Peter wright anvil 118 update#
Peter wright anvil 118 free#

If you have any questions on this please contact me and I can go over the details and the specifics on the anvil you are buying. 33 watching BIG VINTAGE PETER WRIGHT BlackSmith ANVIL 308 LBS in NY 2,000.00 Local Pickup or Best Offer 60 watching PETER WRIGHT 308 LB ANVIL (2-3-0) Dated 1890-1930 2,495.00 Local Pickup PETER WRIGHT ANVIL 1-3-15 211lbs 750.00 Local Pickup or Best Offer 80 watching Peter Wright 138 lb. There are a small percentage of my latest shipment of 260# Classic anvils that will require some casting clean up. The vast majority of the anvils require very little work. One of the reasons the anvils I sell are such a high quality value is that I leave it to the customer to dress the anvil (radius the edges, chamfer the hardy hole if desired and do a small amount of cleanup that is associated with a casting of any kind). You will have some clean up work to do in order to make the hardy hole one uniform size in some of the 260# anvils in my latest batch, to meet off the shelf tooling requirements. Anvils similarly need some dressing as well. Usually a new hammer has to have the edges radiused and the peen needs to be ground to blunt the sharp edges on it. This is similar to dressing a new hammer. He has only recorded 11 Henry Wright anvils as of 1995 and says that the weight in most cases is in actual pounds. The author believes the company was started in the late 1880s and lasted until about 1914. Most new anvils require some degree of dressing and clean up by the first owner of the anvil. He says that Henry Wrights anvil looks just like the Peter Wright anvil in every respect and that the finish appears to be good. Those of us who have only experienced used anvils, assume that a good, clean used anvil arrived in it's present condition when first delivered to the first owner. To put this in perspective, most new anvils require some degree of dressing by the first owner. If buy off the shelf steel and weld you hardy tools, this will impact you. If you forge your hardy tools from old truck or car axles this should not have any impact on your tooling. These are cast steel anvils and there is some degree of variation in the 260 lb Classic anvil's hardy size. You will find it is a lot of work just cleaning up that horn with the belt grinder.Dimensions of hardy holes in some of the 260 # anvils may vary by up to 1/8'. One edge was repaired, and t he other has some small nicks. This anvils face has a below average rebound, except near the hardy hole and heel where it is excellent. So,be careful to not sand through it.My anvil is cast tool steel throughout,so I had no danger of going through. Matchlessantiques is offering smiths and collectors this 118 lb.

But,it is going to be more like 1/4' thick,I'd guess. The horn should be 'wrapped' with a layer of hardened tool steel,welded on. 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. In fact, the 42-year-old bought his first tool (A 127-pound Peter Wright anvil, the biggest piece of junk you ever saw in your life, he says) at age 17.

Peter wright anvil 118 free#

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). 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. 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.

Peter wright anvil 118 update#

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. Yeah, it does look *sort of* like a Peter Wright, but.