![]() You can also see that I’ve drilled pilot holes for some big bolts to go through. That ringing is pretty once or twice, but when you’re striking steel again and again, it becomes pretty unpleasant to listen to. The intent here is to help dampen the ringing sound of the anvil. In the first photo below, you can see that I’ve traced the anvil base on top of the stand and applied some silicone caulk to the parts of the stand that the anvil base will sit on. Instead, I have a cluttered garage in which I store tools and movable work tables, and then I pull a car out of the garage to make a workspace or just drag all my materials and tools out into the driveway to do my work. ![]() I used this tutorial with some slight modifications (and a lot less precision) to make the stand. It’s not perfectly level, but it does the trick. I did some chiseling and sanding to get the stand to be fairly level, and then I added thick, shimmed plywood to top and bottom to reduce any wobble. Then I cut some threaded bar to size, drilled 12 holes all the way through the sides of the stand, and used nuts and washers in countersunk holes to pull the 4x4s together more tightly. I cut some 8-foot 4x4s to size, then glued together three on a side to give me about 10.5 inches of top surface, which is plenty big for my anvil’s footprint. Once you’ve got an anvil, you need to mount it on a steady, pretty heavy surface. I followed this tutorial to “dress” the anvil. One day, I’d love to have a bigger anvil of a couple of hundred pounds, but this is a big upgrade already from what I used in my first attempt to move metal. Even this little one was not exactly cheap, and the bigger you go, the more expensive they tend to be. Anvils come in lots of sizes, even into the hundreds of pounds. This is a small anvil, believe it or not. ![]() It turned sort of a lovely purple/black color. Then I applied some acetone to clean, some Loctite rust neutralizer, and finally a nice coat of WD-40 to finish preparing the anvil. Using a combination of grinding, wire brush, and flap wheels for grinding and polishing, I was able to get rid of the paint and polish the horn to a reasonable smoothness. The job did give me a good excuse to buy an angle grinder. The blue paint on it is applied to help prevent rust while the anvil sits in storage. The anvil needed a lot of work in order to be ready to really use.
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