laminate one, like you noted. Not terrible if someone's going to be doing commercial work, but pretty steep for a hobbyist. Same as you, anvil prices up here- partly because of the shipping weight- are astronomical. I toyed with an idea like this years ago, before I found an actual anvil.
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