11/18/2023 0 Comments Anvil stand with viseThat reduces the likely-hood of splitting from two screws being in the same part of the woodgrain and leaves room in the middle for a carriage bolt. I put the screws in in a triangular pattern. Use a square to make sure the leg is at a right angle while driving in the screws. I then drove in three screws into both ends of the 2圆s into the leg. The two shorter ones and the two longer ones go opposite of each other. I put one deck screw through the top of each corner of the top into the legs. I then tacked together the two 2x10s temporarily so that they could be laid directly over the legs. Lets get started by cutting the wood to size and then assembling it. Two 3/8" by 3" bolts with matching nuts and washers Scrap metal for reinforcements - 1"x3/16" flat steel stock, about 6 feet long total Hereafter, I will can lumber by its common name. Another common practice is to use the " mark to indicate inches and ' to indicate feet. For example, the 2x4s that I use is an odd extra wide piece. I addition, because I am building with USED lumber some of it is non-standard. For example, a "2x4" is 1.5 inches thick, by 3.5 inches wide. In the United States, lumber is named by it's width and height in inches, but is actually SMALLER than that size. I merely had to pound out the nails and cut the lumber to length. Instead of sending it all to the landfill, I took home several planks that looked like a useful size. As part of my work, I needed to remove wood torn out from the remodeling project and put it in a dumpster. I was working a construction job the week before I built this. This is a zero budget project, with no runs to the hardware store and no cash out of pocket. MATERIALS:Įvery single piece of material in this entire project was recycled, salvaged, scrap, or in the case of a handful of nuts and bolts came from the bin in my garage. If using a grinder, a face shield is also a nice piece of equipment to have. Most of the tools for this project are typical woodworking tools, a few basic metal tools, and optionally the most basic of blacksmithing tools.Īnd of course, Personal Protective Equipment - Safety Glasses, Hearing Protection, Work Gloves, and anything else required for the tools you are using. Lets start off by looking at the tools and materials required. Now lets take a look at the tools and materials needed for the project. Subtract the height of your anvil, and you should have the height of your stand, in this case about 23 inches. That should be the height of the top of your anvil. Measure from your knuckles to the ground. While standing, with your arm at your side, wrap your hand around a hammer. Video is even better, and seeing a live demonstration with a real master is best of all.Īll of the books, videos, and smiths I spoke with say that you want the top of the anvil to be "knuckle-height". Try to find ones with good photography and illustrations. I also read several books on blacksmithing from the library and watched an instructional blacksmithing video. I attended a blacksmithing get-together at the Upper Midwest Blacksmithing Association Meeting ( UMBA) which is a member group of ABANA That would give enough room for my small anvil, with some additional space for tools, and maybe even a place for a small vise. There's some nice ones out there!) I decided that I wanted to build it from wood with the top roughly 18-inches-square. I have already seen some GREAT-LOOKING anvil stands. What similar projects have other people done? What materials do I have on hand (or want to spend the money for) The first thing to do is to PLAN the project! This Instructable will take you through the steps I took to build a simple, yet nearly indescructible workbench that can hold up to the abuse of forging and repeated hammer blows. This anvil stand is built from completely recycled materials and features hand-forged steel corner reinforcements and tools holders. While there, I purchased a used 55 pound "starter-anvil" I've been interested in blacksmithing for a long time, but only recently visited a blacksmithing association meeting and demonstration day. My workspace is limited, so I have no room to permanently mount an anvil on concrete, a piece of tree trunk, or other extra-heavy or immovable object. It's lighter and more portable than a chunk of tree trunk and can be built to a custom size and shape, and can include additional workspace and tool-holders. No, an "anvil stand" is NOT a yoga position, nor something done at a frat party.Īn anvil stand is simply a place to put your anvil for blacksmithing.
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