![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Next, I laid out a grid on the anvil to do some rebound measurements. Needless to say, the hardy hole will require extensive cleaning with a file prior to use. Here you can see a big burr I bent up, as well as a dingleberry that was stuck to the bottom part of the hardy hole. Taking a closer look at the hardy hole, it's 3/4" 'square', but had some serious burrs inside as a result of the grinding of the anvil suface. There appear to be some pinhole voids in the surface, hopefully there's not more behind them: Next, I used some Goof Off to clean the top surface of the anvil. I may eventually look at stripping the paint off this to see if body filler was used to hide a multitude of other sins. Fortunately these dings shouldn't be a big deal when I dress the edges to take the sharpness off them.Īnd there was some ugliness in the undercarriage, the flashing and voids make me question whether there are voids just waiting to be found under the working surfaces. There's some ugliness next to the pritchel hole, and a few corner dings on a corner and edge of the anvil. Inspecting more closely, I came across a few blemishes that I wasn't particularly surprised to find. Surprisingly, there was no rocking, it sat flatly on the tabletop. I extracted the lump of metal from the box, and found it to have a grease and wax paper attached to the surface. Opening the box this was contained therein: Looks like the package has seen better days: The availability and delivery timelines were completely false, as it shipped well before they claimed there'd be more in stock, and lo and behold, I find this on my doorstep this evening: Instead I grabbed it off of Amazon as it was the only place I could find one in the sub-$200 range. A short while back I ordered one of the 66 lb Chinese 'steel' anvils that used to be quite ubiquitous on everyone's favorite auction site, but as of late are no longer offered in the US. ![]()
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