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I used to think any old anvil would work until I spent 6 months fighting a cracked one
Picked up a beat up anvil at a farm sale for $80 about a year ago. Figured it was good enough. After months of bad hammer strikes and wondering why my work looked sloppy, I finally had a guy at the Eugene meetup take a look. He pointed out a hairline crack running through the face. Switched to a borrowed anvil last month and my hammer control improved overnight. Anyone else ever wasted time on bad gear before figuring out the problem?
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dylan1244d ago
Man I feel that. I wasted almost a year on a beat up old Fisher anvil with a chipped face before I realized it was the tool not me. A guy at the local blacksmith guild pointed out how the face was actually dished in one spot and it was messing up every flat I tried to make. Soon as I swapped to a decent anvil my hammer work got way cleaner almost overnight.
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ben_shah934d ago
That Fisher with the dished face sounds like a real pain. Did you ever figure out if it was from years of bad technique or just a factory flaw that slipped through?
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