That’s good to know, I need something to use as an upsetting block because I have my main anvil mounted and Its too heavy to take it off and put on the ground

Cool. Thanks for the review. I'm dying to know what kind of metal work you do. I want to start knife making.

Yeah it shouldn't have any problems holding up to regular forging

Came to the comments to say the same thing... polished mine up a little but lad to see how durable this thing is. Well worth the money for an amateur smith.

I Was impressed as well

Definitely 😁

Did ya get your anvil and how is holding up ?

@@believeinjesus8300 it’s really solid! Had it for about 2 months now. Forged a few things and it’s great. I use a 4lb hammer to move and shape, 2.2 lb to finish. 4 lb is probably a bit much for this anvil but I’m careful and light on the swing.

@@Jayknifemaker 🙏🏾 thanks for responding! Iam thinking about getting the 132 lbs one on Amazon

@@believeinjesus8300 good choice! I considered saving a bit more and getting that one! Making knives for the most part the 88 lbs is about all I need.

It really did!

Thank you brother Jared God bless you as well

@@ChristCenteredIronworks your very welcome

It will definitely hold up well for regular forging for sure

@@ChristCenteredIronworks how many pounds did this anvil weigh???

Me too

The horn is actually softer than the face, I have this same anvil, and have dented the horn with a sloppy swing with a 4lb hammer , but the face has held up just fine to my misses. (I broke my wrist last year, and it took a while to get my accuracy back 😕)

@@Vikingwerkit’s normal for the horn to be softer. Back in the old days of anvil making, the body would be either CI, or later on in the 1800s, wrought iron, and then later still at the early 1900s, mild steel. Then the high carbon steel striking face was hammer welded on. So everything was soft except for that face. Now, most good anvils, are made of solid cast tool steel, as this one is. But most still don’t harden the horn. Tradition, I suppose.

Definitely 😊

That's first degree. With malice and forethought

I’ve seen the blue versions test a bit harder than the 50RC they’re rated at. My black one is rated at 55RC, which is at the high side of what an anvil should be. I tested it to about 55RC. Pretty good. Mine is the 132 LB, but I don’t think that’s why.

If we have the eBay link posted, try that one. I will see about replacing the Amazon link.

Anything to get started as cheap and quickly as possible. I started with a 6lb chunk of D2 held in a bench vise with shim under the jaw to keep it stable. Learn where and how to hit and you can move plenty of steel on a smaller anvil. Biggest thing is secure it so it doesn't move around 👍

@@the_sharp_carpenter oh okay thank you then I'll get one because I wasn't too sure about it being "cast iron" and if it would be strong enough

@@Lee_Roy_LB cast iron (like the pans) is different than cast steel.

I have one of the big ones, 132lb-er. It's held up great for near two years. I've only had to re-face it once due to me being a novice and had a few miss hits. Even after that it hasn't lost any of its strength (from my experience). It's a night and day difference between it and say a harbor freight cast aso, or something of the like. I would definitely recommend anyone who can afford it get one. Now just something I've noticed, after vervor started taking over selling them, I've seen a few vids of people getting ones that do seem a tad weaker per say.? Not sure if they were just beating it like this and talking smack or what. I got mine from the old happy buy link, not vervor directly. It used to be a different seller in belive. And not to trash on vervor, they sell some great products. I'm not sure if this helps or not, but for a total beginner or someone like me with a few years under their belt It's a good thing. 🍻

@@BurntMushroomBlacksmithing I have about 14 years on and off on and off on and off so yeah right now I'm using a sledgehammer head

@@stevenparson0 nice! I've seen that too. Whatever works. I watch a ton of smiths in the middle east and such, they use all sorts of stuff as an anvil. I recently saw a channel that had giant old arm and hammer anvil that was totally destroyed. The face was nearly an entire crater, so they just laid it on its side and bam! Well anyway, happy smithing my man!

Your very welcome 🤗 I was pleasantly surprised how well it held up!

They go up to 60kg or roughly 132lbs.

I love my 60kg

Shipping would be insane

Brother, you can set the biggest sledgehammer head you can find into a tree stump and use that as an anvil. That's very similar to the anvils the Vikings had and you can make some really great stuff with that anvil.

@@rwdyeriii thank you for the information i will do it to do my project thankyou very much 😊

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@@ChristCenteredIronworks You know I'd do it Roy

I've done plenty of other tests on this anvil and it had a HRC of 52-54 so soft it's not.. but another comment made the suggestion that it might be Case hardened.. might need to do some more tests and research about that in the future

@@ChristCenteredIronworks yeah case hardening would make sense.

Stupid is as stupid does