Here in 2020 to tell you that I've spent the majority of my life in academia, and I think you're probably the best teacher I've ever had. Thanks for your inspiration!!
I really appreciate your no bullshit no punches pulled approach to your videos. My wife and I are history nerds as well and that is what got me into blacksmithing not "forged in fire" like half the other hacks of there driving up the price on anvils. Thanks for another great video👍
I ended up buying a new cast steel anvil and its awesome. The old ones I came across were almost as much as the new one cost. Next video on the hat please..! Thanks for the video...
I absolutely love your videos, and I'm really nerdy about weird things so this video is god tier interesting to me. Plus your sense of humor hits me in the giggledick every time.
You certainly are a true 'professor'! I enjoy all your videos. But.... I gotta know......where can I get a hat like the one in this video? Keep on with the " good work" of keeping an old profession ALIVE!!!!
I'm glad I took US History last year, I learned about both the Bessemer process (which was probably the most interesting thing that I learned all year) and about Sherman's March.
Great video! I have to admit, I love the old anvils because of their history. I have two (just bought an eighteenth century English one with a broken bick today actually) and I use them just like the generations of smith's did that came before me. They say you don't own an anvil, you know...you just get to spend some time with it. However, I have my eyes seriously locked on a brand new Fontaninni anvil. It will be mine.
I would say of the wrought base steel face anvils, the mousehole forge anvils were the best... MANY over 200 years old and still going strong. Peter Wright worked there and broke away to start his own, but that thick waist of the old mouseholes are hard to beat... I've seen PW's with a broken waist weld, broken horns, and broken heels... I haven't seen a mousehole (not saying they haven't, but I haven't seen 'em) in that condition. The only saddle backed ones I have seen are the ones that were machined flat and used for overly heavy work, OR used after someone had chipped the plate OFF and continued to use.I got mine for about a buck ten per lb...198 lb best investment I ever made
I lucked up 2 years ago and got a near cherry 1904, 239# Trenton, early American production model. Just under $2 lb. Great tool. You did leave out the solid forged Steel anvils like Peddinghaus. Very well made tools. And for cast steel, the Refflinghaus cast steel is the Pinnacle. But very costly. Looking forward to more vids Trenton
There definitely looks to be more than one bird there, but being Australian I'm not familiar with any that would be in there. A little close up and names in one of his tidbit videos would be good.
I have a question for you if you do not mind me asking or anyone who has an answer to it for that matter as it would help me out a bunch. Got a old trade weight that is cast. How do I either get a carbon steel face on it by welding or case hardening. Is any of this a good idea. Am out in India and all I am using is a sledge hammer at the moment.
"Anvils in America" is a truly amazing book, and well worth the $70-100.00 price tag. Try getting it through a local inter library loan, and you will soil the pages with druel. I want a copy, more than I want another anvil
Love the vast amount of knowledge you continue to impart to us. But, are you sure you are going to lick up the Bessemer process? I mean, since you are all the way down in the Southern boondocks of Georgia, I just honestly don't think your tongue is that long. Have a great day and a better tomorrow. And remember to laugh often and long. (And you should always keep one of them anvils Sherman broke the horn off. It might be worth more than the metal it was made from one of these days.)
What shocks me is the total lack of knowledge about current anvil manufacturers. There is probably a dozen anvil makers that produce really high quality anvils for dang near same price as what some people are asking for a 70-80 year old anvil with more damage than a derby car. Keep up the good work!
Earl Ellerbee, CJF yeah and the best part of a new anvil is you don't have to work around the last guys habits for instance I'm a lefty and the hard and soft edges are all in the wrong spots and factory turning cams suck
I"m curious where you would say the new ductile iron anvils fit in to your scale. Before I found my old Trenton, I was shopping for new, and it seems like a good number of the new anvils are ductile iron, which as I understand it, is explained as a new... or "newer" process for casting iron. I don't truly understand the science behind it all, and online opinions seem to vary, with a large percentage of the negative reviews being cast by people who have no experience with a ductile iron anvil. Since it is still a "cast" iron, it seems like a large number of people still feel it will still have the same issues as regular cast iron. I was just curious to see if you've had any experience with the ductile iron.
HoJ Forge Wikipedia shows ductile cast iron as having a Brinell scale hardness a bit over half that of regular cast iron, so it should be more usable that a cast iron with steel face. It may make a serviceable hobby anvil if you aren't doing a lot of heavy work on it, but that is only my guess. Ductile cast was developed in 1948, so I am guessing this was made as an economy anvil. Also, I don't have ANY experience myself, so there is that as well.
Some imported for a big name US supplier at some point in the 80's were softer, but seems it was a short period of error or quality control. Most Kohlswa before and after the incident were popular and harder than most current US manufactures. You can tell in under 30 seconds if it's a soft face with a file or other means. I believe 54+ HRC is average for a Kohlswa that wasn't part of the bad batch mentioned.
Do you encourage others who have to same passion and also live in Georgia to stop by and say hey? Hell maybe even give the helping hand on their way through? I ask cause I'm not far away
No lie. I Googled "how were anvils made? " and not only did it bring me this video, it marked on the picture, with caption underneath, AND started at 4:50, where you begin "these anvils were made..." Jeez is Google getting SURGICAL with its search results
huh, you're saying the north is different than the south? no joke!! them yanks are strange little critters....I'm messin with yall, you northern people are all right I guess.....
This has got to be the most "I live in moms basement" screen name I have ever seen. How about your friends "BigDpoonpounder69" and "BrodudebroCash324", you guys going to start band in the garage?
Here in 2020 to tell you that I've spent the majority of my life in academia, and I think you're probably the best teacher I've ever had. Thanks for your inspiration!!
I really appreciate your no bullshit no punches pulled approach to your videos. My wife and I are history nerds as well and that is what got me into blacksmithing not "forged in fire" like half the other hacks of there driving up the price on anvils. Thanks for another great video👍
You are very welcome!
I ended up buying a new cast steel anvil and its awesome. The old ones I came across were almost as much as the new one cost.
Next video on the hat please..!
Thanks for the video...
I absolutely love your videos, and I'm really nerdy about weird things so this video is god tier interesting to me. Plus your sense of humor hits me in the giggledick every time.
That was awesome! I learned some history I didn't know before and my wife got an education just by listening...who'd have thought it was possible...
Very intriguing and in depth understanding of chemical and physical materials properties. Youre engineering by intuition...rad!!
You certainly are a true 'professor'! I enjoy all your videos. But.... I gotta know......where can I get a hat like the one in this video? Keep on with the " good work" of keeping an old profession ALIVE!!!!
What great videos. You have a good way with teaching. From the coal mining towns of PA, keep it up man.
Thank you!
I'm glad I took US History last year, I learned about both the Bessemer process (which was probably the most interesting thing that I learned all year) and about Sherman's March.
Great tutorial. You are a natural orator.
Thanks for the kind of education it's hard to find these days, the practical kind.
Great video! I have to admit, I love the old anvils because of their history. I have two (just bought an eighteenth century English one with a broken bick today actually) and I use them just like the generations of smith's did that came before me. They say you don't own an anvil, you know...you just get to spend some time with it. However, I have my eyes seriously locked on a brand new Fontaninni anvil. It will be mine.
I would say of the wrought base steel face anvils, the mousehole forge anvils were the best... MANY over 200 years old and still going strong. Peter Wright worked there and broke away to start his own, but that thick waist of the old mouseholes are hard to beat... I've seen PW's with a broken waist weld, broken horns, and broken heels... I haven't seen a mousehole (not saying they haven't, but I haven't seen 'em) in that condition. The only saddle backed ones I have seen are the ones that were machined flat and used for overly heavy work, OR used after someone had chipped the plate OFF and continued to use.I got mine for about a buck ten per lb...198 lb best investment I ever made
I lucked up 2 years ago and got a near cherry 1904, 239# Trenton, early American production model. Just under $2 lb.
Great tool.
You did leave out the solid forged Steel anvils like Peddinghaus. Very well made tools. And for cast steel, the Refflinghaus cast steel is the Pinnacle. But very costly.
Looking forward to more vids Trenton
Ha! Gotcha! Those are not london pattern anvils! This video was specifically to that type!
purgatoryironworks Refflinghaus also makes the London pattern anvil.
Edited - Just read your correction about cast iron and the Bessemer Process.
So I will just say wonderful video.
Cool. Mine is mid 1800s PW. It’s a beauty, handled gently. Came out of a barn.
No bullshit solid info, you're vids always present facts in a way even i can understand, now I know.
Be safe, make cool stuff.
the jokes are great. those are one of the top reasons I subscribed
A great video series. I'm going to be watching through all of them.
As someone that collects feathers, I'm more impressed with that plumage on your hat. A little tidbit on what birds are in there would be awesome.
look to be pheasant
There definitely looks to be more than one bird there, but being Australian I'm not familiar with any that would be in there. A little close up and names in one of his tidbit videos would be good.
Thanks for the history lesson! Nicely done!
I have a question for you if you do not mind me asking or anyone who has an answer to it for that matter as it would help me out a bunch. Got a old trade weight that is cast. How do I either get a carbon steel face on it by welding or case hardening. Is any of this a good idea. Am out in India and all I am using is a sledge hammer at the moment.
If it s cast iron, you are out of luck, there isnt going to be be a way to -satisfactorily- add a plate. Find some steel!
Gday mate, thanks for all the great videos you have shown me heaps of tricks and tips all the knowledge shared is much appreciated thanks heaps mate
Welcome!
It's videos like this that made me subscribe to your channel. Thank you for putting it together.
Thank you!
As always you are doing a great job.
Man I dig your energy, you're talking business.
Tons of great info...thanks so much for doing this.
Great Video, cant wait for the next. Full of information.
Just found your channel, great stuff.
Thank you for your explanation. I'd be curious to see what you have to say about modern production anvils like Scott, Emerson, TFS and the like
Ok so I go get an ASO at the shop, how do i put a hard steel plate on it?
wait... which beach did you say???
"Anvils in America" is a truly amazing book, and well worth the $70-100.00 price tag. Try getting it through a local inter library loan, and you will soil the pages with druel. I want a copy, more than I want another anvil
Man. That was fascinating.
Nicely done, Sir.
Love you videos would like to know what part of Georgia you are in
Southwest, Close to Albany
Panama city beach? where is that at - asking for a mate :)
Jack Dawg Panama City, Florida
Hey Trent I have a local foundry and thing about doing a anvil build how would you build it and how many can we sell
Love the vast amount of knowledge you continue to impart to us. But, are you sure you are going to lick up the Bessemer process? I mean, since you are all the way down in the Southern boondocks of Georgia, I just honestly don't think your tongue is that long. Have a great day and a better tomorrow. And remember to laugh often and long. (And you should always keep one of them anvils Sherman broke the horn off. It might be worth more than the metal it was made from one of these days.)
great video man! keep up the good work
Every coyote KNOWS who makes the BEST anvils out there! -^.^- Now, where are those catapult instructions?
What shocks me is the total lack of knowledge about current anvil manufacturers. There is probably a dozen anvil makers that produce really high quality anvils for dang near same price as what some people are asking for a 70-80 year old anvil with more damage than a derby car. Keep up the good work!
Earl Ellerbee, CJF yeah and the best part of a new anvil is you don't have to work around the last guys habits for instance I'm a lefty and the hard and soft edges are all in the wrong spots and factory turning cams suck
Sherman must have made it to Australia, because I know of a wrought iron anvil with a broken off horn here locally... :)
Boat Anchor refers to our big, heavy, unlimited class benchrest rifles as well! LOL!
IM currently looking for an anvil great info great tips
That topper definitly goes with you.
Where did you get that hat from! Great looking hat
what about drop forged anvils where do they fit in?
Fisher eagle any good???
I"m curious where you would say the new ductile iron anvils fit in to your scale. Before I found my old Trenton, I was shopping for new, and it seems like a good number of the new anvils are ductile iron, which as I understand it, is explained as a new... or "newer" process for casting iron. I don't truly understand the science behind it all, and online opinions seem to vary, with a large percentage of the negative reviews being cast by people who have no experience with a ductile iron anvil. Since it is still a "cast" iron, it seems like a large number of people still feel it will still have the same issues as regular cast iron. I was just curious to see if you've had any experience with the ductile iron.
HoJ Forge Wikipedia shows ductile cast iron as having a Brinell scale hardness a bit over half that of regular cast iron, so it should be more usable that a cast iron with steel face. It may make a serviceable hobby anvil if you aren't doing a lot of heavy work on it, but that is only my guess. Ductile cast was developed in 1948, so I am guessing this was made as an economy anvil.
Also, I don't have ANY experience myself, so there is that as well.
If you were looking to buy an old anvil, how do you tell the difference between wrought, cast iron and cast steel?
Thats tomorrows video!
Awhile back I bought a 229lb Peter Wright anvil that needed minor repair. I can't wait to get it fixed so I can replace my piece of RR track!
Great video, where can I get a hat like that been looking can't find one
what is the sliding glass door argument... I got them...
Most craft stores sell the jeweler's anvils. I use mine a lot for, of course, jewelry and also fly tying.
Great vid !
Love the video, and love that hat!
Excellent!
omg that hat! I want one.
I had an opportunity to purchase a Kohlswa. I passed on it because I had read that they were soft. Any thoughts?
Some imported for a big name US supplier at some point in the 80's were softer, but seems it was a short period of error or quality control. Most Kohlswa before and after the incident were popular and harder than most current US manufactures. You can tell in under 30 seconds if it's a soft face with a file or other means. I believe 54+ HRC is average for a Kohlswa that wasn't part of the bad batch mentioned.
Fish is correct
Trenton,
Thanks for the information.
Frisky Fish Thanks for taking the time to respond.
good teacher
Where's the dog? I heard a cat at the beginning and was wondering if it was going to start howling...
You missed your calling as a teacher!
I don’t recall Ron Jeremy being that big
Vary informative.
That is one awesome hat
See... Bigger is almost better.. Thanks
Thanks
Anytime!
Do you encourage others who have to same passion and also live in Georgia to stop by and say hey? Hell maybe even give the helping hand on their way through? I ask cause I'm not far away
thank you for the knowledge, sir! here's a subscribe for yah c:
Then why is my mouse whole saddle backed? It has a top plate
Most likely too big a hammer was used on it
No lie. I Googled "how were anvils made? " and not only did it bring me this video, it marked on the picture, with caption underneath, AND started at 4:50, where you begin "these anvils were made..."
Jeez is Google getting SURGICAL with its search results
"one good, solid, perfection chunk"...that's what my wife calls me
said the welder , haha!
That would make sense i had an anvil given to me its weight is 122lb without the horn and its from an old farm property
I saw an anvil the foot weld broke, the face had sway back and the horn got flat
huh, you're saying the north is different than the south? no joke!! them yanks are strange little critters....I'm messin with yall, you northern people are all right I guess.....
Thanks for another great video.
I heard Sherman used jet fuel to cut the horns off confederate anvils...
No duh, right?!
If you can find an anvil horn and can date it to the 1860s (almost impossible) can be worth big money.
I needz a Ron Jeremy anvil.. because reezuns.
I commented because of the joke about morally questionable women.
I love jokes about morally questionable women.
I enjoy morally questionable women!
That hat needs goggles on it!
Excuse my ability to ask stupid questions. Would you ever remove an anvil face? If you would then. When, where and why oh and of course HOW?
Damn Yankees
References to Ron Jeremy that hat yeah I don't think I can watch his channel no more this dude's lost his damn mind
This has got to be the most "I live in moms basement" screen name I have ever seen. How about your friends "BigDpoonpounder69" and "BrodudebroCash324", you guys going to start band in the garage?
Morally questionable women. Hahahahaha!!!!!!
Why do you turn comments off on other videos? What are you afraid of?
You hiring?
Building 7
1st
Awesome video Trent, keep em coming!!