homemade anvil.

This guy's quite a good YouT presenter on blacksmithing stuff and anvils...

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Maybe a bit small for most work, here's one of my anvils, but mounted on a stump, all right and propper.

Ian S C

These are my two.

Ian,

That is one large match and matchbox!

An anvil always seems to kick off a how far can you carry it competition or the story of the chap who got his old fella trapped between the anvil and the bench.

Mike

I used to be able to pick up my Brooks but I think I’d do my back in if I tried it now.

For many years I frequented the Anvil Arms, at Wold Newton, in East Yorkshire. There was an anvil on a stump by the front door, and if you could carry it round the pub, you got a free pint! I once managed to carry it into the bar and set it on a table. I would guess it was 1-1/2cwt or maybe even 2cwt. I only saw one guy ever do it, he was called Rocky Barnard!

For an anvil I have used an old car flywheel. Not ideal since you have to avoid the odd hole, but better than nothing.

Doug

The idea of using the moving par of a vice to make an anvil interests me. Would Kenneth Deighton be good enough to post a photograph please.

Thanks,

Alan

I have, with permission, a short piece of Welsh Highland railway line for an anvil. There is a corner of an English workshop that will be forever Gogledd Cymru.

Geoff

Everyone needs an anvil,mine is a hefty railway track section

Like the Minnie Anvils of Martin, Ian and Vic. I think mine is same as Vic's and I'm nearly ready to nail it to a lump of seasoned Laburnum -