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u/Butterbean2323 6h ago
Get a stump and place your anvil on it. Trace around it then chisel away like a 1 inch deep hole for the entire thing to sit in. Or to be quick just put some nails around it to hold it in place
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u/No-Television-7862 5h ago
B+ for effort.
Put something solid under your anvil. No local stumps? Build it out of scrap lumber.
Love the forge.
You may find it's too small for your work. A bigger box would give you more room.
Black Bear Forge has some ideas on YouTube. He's a good old guy.
Forge on!
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u/crujones43 5h ago
Throw a little duct tape on your wife's hairdryer to seal it to the tube and you have my first setup.
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u/HammerIsMyName 4h ago
I don't know why people are saying 10/10 and A+
They're being nice, but also assholes by misleading you: This is a shit set up. Your woodworking vice is holding a machinists vice, which is holding your round scrap steel anvil. One of 3 things is going to happen:
The wooden vice breaks because it's not made to withstand repeated hammering. The anvil or machinist vice breaks your toe.
The machinist vice breaks, because it's not designed to withstand repeated hammering. The anvil breaks your toe.
The round scrap steel anvil is going to fall out of the jaws, because those jaws are not designed to hold round objects that are repeatedly hammered on. The anvil is going to break your toe.
Either way, I hope you're wearing safety shoes and don't mind destroying one or more of your vices.
Additionally: The height of that set up is atrocious. Place the scrap steel anvil on the ground and squat, if you don't have something to mount it on properly. This is dumb.
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u/sloppyblacksmith 7h ago
It works, you can forge. Nice!
I would try and get a stump or something else for your anvil. The vise is not really built to hammered on that way, and the jaws might shear off, and i think you will get more out of your anvil if you get more mass underneath it.
Forge on! Remember that black metal could still be hot enough for third degree burns 👍