![]() ![]() You will find it is a lot of work just cleaning up that horn with the belt grinder. So,be careful to not sand through it.My anvil is cast tool steel throughout,so I had no danger of going through. But,it is going to be more like 1/4" thick,I'd guess. It is available for local pickup if you would rather not have it shipped. 10 charge if I have to crate it for shipping. The horn should be "wrapped" with a layer of hardened tool steel,welded on. US 7.52 About the Book Peter Wright & Sons of Dudley in the Black Country region of the UK were the most famous Victorian maker of blacksmiths anvils the world has ever known. The factory weight markings on the anvil read '0 3 0', which is the English stoneweight for 84 pounds and that is the weight on my bathroom scale. You will get rusty iron all over you(I HAVE done that operation on MY anvil!) If you're just going to do rough forging,the surface of the horn might not matter. I'd take a belt sander with blue zirconia belts to the horn and grind it free of that rough surface. I have seen a 100# Fisher vise with a 1/4" thick top,though!! Pretty ridiculous!! It ought to be about 5/8" thick(depends upon the size of the vise). 'OK condition' does not sound like one I would want. You can wire brush off the sides of the body where the table is and determine how thick the welded on tool steel top is. Peter Wright anvils are good anvils, but old and often abused. It has not been beaten sway backed,and the corners of the table are in good shape. Seriously,it is impossible to tell,but the vise is at least in decent looking condition. It is a Rustoleum vise,without the "Oleum" ! That helps influence the odds of various things having been done to it in the past.) What's the ETA, and where's it coming in from? (As in: where was it to start with. Please update us with more/better pictures when it turns up. If it does, then I'd bet somebody put a new table on an old PW anvil. It'll be interesting to see if it has the hardie and pritchell holes in the underside of the tail when it turns up. But *waaaaay* over the top, whatever they did. So maybe it's a PW where somebody did something wildly over the top to rebuild a trashed table? It looks sort of like somebody either cast or welded on a great huge slab on top of the table, and then cleaned it up very nicely. ![]() Too fat and stocky across the table area, and no hardie or pritchell. And the horn looks about right.īut the body is totally wrong. PW's have a sort of step on the feet that is (so far as I remember) unique. Anvil vintage Anvil forged steel 25 lbs, great condition. Yeah, it does look *sort of* like a Peter Wright, but.
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