I didn't expect you to make a video so soon, but i'm thankful that you did. I hope the Anvil will be useful for you. This garlic invention looks awesome, great job.

I would like to see the broken anvil

When i got my anvil, the postman who handed me the package asked "What did you order there? that is heavy like an anvil!" 😂

*@Way Out West - Workshop Stuff* 2:03 Genius design! So simple & functional :D

one nice trick about anvils is that you want them to be really bounce a hammer back up when you hit them. you'll get 2x as much force out of each blow of your hammer if the anvil pushes back up into the piece instead of absorbing the blow. you may want to consider doing some loosely held hammer strikes and seeing if the head of the hammer bounces back up almost to where you dropped it from. your arms will thank you in the future!

On Christ Centered Iton Works, Roy has a video on how to dress an anvil similar to yours. It is helpful to have some radiused edges and some crisper ones. Blacksmith work is great fun. Frank

Hi Tim, No doubt you will use one but that spike needs a cover when not in use, you don't want any human meat on that skewer. Great video as ever.

Your ingenuity never ceases to amaze me.

Very satisfying using your own charcoal🥰

Thank you for the great review! We’re so happy you loved your experience and can’t wait to have you back in the future.

it is so satisfying making stuff you need with your hands.....and Anvil

Awsome work! and not i want to eat fryed bread with garlic! Its kinda my nation's speciality... Or honestly anything with garlic tvh. Garlic from our garden is not that bag and impressive and honestly I am glad to see supermarket buying local produce!

Great first project, First day out of the box and the anvil has already earned my resect, A very hand tool to make tools.

Hello Tim, student blacksmith here. You dont have to fully dry you charcoal or any coal for that matter. In fact I always keep the coals on the outside damp an neatly packed. I sprinkle water on them to keep the fire contained. It's also important that you keep a fair amount of coal on the side of the forge. This way when the coals in the middle burns away you push the wet/damp coals to the middle and put some new ones on the outside. I hope this explanation makes sense. If not I would be happy to explain it in a different/maybe more clear way.

You could forge some pins to connect the train waggons

Outstanding Forge Video Sir Cheers 👌🧐👍🍻

I have been wondering about the Vevor Anvils. Thanks for showing me one in action. They are small but like you I don't actually need a full size one. All the best.

My Husband says your amazing at what you do.GodBless and Good Luck 🤞.

The square hole holds tools for cutting and shaping.

Cool man! Bang up job. The Japanese smiths prefer the charcoal.

Ye needeth a cork or a thimble to place on the end of your new, fine garlic spike so that nobody gets spiked during the off-season, by accident of course. Ouch!

For some reason i expected Tim to having made that anvil himself.

Excellent work Young Tim, thank you for sharing your, erm, spike!

tim and sandra hello i am watching from trinidad and tobago

Vevor seem to like you!!! Great stuff!!! Maybe we'll see some hand-forged upholstery on Tornado some time in the future, or even hand forged tools and the like!!! love it!

Looks like your garlic threader works very well!

A nice anvil!

Oh, the labelling needle is kinda like a crocheting hook. Interesting.

I have a water distiller made by VEVOR its lab grade and a top bit of kit. They make some diverse stuff but from what I can see its usually good kit.

I've got some blacksmith's tongs in the shed that I bought years ago in a job lot of tools from a workshop that was closing down. I've never used them, so if you would like me to pop them in the post to you I'd be more than happy to

Thanks Tim

Did somebody manage to _break_ the other anvil? I didn't know you could do that.

Another video! Great one. Vevor are everywhere! It’s amazing

That, good sir, is (probably) not an anvil. It is shaped like an anvil but likely made of low grade cast iron. It is an anvil-shaped object. I predict that the edges will chip out when you start using it. You can make a perfectly serviceable post anvil. Just a few inches of nice square hard steel edge is all that most of us need. The horn is nice but rarely used. You need 2 in of edge, 5-10 square inches of flat space, and a hardy hole for tooling.

Great job!

Yes new video:)

I've used charcoal for nearly all of my forging, for what it's worth my 0.02, I'd advise do be quite liberal with how much char you use, just like a coal forge where coal on the periphery of the fire will turn to coke with the waste heat, char on the edges will dry nicely and this helps keep the fire consistant Always love hearing when people notice and get personal experience with just how much better a charcoal forge smells :) if you use hardwoods like maple and hickory it can smell very pleasant and pine has its own charm Cheers!

Too bad you didn't show the broken one. Now I keep wondering. 😆

great video man! its also satisfying to see hot metal bend and stretch!

How does an anvil not survive transport??

It *must* be possible to at least partially automate that spike. At least adding the label and the string, even if a human still "spikes" the garlic and triggers the contraption?

Love the bellow/air box. Brilliant.

If you bribe your local postal worker with snacks and colds drinks they tend to not mind lugging stuff like that about

Awesome as always Tim 😊

As you advance you will note copious sparks as you hit the steel. You will also have hot scale about. It’s quite a fire hazard. You may need to Hoover up all the bits of straw and sawdust around the fire pot. Wearing cotton clothing is supposed to be better than synthetic stuff in event of conflagration.

i love to see more and more ghetto blacksmiths lmao, good job basically my forge right now.

On a semi-related note, have you considered an old 2-stroke hot-bulb engine for your loco? I was just at our local A & P show, and some enthusiasts had row of wee(-ish) ones going. They have at least 80 per cent of the romance of steam, but without having to buggerize about with boiler regs. These ones all had PTOs with a flat-belt, and of course you don't need a reverse gear since they run in either direction. Horribly inefficient but they'll chug along on just about anything including (apparently) waste oil straight from the chippy and even wood creosote. Surely there must still be a good few of these lurking about Ireland (or elsewhere in the EU)? Indeed they're so mechanically simple that you could just about knock one up in your workshop. Just a thought...

Good job Tim! :)

I like it!

*@Way Out West - Workshop Stuff* I have heard stories about my great grandfather (a smith in Sweden a long time ago) using fir cones instead of coal for smiting when the times was REALLY rough. Could you try that? And show what results do you get? (in comparison to other coals & such?) Maybe you need to dry the cones first?

Charcoal & coal will burn about the same temp. You need a deeper fire so you don't oxidize your steel.

Hurrah! More to lust after!

did Wiley Coyote just drop the anvil off?

Sweet! :)

Lovely little anvil! But the tagging of the garlics is way slow. Have you considered purchasing a tagging gun? it will work much faster attaching your labels to the garlic heads.

What weight of anvil did you get? It looks like a perfect size.

Darn it, I've already missed the end date for the promotion of the Vevor anvil. Was it 12th May 2022 or am I being pedantic?

WonderfuL. But I do wonder, how does an anvil get damaged by faulty packaging? I would think everything except the anvil would get damaged...

What size is the hardy hole?

Strange how can a postal service break an anvil?

Have you found that diving tank compressor on Vevor yet Tim ?

Mail service so bad it broke a anvil!

Outstanding ... really enjoyable to watch! Unfortunately we live in a smokeless zone so I'm stuck using mapp gaz bottles... not terrible but not as fun! Little brackets and so on... You need to find something you can CNC then finish with the forge and anvil... sure that whatever you come up with would sell well 😀

That looks a lot of fun. How much charcoal did you use? I have made my own yet it burns very quickly and terrifically hot. I'd get through buckets and buckets of it I think. I can't make any more - too smoky.

How did the delivery managed to brake an anvil?

I like yuors canel

Hey Tim, how much can Tornado pull?

Oh! Dear! I hope the Postmaster's toe heals by Christmas, or half the West Coast of Eire will miss out on Christmas Crackers. For the anvil to break in half, it must've dropped from the top shelf, Ouch! 😳

It must be a rough transport if an anvil can't survive it.

the first thing i suggest you forge is actually a pair of tongs so you do not have to bust the temper in other tools, you also get to customize it to be just right! Also as you are not so seasoned with the hammer, please be sure to use a propper technique so that you do not end up straining your elbow and shoulder!

Boop

What a pity/shame! Where does the second anvil might have gone? Stolen? Return to sender?

how tf do u destroy an anvil in shipping?