File Cutter's Anvil 

Hells yeah, It's been seven years since I've been across the pond. Planning on a Europe trip next year, fingers crossed.

@@rigoniironworks 🤞😎

It's an 'anvil' with a soft metal face i think it was tin but I have no idea, it is used to chisel the teeth on a handmade file, because once you have chiseled one side, you will need a very soft surface to put the freshly cut teeth of if you want to be able to cut teeth on the other side, without running the teeth on the first side, both must be done while the steel is in its soft (annealed) state and it would be very easy to ruin the teeth on the bottom. I'm honestly surprised this works and they didn't use wax or pitch like chasers and engravers

Many thanks! But believe me, there is a mountain of failures for every project.

Yes, I'm building all the tools, then making some hand files. Working on the chisels today.

@@rigoniironworks I'll look forward to that.

​@rigoniironworks Did you find something regarding the angles of the chisels? I've tried but found nothing about that in german sources as well as in english. There were some books about the topic but postage to Europe is very expensive 😅

No worries, freehand forging is fine for certain applications, and you would think it's faster, but it isn't. Having to forge down, then switch to calipers and carefully measure bar thickness over a long span is silly. I build tooling so I can forge full force on the power hammer to move it as fast as possible, knowing I won't be able to over forge and ruin the work. Another thing to consider is the rougher the forging, the more file/grinding you have to do afterwords.

@@rigoniironworks Speed and precision. Love it. Thank you

Thanks for the link. What a great man presenting. Knowledgeable, no fluff.

The biggest chunk of steel I had was 2.5" square. Upsetting the top got it to around 3" square.

@@rigoniironworks Thank you. Another fine video, we're able to see exactly what you're doing.

What metal was added? It looked like silver but I have no idea why that would be useful for file cutting. Aluminum is another metal I could see maybe melting like that but, though not as soft as silver, also not hard.

Tin. My first test was with lead, but after enough people warned me of the health hazards, I switched to tin.

Clearly I wasn’t quite awake yet. 😂 Otherwise, I’d not have replied in your thread, kind sir. Appreciate the pointer and reply. Will now skulk off to read.

I haven't tried it yet. The idea is the tin face protects the file blank teeth when cutting.

​@@rigoniironworksпонятно, спасибо. Надеюсь, вы покажете это приспособление в работе?