I got an anvil. I got an anvil. I got an anvil. Na-nah-nah-boo-boo. I bid on an anvil at a local online auction sight. It looked like a decent one, I could tell it needed some TLC and a lot of work. I didnt know the weight but judging from the size of the other items in the pictures I could tell it was a good sized one. I was hoping it would be at least a 100lbser. I bid up to $270, but won at $260. With a 10% buyers fee it ended being $286 total. Well, I was very surprised by what I found. I put it on the bathroom scale when I got home with it and it weighed out at 152lbs! I was happy by that point. Then I got to looking at it a little closer, turns out its a Peter Wright! It does need work, more than I thought actually, but the rebound is great and it rings like a freaking bell. The edges are pretty torn up, one side has a chunk broken off and another piece cracked. The face is mostly smooth with a few pits, but its flat as a granite slab, no swayback. The horn an face both have what looks like a bit welding slag on them, but a grinder will take care of that quickly. I hit it with a cupped wire wheel on my angle grinder and cleaned it up, which it did pretty nicely. Ill hit it with a straight wheel later and see if itll clean up more. I havent found a date on it anywhere, but there is a number 3 stamped on one of the legs. I did find some markings that I thought might be a date stamp, the middle character looks like a 4, but there are what appear to be two 1s on either side of it, I highly doubt its a circa 1141 or 1411. Oh, time for the math, $286 / 152# = $1.88 per pound! Thats a heck of a deal around here. People what $400-$800 for no-name anvils weighing less, and sometimes in worse shape. Well here are the gratuitous pictures, there are a lot of them, just to warn you.
Posted on: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 00:59:30 +0000
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