![]() ![]() Accidents do happen but for the most part, going slower and being more careful gave me the largest payback with accurate and sure hammer blows and this helped me get better quicker vs haphazardly just mashing metal. I went out and bought the Peddinghaus to beat up until my skills are good enough to use the Hay Budden again.Įverything I read growing up was about not hitting the anvil with the face of the hammer so strived to not do that. (really only noticeable to me) and in 6months of coming out of retirement, I put 6 small dents in it. ![]() I have a 175HB anvil that in 30 years of using it I put in 2 smallish dents. With this said I have a hard time now as always with mashing away on an anvil with increasing damage on a historical piece of history in this way. Now 100+ years later or even 50 years in certain cases. Not as a special thing but as the guys showed up for work every day and just plied their trade. I look at all things forged before me in the old ways as historical artifacts, testaments to the smiths that did the work. Please take what I now write not as a chastizing or critique and more for the newbie or other beginner that might stumble into this thread and read it.Īgain, as a long time smith I have seen many damages done to anvils which for the most part need not happen. May not be happy about it, but, It does tell the story of my journey in this craft. But hear is a thought, I have put every mark that my anvil has. Very NIce indeed.Ĭhris, I know what you are saying. ![]()
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