Try half to begin with, check the new prices and remember that shipping an anvil by sea is cheap.īelow is a medium size anvil at 95 kilos its ok for general blacksmithing providing you don't want to do large welding with big hammers. Test the bounce, look for signs of a face plate coming off and please don't pay what they ask for it. You can not use a 10k sledge hammer on a 40k anvil. Bashed up tools are a sure sign of either soft material or undersized for the weight of the hammer used on it. A good quality anvil that has seen a lot of proper work consistent with it's size will have a polished work surface and still sharp edges. Eventually a good one will pop up, but don't buy an anvil neither because it is "old" nor because it has fancy marks, names, dates or wights on it. If you buy from them, keep some money aside to take it for heat treatment because they are on the soft side.Īnd if you still want to look for a bargain, keep your eyes peeled and keep looking. Nimba Anvils – anvils made in the USA, double-bick blacksmith anvils, Italian-style anvils: Gladiator Anvil (450lbs), Centurion Anvil (260lbs), Titan Anvil (120lbs) ()Īnd if you want to buy second hand, have a look at what a good second hand anvil looks like:Īnd yes we still make anvils in Australia, Doug Slack Foundry in Emerald 4722īrisbane blacksmith supplies - anvils, swage/swedge blocks () But in relative terms it will be much cheaper to buy new then to buy old. Made in Sweden, Made in Czechoslovakia, made in Germany, Spain, Italy, US, and until recently even in Queensland.Īnd yes it will cost you. Yes I know that you can not walk in Bunnings and buy an anvil, or if you can it is not but another lump of useless metal only this time new out of china made of scrap, and yes, I rather buy an old lump of useless metal than a new lump of the same.īuy new. The fact is that the anvil was way too small for the work his father done on it and the poor thing looks like if it was made out of putty and a giant had pressed his thumb on it and made a round indentation in it 8 inch wide and 2 inch deep and the material squashed to the sides. I asked him only once about it and he told me in no uncertain terms that it was priceless and that it would never depart from him. It is probably 150 kilos and it belonged to his father who used to fix track springs on it. I don't get it.Ī dear friend of mine is a mechanic and he has a large anvil kicking around in his workshop.
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If you buy a 25 or 50 or even 80k anvil for $700 or 800 or 1000.chipped everywhere, full of marks, even deformed, the horn missing, one leg broken off.but hey! it has a mark that says made in kracovia in 1740. But why bother? if you can get yourself a 100-150 kilos anvil at say $200 and can make it good again with a few days work on it, OK, you got yourself a bargain. There are two anvils on ebay right now, among a barrage of strange anvil like objects, both in poor condition chipped and worn full of marks with prices that are equal or more than a new one and barely of a reasonable size to do some work on it, the biggest being 89 kilos.ĭon't get me wrong, they still can be used, and yes they can be repaired and brought back to life with a lot of work and know how. Then there is the fanciful description of "little or no wear". Ancient tiered and decaying tools purported as some vintage art piece that like wine or violins, improved with time.
The anvils on offer on ebay or gumtree are mostly useless lumps of metal but what is amazing is the descriptions and the prices.įirst of all there seems to be a popular notion that old or antique is better than new. When I decided to rebuild my blacksmith workshop I was faced with exactly the same dilemma and being an e-bay tragic, I thought it would be easy to find something in it. Unfortunately in Australia we have little in the way of a blacksmith tradition and so the availability of second hand anvils is low. When someone wants to start blacksmithing, usually the first thing that comes to mind is an anvil.Įven though the most essential tool is in my view a forge, and an anvil can be improvised, the anvil has some romantic notion of old times.
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