I decided to make a little anvil.

[Mart]

I saw a post on the hamb, in the very interesting "Home made tools" thread, showing a small anvil made from a piece of railroad track. This is quite a popular thing to do and mostly involves large amounts of grinding. There are lots of videos on youtube that I found after I made mine. (Doh!) Anyway, my approach was to try and do as much as I could on my 4x6 bandsaw, and finish it on my milling machine. It's a neat little item, you wouldn't want to do serious blacksmithing on one of these, but it's nice to have in the workshop and I treated it as a learning exercise. If you have some time to spare you can follow the video series. There are four in all, one shows cutting it out, the others show the machining.

I would appreciate any feedback, good bad or indifferent, especially with regards to the videoing.

So if you are not doing anything in particular, why not join me in my shop for a little while.

Here's the first one:
https://youtu.be/RBFi30SXJs4

Part 2:
https://youtu.be/Bqoc1cNmLlg

Part 3:
https://youtu.be/gQgbC67b8pc

Part 4:
https://youtu.be/g6ysPF2EERk

Thanks

Mart.