Anvils have been around since ancient times. Basically, anvils are used to forge and shape metal. The first anvils were made of stone, then bronze, then wrought iron, then steel-faced wrought iron, ...
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Forging a stake anvil from a flea market find

Watch as a rusty flea market sledgehammer is transformed into a precision stake anvil for blacksmithing. Follow the full ...
Coletta, who came to blacksmithing through a business in structural steel, said that his building requirements were small – 400 square feet of space, with a concrete floor – and that the old ...
PORT TOWNSEND — After working as a blacksmith most of his life, Jim Garrett found it natural to forge ahead as an anvil manufacturer in 2007. After all, he pounds out and shapes metal for a living ...
Only 100 or so blacksmiths still make full-time livings from their craft. Rosita Boland visits one of them in his workshop in Co Tipperary. Ablacksmith is one of those slightly mysterious craftsmen ...