HOMEMADE 180 POUND ANVIL PART 3: Hardening and Using!
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- In the third and final video of the series, we finish up our home made anvil with some heat treating, and test it out with a bit of damascus steel. This project was done over the course of many months, and it allows us to start our adventure into blacksmithing.
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Great project! Looks like it turned out great.
Looked through a lot of videos on the subject very recently to build my own and I must say that this is probably the best one that I have found so far.
Only the striking surface needs to be hardened. Otherwise, a great build. Using the plates vertically was a very good idea. When air hardening A2, just leave it alone, even if you have that mass. I would have turned it upside down to give most of the heat to the surface, checked with a magnet, and taken it out, flipped it over and left it alone. But if it isn’t tempered at about 400-450, it might chip.
Great job happy forging 🇮🇪😁
Yeap, i saw this problem many times, the auto temper caused by the inner mass of the anvil, it can erase the previous effect of the hardening a surface warming and a fast cooling is recommended to massive objects like this, great work
Ohh bummer to the hammer marks might have wanted to grind those out before you heat treated…awesome work though!
Awesome, i was waiting for this 👍👍👍👍
Glad you are following along! Thanks for the support 🤘🏼
My idea would be to a ring on the horn and a hook in the square hole and carry the anvil to a tub of water. might have to put something in the bottom of tub
so the anvil does not melt the plastic , it should cool it off faster. I did a very good job of it.
That's a good idea, and we actually considered doing just that. But the top is A2, and air hardening is the slowest quenching process, and we thought a full water quench would have been excessive and might have caused problems. Because of this, we misted the top with water, and poured water on the 4140 horn, which is normally oil quenched, sometimes water quenched.
Awesome video!
Thanks brotha!
Nice job mate. Cheers
Really interesting build. On old anvils, I don't think the horn is typically hardened. And you might be able to get away with only hardening the top.
lol probably would have ground those hammer marks out before the hardening. but this is much better than the harbor freight anvil you had before.
Also, many a child through the ages has had their ass blistered for smiting an anvil face.
Oh I'm sure my cousins aren't the first, haha. Thanks for all of the criticism and advice 👍🏼
Pouring water on it didn't harden it. You would have to dunk it in a big container with an engine hoist or use something like a fire hose. I would have just used tool steel as the top plate and been done. Also that wobble when using it is bad.
They literally said it’s tool steal and you air harden d2