Blacksmithing - Mounting my 400 lb anvil 

yea, I'm familiar with this law 😂

like if you have real trouble fitting something into a car or a box or something, when you finally manage to get it to fit, the dad is obliged to say "like it was made for it!", "like a glove!" or "with room for a spare!"

No, I believe that law only applies definitively, if your son is standing a few meters away and looking nervously as if the anvil is suddenly going to jump sideways and land on his feet.

@@Gameboygenius na, it's definitely to be said every time you tighten a strap.

Too right cobber :)

Ha ha.... but your's is much cooler, mate! I wish I could speak like David Attenborough, then anything would be interesting to listen to. :)

@@torbjornahman Not true. Your voice is quite unique and suits you. Also your pronunciation of the English word is very good. Stay the way you are. That is what we like about you.

@@torbjornahman "Nordic English" have more color to it. Stay your way, please.

Scandinavians are often easier to understand in English than native English speakers. Australians? Not so much.

Thank you!

His English gets better and better in every video!

I only heard 3 slight mistakes which is WAY better than most Swedes who, in general, believe their English to be better than it actually is!

@@GregorShapiro Well,I'm a Brit living in Sweden and I would say that about a lot of Brits too.

Indeed! I have tried a bit to find out where all the patterns went, but haven't been able to find out more.

I get your point and agree, but to be fair, if any business makes it 450 yrs-the emotional response could easily be pride instead of sadness.

It lived far past the life of the economy that supported it. Tough to make tools for trades that no longer exist at the level that demanded such tools. You can still buy a brand new farrier’s anvil though as a counter example.

@@torbjornahman Aren’t they still talking about MAYBE trying to restart the company? Or it might just be dreams that have been posted online... fingers crossed, cause I’d love to have a brand new one from them. A nice little 100kg A1 or A4

@@Qrunch I'm not so sure... lets hope it's true!

I feel that Torbjörn has the balance perfected. Mostly “asmr” but with a sprinkling of spoken content. Being an arborist, I am also a huge fan of the mini garden adventures.

Let's hear your Swedish accent!

@@moparlarsson yeah, his english is damn perfect with very very little accent, which is totally lovely and interesting, i myself talk like a mexican jejeje

Hello Mr fabulous. regarding Batavialand historic ship wharf, I just moved to Leeuwarden and desparate to start blacksmithing again (my previous workshop is in UK). Do you by ANY CHANCE do of any blacksmithing workshops or know of any blacksmiths in Friesland or nearby? I know its a long shot but thought i would ask in case! thanks!

“Ironwood”, lol. We hav a species here in Ohio called Ironwood, as it sparks steel tools that cut it. High silica content.

You can also mix the scale with vinegar to make a stain for the wood.

A friend wanted our scale for home made linseed paint. Basically her process was wash it. While suspended in fluid magneticly separate it from dirt (or whatever wont stick to a magnet). Dried into cupcakes pan then ground to powder in a rock tumbler. From there mixed into her secret blend of oils.

Cool! Yes, you're right. I haven't thought about that. I guess you would have to grind it to powder then...

Pistachio trees love those scales; moist them and mix with soil and feed the tree around the root.

@@torbjornahman My wife is an art teacher and she has a potters wheel and kiln at home in her workshop. She would love maybe 0.5kg of your scale to grind up and use with glazes. Please let me know if you would be willing to sell some.

Check out Sculpt Nuveau's products. Good stuff.

@@thecorbies Nice! Send me a message on IG/FB or my web page!

I agree

I agree

I think so.

It is nice but I have to say I do like John's new one at Black Bear Forge! :-) I'm just envious as I don't have one of my own. Yet!

@@kirtodam6540 I think a double horn would be sweet.

Thanks!

I saw that too

Yes he has the post buried and I think that would deaden the last bits here too... I will see if something under the wood helps!

The two ways to make things quiet are isolation and adding mass. You probably aren’t going to make the anvil heavier, but making the whole thing stiffer transfers more vibration into the floor which is like adding mass. But the wooden pedestal isn’t super stiff and only some frequencies are going through to the floor. So you can try to make the pedestal even stiffer and really fix it to the floor or (probably better) isolate the pedestal with sound deadening material. Could be as simple as putting the existing pedestal on a layer of sand in a sandbox. Wet or oily sand may work better. Or you could make something more serious by sandwiching mass loaded vinyl between sheets of plywood. Finally consider that the sound is echoing around the room, reflecting off surfaces, especially the flat concrete floor. You want it to be absorbed, not reflect off surfaces. Adding floor grating might help break up the reflected noise.

@@torbjornahman how about some rubber between the anvil and brackets?

@@marginatux No, I don't think that will do any good.

Very kind, thanks!!

Thanks! That is great to hear. Just keep at it and find new challenges!

I have already tried that... doesn't work on my anvil for some reason.

Thank you!

So true, but in usa we usually start in high school trying to learn other languages , way too late

The pleasure is mine, Robert! Thanks

Thank you so much!

I have seen this too from a couple people. Glad someone else commented on it too. Great to hear from you and appreciated the history.

It works for some, but not on this anvil... not sure why, maybe the size.

Great! I wouldn't try to fix that. Learn how to use the surface to your advantage. It's good for straightening stuff for example.

You're welcome! Thank you Brady!

Thanks! You're probably right, it was a very important tool!

Like the late great Jon Paul siggmason

Magnus VonMagnuson?

@Charles Brainard I'm a Scotsman and don't know what your talking about lol

@Charles Brainard I know exactly what you mean lol

:)

@@torbjornahman Your getting to intellectual with your answers Torbjon for this old fart of 78 who can barley type.

I don't think you need a layer at all... just contact over the entire surface.

@@torbjornahman I would agree if the damping is almost entirely derived from the wood. If you are using the "loss tangent" of the rubber as an energy-absorption/dissipation mechanism, then a (controlled) thick-layer would be beneficial.

Great! Thanks

Sounds like a great idea!

Until you drop red hot metal onto the rubber.

It was a two part epoxy resin he dyed black. Would work great to deaden the ring but that anvil is there forever now! Like was mentioned above, one hot bit of metal would melt it and smoke up real bad, too.

While it does kill the noise It also absorbs alot of the kinetic energy you want reflected back up through the anvil

@@johnnywoodbine9092 I think this is a theoretical question that might need to be addressed by some engineering students. I've been a blacksmith for well over a decade. I have tried solid mounting (anvil directly to solid stump), rubber mat, and silicone adhesive, and everything in between. Anything and everything to take the high frequency ring out of the equation. The silicone is the most effective to date. I have not found it to reduce the hammer's return. The rubber mat was actually the worst in that regard. Here's the point, when you're forging hot steel, you are deforming it, you are putting energy into changing its shape. An anvil may have a 995%+ return with a ball bearing but we don't hit the anvil with a hammer only. There is always something in the way that requires said energy to be deformed. I have had many close calls while forging and have missed or slightly missed the work piece and my hammer has returned violently and nearly hit my face. That experience dramatically demonstrates the energy that the hot steel steals. Sorry for the long rambling reply.

@@glennwiebe5128 From a purely theoretical perspective, rubber should (and I'm glad you're agreeing) be the worst. I should add I have next to no forging experience, but at one time I was one of those engineering students you speak of. With anything soft and elastically deformable between the anvil and it's base, you effectively have a sprung object, like a car. Much like with cars, if you increase the stiffness of the springs, or if you reduce the length of the springs, you reduce the travel after a given impact or load is applied. Using in this case what is now probably 1-2mm of silicone at the thickest, is a fairly short travel spring, and so will allow the anvil to move far less. In this way a thin layer of silicone is like a track car, and a thick rubber mat is like a trophy truck. They both absorb some impact, but a very different amount. If your end goal is to get 100% return from a bearing drop test, you need 2 things. 1 - for the surface to fully resist any deformation, and 2 - for the anvil to resist movement after the impact. Number one you'd implement by buying a good anvil with a hard top surface. Number two you'd implement by having the heaviest anvil possible, or having it attached as securely as possible to the biggest heavy thing you can find (the earth). In an ideal, and completely unrealistic scenario, a very overengineered steel grillages cast into a lot of concrete would be best for this, but to have any sound deadening, you need to sacrifice a little bit of the energy input! TL:DR, sound deadening costs whacking efficiency.

Thanks!

400 lbs = 182kg

@@JustinTopp It's literally cast into the side at 11:54

@@JustinTopp Thank you

@@jimurrata6785 Without knowing the language, even familiar words are incomprehensible because of the dialect, it is very difficult to understand which numbers mean what! Thanks.

@@user-sw8lh8cf7c Your reply in english is quite good! I meant no criticism. Only to show you where the mass was pointed out.

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Nope, not on this one... have tried a few things already.

I put those on and a lead plate under my Lokomo 50A. Bolted down firmly of course. Quite quiet now.

Tackar tackar! Ja, det går att grotta ner sig i industrihistoria rätt rejält om man vill. :)