General Anvil Related Questions

Ome,
I am moving these same subject threads to the combined thread. All you do is ask, "Is this good", "is that good", "is Rc57 Ok", is S7 good for an anvil", etc. They are all on the same subject and you should post new questions in this thread instead of tying up the forum with many separate threads. Anyone who wants to answer you will clearly see that the thread is about anvils.

 

I assure you it contains a veritable symphony of flapping gas-bags! J/K j/k!!

 

Ome,
I know we sound hard on you, but you have to understand that we see a lot of folks come and go here. Many start out with the same threads as you - "I'm going to build an anvil, a shop, a grinder, a sword, a .........."

They often don't ever make a knife because they get trapped in an obsessive cycle of planning build projects...and getting nothing done.



It takes two files, a small bar of steel, and a small stack of sandpaper to make a knife. If you are very slow, it takes a month to do it ( most do it in a week or two). I seriously recommend you sit down, take a deep breath, and make a simple sketch of a simple knife ... then make it.

 

Nope.

I just don't have the time nor the energy to facilitate someone else's think tank. This place is to help others accomplish the making of knives, not facilitate a slew of one-liner inquiries that amount to a soup of nada.

Do yourself a favor and just pick up a bar of steel and ask it what it wants.

 

And just when it's about to give you an answer, you heat it up, grab a hammer and beat the hell out of it on one of your post anvils until it looks like a knife you want to grind!

 

woke someone up with the fit of lol I just had...


the wife said she'd like to beat you with a hammer after she's done burying me...

 

Pics?


Honestly Ome, even though I might come off as irritated, if you were anywhere near me I'd invite you out to the forge to get your feet wet with forging/bladesmithing. That way we could find you a conduit for all this imagination. You'd have to sign a waiver though...

chattering buttock issue;

I think you gotta a lot of work ahead of you when it comes to rebuilding your reputation here. You really stepped on it with that mini forge "review". While I didn't see your actions being malicious, I found them to be a quite ignorant, flighty, and rash. You ask us a bagillion one-liners, but didn't think for a second to ask us for help on something relatively easy? Your lack of understanding was to blame, you failed to research the nomenclature of the equipment you were buying, and you chose to ride the "made in china" train. I have no ties to that business and have never shared correspondence with it/him, but I feel for the guy having to deal with such a PITA. I couldn't imagine for a second being contractually obliged to help you, especially when you throw someones free advice back at them as to discredit them, or use their information as a catalyst to start a completely new question thread...


I humbly offer yet another paragraph of my time hoping you'll get it, even if I already know it was spent in vain.

 

Ome,
I am glad you are getting things going. We all look forward to seeing some photos and reports on your progress.

 

:thumbup: ^^^^^ THIS x2

 

Hello I am about a 2 years into metal working in general, and I have done little to no forging so far ,except recently I forged a knife out of a wrench and really liked it, any way I forged that knife on a large rock. And it broke, I just bought a cast iron anvil. And was wondering if it's good enough just to start out on? Because Ive been reading on here, and people are talks no a lot of trash on cast iron anvils. I can't afford a better anvil currently,that's why I bought the cast iron anvil

 

Marjanp145, if you bought one of those cheap HF anvils.... it's a crap shoot. Might last long enough to make dozens of knives. Might break in half with the first blow. An anvil made of cast iron, with no tool steel face, is the lowest of the low, not much better than a granite boulder.

However, it's a hard/heavy surface and can work relatively well. Third-world smiths often use sledgehammers for their anvils. Quality allow and plenty of mass under the hammer. That's the key.

 

Thanks very much for the reply, that's all I'm looking for is something heavy to hammer on

 

Old thread. Start a new thread if you have questions. - Closed