I find that they ping a lot for the amount of work they do. My nephews both made leaves on one of my Christmas visits a few years ago. I gave one away and I still have the other. Railroad Track, I have had two, ooopppps I forgot about them. The single most important thing is that they have flat surface large enough to work on and enough mass to make your work yield to your hammer blows. Anvils can be made out of pretty much anything. So what does it mean – I like to tell those just starting out or thinking about purchasing a new or used anvil that an anvil doesn’t need to look like a London pattern anvil. It holds a block of wood that I use for dishing cups, pans, leaves and other such items. It has an unconventional configuration that allows it to be used for some forming and bending between the tabs. That’s a pretty solid block to be bouncing off of. My curtain weight anvil I made in 2006 (I have 2007 in the photo caption – it’s a typo) and it weighs in at about 280 lbs. My NC at work is round but fatter than the PW, but it is fine for the work I do there. Now I really enjoy using my Peter Wright anvil as it has a nice round and more slender horn than the wider one on the Russian. It still serves today as a bench top anvil and I use is often for both hot and cold work. I purchased a NC Calvary 112 Pdr in 2001 at work, prior to that my anvil was a 50 lb ballast weight by the name of Fairbanks. In fact it was better than my first anvil at work for about a year. I used my Russian HF anvil since 2000 and while it doesn’t see work everyday it was the anvil that I used at HHF when I worked on the weekends and afternoons. I know what is a curtain weight anvil, we will get to it. I own three at HHF, a Peter Wright – 142 Pdr, a Harbor Freight 110 Pdr (This is one of the steel cast ones before they started getting the ones with a welded plate on top) and my curtain weight anvil. If you were to ask that guys that know me they would tell you that I have an opinion about everything and of course I am willing to share it. I have to say that there are so many articles, books and ruminations about anvils that you are probably wondering what I have to say that would be new or of interest.
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