Homemade Blacksmith Anvil

[Hromoduch]

I am blacksmith and this is not anvil you amateur!!!!

[dozerman8114]

cute not the real thing mine is over100 and it sounds

[rahdzhillaxxx]

I checked last week on a 10"x10"x5" piece of 4140 annealed and it ran 500 bucks!!! so my first anvil is a 70 lb farrier from centaur forge for 300. I'm working on putting together a furnace and then I'll be hammering..... Oh yeah I need a hammer too.. damn list just keeps getting longer LOL

[1overthehillsfaraway]

ROUND ANVILS ARE JUNK YOU NEED A SQUARE EDGE FOR 90 PERCENT OF BLACKSMITH WORK

[offenwrong]

I would be happy just to find the round part or something similar. and Billygotgrove is right about the height....you should lower it to were your fist just touches the top while you stand straight...thats supposed to be the perfect work distance.

[grizzly22485]

You spend the money because there IS a difference between the performance of a Volkswagon beetle and a Mercedes...Ross- The blacksmith...

[lawnmowerrecycler]

Awesome!!

[bluetoad2001]

a splitting maul works good as a horn.

you've inspired me to finish making my anvil.

all good

train tack anvils have to much bounce, especially when hammering on the ball, the cut end is o.k. but too small for doing much

[zippymanyay101]

Just as a suggestion, I would take a grinder and grind off the cutting ridges off of the face, just to make a smoother surface and to keep those impressions off of your work.

[garrett2119]

you're goin to lose alot of the force by having it up on that stand, you need something solid

[billygotgrove]

I like it. I would lower it though. Your wrist will be hurting after a while at that height.

[onebigyooper]

nice. be nice if you could weld some square pipe in da handle hole to use it as a hardy hole. how is it for workin on. has to be better than a piece of track

[honeybunchickens]

@onebigyooper Im not saying the track is bad or if mine is better. I just like the area of mine, its larger and it works better then i thought. I could bang on this thing all day and theres no ding marks. lets be real here if i took a axe and started swinging on it of coarse it will ding. But if you treat the tool with respect it will show you respect back, thats with anything in tools. Now Im not saying all tools in the world, some are just straight up bull shit. overall i love this anvil

[Lakesideforge]

what was the name of that song at the begining

[honeybunchickens]

@Lakesideforge it kinda sounds like charley brown and snoopy music

[PipeGamer]

I don't know why people are hating on you.. But good ideas.. Especially the axehead as a horn. :D

[apatientspider]

Just thought of something else: You can weld? Well then get some hardface welding rods and use them on the face of your anvil. That will make a surface as hard as any blacksmiths anvil. Just be sure to build a small fire under the anvil first to heat it up a bit for welding. Let it cool down slow in cat litter or ashes or something. Keep up the good work and good luck. :-)

[apatientspider]

I have a couple antique anvils, but I also have a piece of scrap like yours that I bought cheap for a nice flat working surface. I often thought of making it into an anvil like yours; glad to see it works so well. Maybe you could take it to a heat treat shop and have the face hardened. Maybe weld a short piece of rr track on other side for a heel. Cool anvil.

[swedishhunter21]

:O

Really nice job man!:D

[christopher5361]

Ok I take it back. It looks more like an incinerator with a boner. Hee Hee.

[christopher5361]

Hahahahahahaha. Hey check out my video where I stuffed a turkey with a duck that was stuffed with a chicken. Then I stuffed em all in a goat, and cooked em down into charcoal.

[honeybunchickens]

@christopher5361 ok joey, i know thats you. Stop going on your brothers computer and on his youtube channel and making him look like a dumb shit with your ignorant words, you need to stop playing video games and ditching school man, listen to your big brother man, go back to school. Its all with it at the end.

[christopher5361]

Looks like a trash can on a garbage disposal on a white trash end table. You don't need a working surface the size of a manhole lid. You don't know what you're talking about with railroad track anvils, because it's rounded on the edges and there's no harder steel. That dude at the scrap yard saw you coming cause ou could have found a decent old anvil for what you spent. I could break that "horn" off there in about ten minutes. Hahaha.

[honeybunchickens]

@christopher5361 wtf is wrong with you man. You had a bad day? sorry about not showing up, i was really busy. You know me man i always have shit to do plus i had to work on this guys ride installing a air ride suspension, he lives up in the hills where me and you raced back in the day, and i beat you going down that one hill that you hate with the tight turn. I think it helped because i had no breaks so i had know choice but to ride straight through it hoping i wouldn't eat shit.

[khxml]

Simple and effective tool.

[turbotonic27]

i guess that hammer is homemade? 2:40 ?

[honeybunchickens]

@turbotonic27 yes

[238lamain]

Nice! Now you can make more medieval weapons.

[honeybunchickens]

@238lamain oh ya!