Anvil Making
Anvil Making
DIY low tech and high tech anvil manufacturing
Almost every blacksmith either starts on a homemade anvil, plays with making RR-rail anvils or has THOUGHT about making anvils. Do-it-yourself types often spend a lot of effort making anvils of various quality. It is not as if anvils are not still made, they are and there are numerous makers, or that good used anvils are not available, they are if anyone looks. But blacksmiths, especially hobbiests like to do things the hard way, so they make anvils.
This is not a manual of how to make an anvil or step by step plans with details such as welding and heat treating. It is some methods and examples of ways to make anvils and how others have done so.
Anvil Manufacturing
How real anvils are made and what features all blacksmiths anvils have. Methods of making fabricated anvils. Tools and skills needed. Notes on concrete.
Anvils the Guru would like to have time to build. Original design drawings, methods and some unique solutions to construction. Mega anvils, fine art anvils and armourers anvils.
Traditional and original design drawings
Our oldest and original anvil making article.
Don’t let preconcieved ideas about what an anvil should look like get in the way of having a good usable tool.
Based on our March 2000 iForge article we demonstrate the best ways to make RR-rail anvils.
Making anvils from a popular scrap shape.
Ways to make hardie holes in DIY anvils with and without machining.
About edge radii and chart of suggested dimensions.
A production design by Jock Dempsey anvilfire guru.
An orginal design by Jock Dempsey anvilfire guru.
Italian style fabricated anvil.
Two anvils made by Daniel Boettger of Canada. A Medieval Pentagonal and late German style.
The wrong way. . .
User built and Do-It-Yourself anvils.
While not technically an anvil some consider them such. Making one fits in with the techniques listed above.
A low use tool that is handy to have.
One step in manufacting anvils in a modern shop.
References and Links
Finding Anvils Anywhere in the World
Anvil Series
- Types and Specifications
- Index to anvil making articles
- Buying used anvils
- Quality, welding and other anvil miscelania
- Anvil Radiuses – Grinding corners
- Testing Anvil Rebound
- Weight of Anvils
- Cast Steel vs. Forgings
- Styles and Preferences
- About Hardie Holes Updated with data table.
- Anvil Stands from the iForge page
- My First Anvil A true story.