I love my anvil. I don’t baby it, but I don’t abuse it either. I have some projects coming up that will require some serious team sledge work and having either my 8-pound or my behemoth 14-pound sledge slip and hit my anvil face could be catastrophic. Solution: build a striking anvil.
I ordered the 2-part 3 inch thick face already laser cut from Uncle Buck’s Forge on Etsy and had it in my forge after just a few evenings of cutting, welding, grinding, prep, and paint. It is 24″ high, the face is 3″ thick by 5″ wide by 13″long with a 1″ hardy hole.
Total cost was less than $200 with the ordered parts, recycled oil, sand, steel for the legs, primer/paint, and electricity/fluxcore wire used to weld it up.