The anvil was built to be worked on, anything done to get back up doing what it’s supposed to is showing respect. A great video, thank you.

Heh. Anytime I see one of these vids, I think "*I should get an anvil!*". And then I remember I live in an apartment in the city. I like these vids, man. Keep 'em comin'!

you are 100 percent right, it should be put back to working order, not sitting in a flower bed somewhere, great job.

I see a red anvil and i want to paint it black

HAHAHA! You had me going there till you grabbed that little one. I was thinking, "what the hell happened to it!? It's been ABUSED", then your giant fingers came in shot and I felt quite foolish. Well played good sir, well played!

Whoever gives you crap about doing whatever the fuck you want with your anvil deserves to be treated as a troll and should be rightly ignored.

Nice job, I like that you saved her from soiling the earth in a flower bed.

My grandpappy had me practice my SMAW on his old anvil, had me lay 4 beads thick. Then he took it to a machine shop to have it ground flat, had them cut two different size Pritchett holes and one hardy hole. Had one edge chamfered, the other rounded with three inches left sharp squared. My grandpappy had some amazing smithy tools, he did smithing for seventy years. When he was ninety I was sixteen and still could make a nail in less than a minute, in the time it took me to make one horse shoe he would make six, my God he was an amazing Blacksmith.

Hey man, you are making it usable again, and you are gonna travel with it, to me that is respecting it

very nice. bringing an old anvil back even if was a really old one into use is more beautiful than seeing an old one rusted and sitting somewhere not being use

I'm a person who loves history and enjoys your videos. I think you've done an excellent job of restoration. I know how you feel when it comes to preservation because I am a steam engine enthusiast and I'm not a fan when they covert a coal fired engine to oil, but you've done an excellent job. I do not claim to know anything about blacksmithing, and I admire your enthusiasm for it. I hope to see more videos.

Great video and talk through. That anvil looks and sounds top spec. Please keep up the good work. Awesome.

always a fun watch. I love your videos man. I'm really new to smithing, and you've given me some of the best advice I've received since starting.

I have the twin brother to that anvil. It is in better shape and I love it. It is well used and has some life left. When the time comes, I want a bro like you to fix it! Good strong work, keeping this workhorse on the job.

The fact your bringing it back to life-is respect.

$125?!! Good find! Nice anvil Chandler. Appreciate the work you put into the videos. Thanks bro.

Beautiful man. Wish we lived closer so I could come check out the show.

That tiny anvil is just so adorable :D

This video really makes me think i might one day decide to purchase a sand blaster :) Always a joy to watch Chandler do his thing :D

Great job. You continue to impress me. Of course my kids tell me I'm easily impressed, but still damn fine work.

Looks like you did a great job repairing it. Thanks for the video

I'm in love you did an amazing job of restoring the anvil (or at least I think so)

just pick up my anvil this morning , needs a little love but is nice ,and shot for the video,s gives a lot of inspiration ,take care and God bless.

Really enjoyed the video. As with all job's there is always some much more than you first realise. Always learning. I have an anvil,(with a surname like Smith, you have to own one.) Next time I am in my workshop I will perform the ring and bounce test and treat it with a lot more respect.

Really great video. I know nothing of forging (picking locks is more my thing), but your videos are very well put together and your narrative excellent. I respect the values you express in your videos, too. Thanks for your superb efforts and keep up the good work. Also, if there are any channels that particularly inspire you, I'd be interested to hear of them.

Well I wish I lived next door to you cause my anvil's bust up. Got her cheap but wouldn't dare attempt to repair it without you there :) well done!!

Most interesting, man. I mostly do wood and motorcycles, but you make me want to anvil hunt.

How strange, I've been thinking about you for the past few days and an old video of yours shows up in my suggested feed. I miss your work and hope you're doing well in life. God bless.

Good job mate, a bit of history back to working use, that's what it's all about. Well done.

Watching your videos here of late has gotten me back to smithing, and for that i thank you. I have an 1911 peter wright very similar to your new anvil, then again, those anvils looked pretty similar throughout the years. All in all, that restoration looked very good. It didn't look like you lost too much temper at all. But in conclusion, thanks for rekindling my fire for forging and smithing.

Yes, all Peter Wright anvils have a tool steel face forge welded onto a solid wrought iron base. The swayback you noticed in your anvil is very common to Peter Wrights, as they used 100% NEW wrought iron, rather than recycled like most of their competitors. The recycled was more hodge-podge and could potentially lead to unusual fractures. But the NEW was more easily deformed... I just picked up a 246 lb Peter Wright which is also worn in the middle badly. I'm going to weld my face up, though, rather than grinding it flat. My understanding is, best practice for welding an anvil is to use S6 mig wire, rather than an arc welder. You get a lot less heat penetrating into the anvil with MIG than with arc. The S6 is air-hardening steel, so it will get about the same hardness as the rest of the anvil just by air-cooling. Hard facing rod is more about creating an abrasive resistant surface than an impact one, or so I am told. And you might wind up with brittle edges... But, this is all kind of hearsay. I haven't done it myself yet, but I hope to restore my Peter Wright this weekend, I'm enlisting the aid (and bigger welder) of the master smith from whom I apprentice who has restored a few in the past. Not sure how he does it, but I'll find out!

great job man!! looks awesome. cheers from Texas.

watching this and got to the point when he shows us the welding rods and heard the HIGHWAY MEN in the background mad respect

Just found your channel yesterday. I am an aspiring blacksmith. Haven't tried to do the first thing yet, AND I have a 100lbs Peter Wright. Got it for $100 at a yard sale. It had a piece broken off the top that was built back up with low carbon welding. Hope that was the correct method. Watching the video was very enjoyable and informative.

It looks great! It would be interesting to see how it holds up with use.

Well done I have a very old anvil in my stuido I don't use much but I've often wondered if it was possible to fix its surface. Thanks for sharing this, now I know how.

your passion is a credit to you,Look after your tools,they will look after you. well done

going this weekend to look at 3 anvils, one Peter wright don't know what the others are, owner says there all over 200lbs. Pretty stoked about it, been looking for an anvil for 7 years.

Looks great !! I wish I could have seen you put the corners on. I've never seen anyone do that before.

Looks amazing now. We'd appreciate if you let us know how it performs at the next show.

Great job on the anvil, i'm sure it will serve you well! I just picked up a Peter Wight anvil the other day to replace the railroad track I have been using. It needs some repair also, but It is about 229 pounds and I got a great deal.

Hey man good work. i was worried I would not be able to get a good anvil because of the price but you gave me hope with this one.

Good job giving the anvil a new life!!!!

Never mind what others think about your ideas and stop apologizing. You work with strong steel and fire, not with panty liners. It is your gig, your time, your fuel, your muscle, your tools, your camera, your show. ;) take care.

Highest respect for what you are doing, the way you are doing it and ... thanks for some Waylon by the way :)

I just picked up a second PW anvil myself. I had to come back to this video to review my path forward. Still miss your routine video's, hope all is well.

Dam good job, looks beautiful.

Absolutely loved the little vise intro😀😀👍👍👍

Nice job restoring that anvil!

I like the way you narrate and leave out all the sparks if you know what I mean. Thanks!

Looks great, nice job

Better to restore and use an old anvil than to let it waste away. Looks like you did a damn good job =)

I just noticed you use the same coal as i do, your videos are really helpful.

I personally think you did right by that anvil ! It looks great and will serve for many years to come.....

Nice work, it came out very nice..

I also have two Peter Wright anvils, about he same weight. Cost me roughly $300 each. I performed similar refurbishments a few years ago, though mine weren't in quite as poor condition. I stripped the rust and welded the edges, then ground the face, edges, horn, base. Used an 8 inch diameter angle grinder to level the face. Tried an Automotive machine shop for resurfacing the face. They tried using their old surface grinder. Said he spent half an hour trying to make that work, but gave up as ineffective. At least he didn't charge me. When completed, I painted both anvils, everything except the Faces, with 2,000 degree primer and 2,000 degree Black Paint to keep them from rusting. I oil the faces but keep them bare. They turned out Great.

hello mr. Dickinson! don't worry about welding anvils, in my opinion if you cant use it , fix it!on another note, all peter wrights were made in England, all were wrought iron with a forge welled face plate, All OF THEM!you have a perfect anvil there, it obliviously went to the right home. really like your vids.Ethan

Looks great. I just bought a Peter Wright. Got it home and cleaned her up and looks like someone in the past had welded a metal plate on top. It has a lot of marks and pings on top. Wish I could send you a photo for your opinion.

Many years ago I helped a friend with an old, worn anvil which he wanted to be used in a training facility. It was in poor shape through the years of use. He had the face, table, heel and both sides built up and out with weld. This was done over the course of about a week. I then fiddled about and ground the table and face on a large reciprocating grinder. Turned it over and ground the feet parallel to the face. Grinding the sides was tricky but it worked out OK. The heel was ground by hand and then dressed as were the Hardie and Pritchel holes. It did not look new ( in fact far from it ) but looked used and fantastic.

Looks good!

I got a large anvil and 4 more blacksmith tools and a set of scales , just before a D-7 cat tore the building down , the shop belonged to my wife's great grandfather but none of the family wanted any of of , the anvil needs about the same repairs.

One of my anvils (Peter Wright 1-2-1) needed a tuneup about like yours, except no paint! To repoint the horn we used pikes in the pike holes, turned it upside down with the horn in the fire. Wet mud at the horn base and once a red heat, easily tapped into shape. Anvil horns are just wrought iron, so with a little more heat from a rosebud tip, even the splits in the very tip healed right up. Ain't wrought iron wonderful to work with? We used about 10 pounds of Stoody Build Up rod to line the entire face and edges. A friendly engine machine shop milled the face. We rounded most of the edges to our liking and that was that. Been doing good work with it for about 30 years.

Ya fix it the way ya need to fit your needs in this time in history. Good job . Love to have it myself.

That turned out great!

"It's a little stubby but it's there" I think that's the rule of thumb for most things

Nice job well done !!

Good man, good work, keep at it !

Love the Waylon you got playing in back lol

Congrats, nice find! :) That spraycan stripper stuff never really worked for me. Anglegrinder+Wirewheel+Dustmask is my preferred cleanup method ^^

love your music and video. thanks

Oh fer cryin' out loud, don't worry about a simple thing that we all do! Excellent videography and your narration kept me interested .... and I'm not even a blacksmith.

Good work on that anvil. If I bought it, it would be to use it.

We have about a 150 pound Fischer Norris anvil in my basement, was my grandads. He worked on anything and everything from Cars and Bikes, to Cranes and other industrial equipment.

Heck of a deal on that anvil, congrats.

That shiny anvil just recites man, first time that I see a shiny anvil you could amost see your reflection.

Damn good job bro!

Looks Good, I'm jealous.

the word you are looking for is Restoration. Nicely Done.

Good video Chandler I have been thinking about doing this to my endville I also have a Peter Wright that I got at a auction some of the sides are chipped like a lot of Peter rights did.

looking good!

Nice work!

Thank you for this video. It has been nearly 3 years since you did this restoration. How has it held up? Are the edges wearing or chipping? I'm about to do the same thing on an old anvil I got and would really like your input / assessment.

cracking job on that anvil !!! would be nice if the whole thing was shiny xD but we all know it wont last like that. Good job !

I think you did a fantastic job on that

I have a perter wright about the same as the one you have it has a date of about 1875 on the side and there are some pieces missing on the edges like your and and has a sway back in the middle. I need to do what you have done soon. thanks for the video

Chandler, I agree with the comments already posted....piss on what others think, as long as it works no worries. Thanks for the video, it's always cool watching your vids and I learn alot. Please keep them coming!

I bought an anvil from a company called ACME and now all of a sudden every where I go this big X appears underneath me. What can I do about this problem?

Beautiful job i think! If you are worried by the possible loss of hardening you can still try to find a Laser hardening shop near you. We did laser hardening on Big press tooling in my last workplace and it worked out perfektly. You can even have it plated with stellites by using this method...

pretty, would have liked to see the surface ground then welded hard faced then fly cut on a mill.

too funny that I come across this now. I just sat down from about a half day of grinding on my anvil to try and get the pits out of it. boy what a lot of work, it's certainly not flat, but it wasn't to begin with. it's much smoother though. I may go farther with it in the future but I thought it was a big improvement. I really like the idea of fixing the edges by welding them. have you run into any problems with that after working on it? I'm not versed at all in welding but I'm getting into it, this might get added to my to do list.

Looks like you did a nice job

Any plans for a video of the forge being redone? I have a similar one I'm working on.

The exact reason I never use chemical stripper on metal. Paint layer after paint layer and you end up using a bunch of stripper for way to much money, only to end up with a wire brush. Heat gun on full blast and burn the crap off. If it's thick enougj, propane torch it.

you stole that thing for that price. Beautiful piece man

Nice job!!!

my dad told me to never arc weld on my anvil, it looses its temper and it takes a lot, to get it back.. he said just grind the edge.

your thought on hard facing with arc welding please on a 15kg anvil

After using those hard rods did the edges ever break or flatten out??

Hey! Just wanted to ask how things are going for you, are you making an okay amount of money doing this?

I have 2 Peter wrights anvils also. One is in much worse shape than your no 2 . I would need 250 to 300$ for it. Its 176 lbs. You got a really good deal on yours. I haven't seen one go on auction for less than 1.50 to 2$ and that was 15 years ago. Yours sounds just like both of mine.