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Making Anvils

Janger

Janger

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At the forum meet up we were talking about the difficulty of finding an anvil here in Alberta. This video shows a guy making one from scrap square stock (big stuff) and welding it all together. It's pretty cool stuff. I was thinking I have a fair bit of 4130 - I wonder if it could be welded together and then heat treated for hardness? I have an anvil but two anvils is better than one... ;)
 
When welding chunks like that, wouldn't there be a tiny air gap between layers? Does that matter?
 
That is a really big project considering the primitive tools he has to use. Fun to watch the fast motion hammering.
 
I'd like to visit his scrap yard where he has access to steel like that


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I have just found out through a wood supplier that he has a shipment coming to Calgary in the near future of some anvils he found while buying other metal working equipment out east. I'll post when I hear its here in Calgary. He does have several old lathes in his shop in Crossfield now if anyone wants I can pass on info on contacting him.
 
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