Nice score on the anvil!  The edges are in great shape.

I told Wifey that my second anvil was to keep the first one company - it would
be quieter that way.  :)

Tim

The tree branches here are all coated in crystal-like ice this morning. It is
really quite beautiful, but wreaking havoc with the weaker ones.

On December 18, 2019, at 2:22 AM, Michael Suwczinsky  wrote:

I picked up this anvil about 6 weeks ago, 15 miles away. 161 pound Peter
Wright, which goes nicely with the 104 pound PW, found on ‘05.
https://flic.kr/p/2hJtcBG
The lovely wife believed me when I said it was a good price, especially on
the West coast. I don’t think anvils are all that scarce, just cheap ones.
Sunday afternoon, about to take the dogs to the park and the phone is close
to dead. So I plop down on couch next to said LW, plug in for a few minutes
so as to listen to a podcast (Mortise & Tenon#15) at the dog park.
On another forum a guy posts a CL link he’s too far to get to,  decent
anvil, great price . I text to the seller, jump in the car with the dogs
watching me pull away (what about us?). The post had been up less than an
hour when the seller helped me lift it into the back of the Volvo. If I
hadn’t paused to charge the phone it would have been gone! Just like that!

That Volvo (‘87, counts as an old tool!) had been giving the GIT trouble
all week, stalling and hesitating. ‘ You took that car 30 miles on the
freeway no problem?’  The Volvo emblem is an ancient symbol for iron!
Dumped from the tailgate into the wheel barrow, then onto the grass where I
could get a hand truck under it and then onto the patio, I mean smithy.

She’s a beauty! Slightly better edges than the 104. Nice rebound, fits all
my 7/8 hardy tools! And at $2.17 per pound, a deal if not a steal!

Michael-frightening the neighbors pretty much every weekend lately

On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 8:37 PM Adam R. Maxwell  wrote:

>
>
> > On Dec 17, 2019, at 06:14 , gary may via OldTools <
> oldtools@s...> wrote:
> >
> > but anvils are less common on the West Coast. gluck widdat. gam
>
> I watch anvil prices on craigslist for laughs at this point
>
> 150 lb. $800
> 83 lb.  $450
> 70 lb.  $400
>
> https://seattle.craigslist.org/tac/tls/d/graham-anvils/7039834972.html
>
> A friend gave me a couple pieces of forklift tine that I'm currently
> using as an anvil; lots of mass, and fine for my purposes (which is
> basically bashing an occasional rivet lately).
>
> Adam
> still making shavings in Benton City
>
-- 
Michael
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