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269550 "Stager, Scott P." <StagerS@m...> 2019‑12‑20 Re: Anvil
Let’s see, about this time of the year in Galena I’m thinking the crack of dawn
is what - 10-11 a.m.  :0)

—Scott

On Dec 19, 2019, at 1:49 PM, Phil Koontz mailto:phil.koontz@g...">mailto:phil.koontz@g...>> wrote:

Hi all--

Just out of curiosity, I checked the price of new anvils.
https://www.centaurforge.com/Scott-Anvils/products/581/

Centaur is the go-to shop for farrier's and blacksmith tools, and I was an
occasional customer there for years.

Anyway, it looks like a new, high quality anvil costs about seven or eight
dollars a pound these days.

When I started looking for an anvil, I hoped to pay about a dollar a pound,
and settled for about $2.50.  I guess the same economics are still valid.
My anvil is a Peter Wright, about 100 pounds, and presumably imported from
England about 1900.  It's pretty and a nice classic, but Peter Wrights are
notorious for being loud.  That's probably where a lot of my hearing went--

PK
Up well before the crack of dawn today,
in Galena, Alaska











On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 10:21 AM gary may via OldTools <
oldtools@s...> wrote:

Hi Adam!  That's funny, real old-school ROTF!
   I've seen so many BIG anvils lying around Connecticut, and
Pennsylvania (and one in NOLA) that I could easily afford and would love to
have at home. But the shipping was always impossible. Maybe that's why
there aren't so many around here?

                  best to you and to all galoots everywhere, at this time
on earth---sincerely; gam in OlyWA/USA


How horrible it is to have so many people killed!---And what a blessing
one cares for none of them!
Jane Austen




I watch anvil prices on craigslist for laughs at this point, as
prices in WA seem to have gone way up in the last year. I dunno,
maybe a Trenton is a great anvil, but this seems a tad high:

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, WA

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