Hand Carving a Stone Anvil Base

Hand carving a stone anvil base with Mr Chickadee. Upon the advice from master blacksmith Joshua Greenwood we decided to carve a base for our anvil from a solid stone block. The stone was split first using a cape chisel and wedges we custom forged for this type work. The block was rough shaped using a stone hammer/axe and finish faced with a quarry pick.
A variety of hand chisels were used to carve and smooth the top to accept the anvil in a solid and stable plane. Master blacksmith Greenwood had the idea to use a drift pin from the stone up into the square handling hole in the anvil base, which worked very well!

Mr Greenwood also sourced our anvil which is a vintage 300lb German Church Windows anvil.

This new set up is much more stable than any wood base, making the anvil a mountain of useful, immobile mass.

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