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Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

>What do you think of this "Huge Blow Horn Anvil Stake, Signed?"

Pam


Blow Horn Anvil on ebay

Re: Speaking of ebay and tongs...

Todd Hughes

>Is a Tinsmith or coppersmith Blow horn stake...used in forming tin and copper, not really a blacksmith tool. Don't know if I would call it "huge" as all are about this size. A Very common stake though having a makers name like this on it is unusual [most you see are probably made by PEXTO]. Probably worth $75 to maybe $100. I don't think having the name on it will help it much but you never know and could go for more...of course a bidder looking for PEXTO tools may bid less too

This tool and other stakes should NEVER be put in an Anvils hardy hole and am a little currious that the seller who obvious knows about tools would hint otherwise. These Stakes have a tappered shank and go into a metal Stake plate or holder wich have tappered sockets sized to fit them.An Anvil hardy hole is straight sided and when you put a tappered shank in one if used much it will get jammed in. I once bought a big Hay Budden anvil where a stake had been basicaly peined into place by trying to beat it out from the bottom. The seller told me all it needed was a hammer to "Knock" it out. I thought it strange that he hadn't done this as he had a good many hammers for sale also....I ended up drilling it and cutting the shank out with a torch using about my years worth of allotment of cussing in the process.....Todd

I sent a message

Joe Piotrowski - Chicago Burb's

>to the guy via the ask a seller a question feature. I did ask him if he was really going to sell a box for hundreds of dollars and that is not right. I sure hope he took it down on it's own.

it's very sad to see such morally corrupt people and just how many there are doing stuff like that daily on web commerce sites.

of course the numb skulls need to read and ask questions before bidding with that kind of cash.

to be forewarned is to be forearmed. and to have four arms makes it tough to buy a sweater.

buyer beware.

Nope...

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

>No plane in the pictures at all. Just the box.

I'm curious why ebay pulled it myself. Seemed on the up and up as far as auctions go.

Speaking of auctions...

Joe Rogers, Northern Virginia

>I never got that dollar bill you had in the photo of the Sargent #79 I won a while back. Should I send you my address???? :-)JR

Re: Speaking of ebay and tongs...

Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

>Thank you so much, Todd, another dollar saved (I was looking for a smallish anvil for saw teeth setting).

Pam

Re: Speaking of ebay and tongs...

Dave Burnard

>Pam,

Just a cube or rectangular solid shaped hunk of steel will work. One hardened face is enough, or you could probably get away with no hardened faces for setting only. Another scrounging possibility is a short section of railroad rail where you regrind the top to a suitable shape. You can usually find some sort of rail at a scrapyard. Hida sells a saw setting/plane tapping anvil that is essentially the same railroad rail shape.

Pretty funny

Todd Hughes

>You know I get alot of comments on my Ebay dollar bill esp. since I started using the sublminal message coming from George saying " Bid High" .....Todd

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Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

>Thanks, Dave. I was very taken with the square anvil Mark is pounding in the Woodwork magazine metate article. I visited the local scrap yard a year or two ago and bought a roughly 1' by 2' by 1" plate to serve as my main anvil; but the dang thing stays rusty regardless of how much sanding I do. I suppose it doesn't matter all that much, but I hate the idea of transferring rust to tools.

I had no idea that Hida carried a small anvil, I'll give them a call. Is it roughly the same as the one in Japan Woodworker, page 14 of the latest catalog?

Pam

Re: Speaking of small anvils...

Dave Burnard

>I hate rust! I've got a nice 3x6 sized anvil i want to use for flattening/straightening and it has a couple of surface pits that seem to "erupt" and re-rust their immediate vicinity whenever I'm not looking. Flattening an anvil with a belt sander is for the birds, so I need to make friends with a machinist.

The one from Hida is rounded over on one end of the rail, but otherwise pretty similar. Don't forget to stock up with their 10% Xmas sale. ;)

Re: Speaking of small anvils...

Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

> Don't forget to stock up with their 10% Xmas sale. ;)

Yeah, and that's exactly what I'm afraid of, got to pad out those orders. :)

Pam