Very well deserved
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Very well deserved
Couldn't be more deserving!
Also forgot to mention - great diversity of tools here. You wouldn't expect someone who won two Homemade Tool of the Week awards with Dremel tools to then win a third time with an anvil.
Diversity is another huge draw to HMT There is something here for just about everyone interested in most any tool you can imagine.
Did something with it.. and it works just like i hoped. :)
https://youtu.be/-rt67eR7YJw
Very nice work. I didn't realize you had ground the step into the heal end of the anvil. I think I've only seen this done on jewelers and watchmakers anvils.That feature just raised the little anvil by another bar in my book. For one thing you now have the perfect place to formed clamping cap over the heal, the step will provide a locator stop you can make several of these should you like in them instead of pritchal or hardy holes you could drill and thread holes for attaching forming jigs or dies on one you could make a reverse hardy by adding a square stud you could then make dies and punches which had square sockets instead of the male square hardy's
There is really any in-numerable specialty tools that could be made for this all while remaining level with a anvil face when attached, only your imagination is the limit
Again good job
Thank you very much Frank! I didn't know that shape has a "name", i just shaped it to shape that i tought to need.
Actually the correct name for what I called the step is table. many types of anvils have the table or step as I called it on the horn end some only have a half table protruding from one side of the horn.
Clarance the man I worked for as a kid had one of those in the back room.
Oh by the way the most comfortable height of a navil for most folks is to stand beside it and rest the second knuckles of your hand on it while making a loose fist you can whail away with a 3 or 4 lb hammer all day long and still have enough energy left in your arm to knock out Mike Tyson with 1 hit, but then again no self respecting boxer would ever dare to tick off a Blacksmith
Thank you very much for the information Frank. And.. Lol, for the boxer. :)