Musical Anvil
 

This is awesome:

I have to agree, that was fairly awesome.

Cool! I'd hate to pack it to gigs though.

maybe it's my ear, but I couldn't discern much of a diff in tones. too high for my ear, I guess.

I can't really imagine it integrating very well with a bunch of other instruments. I guess that's why I'm not a musician or composer.

I've got a ~130ish Hay Budden anvil showing up sometime today, so I'm going to give this a try.

Maybe it's my ear, but I couldn't discern much of a diff in words.
Too foreign for my ear, I guess.

That's a man who would keep you warm at night though.

with his red hot poker?

By God he's got fat and pasty since the glory days:


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Is that a pretty big anvil in the world o' metal working?

It's pretty small. The bigger the anvil the better when it comes to blacksmithing. Jeweler anvils tend to be 20 lbs or less.

100 lbs is the minimum knife maker anvil. That's because the hammer weight should be at most 1/30th that of your anvil.

Most people use a 2 lbs+ hammer to forge knife-sized high carbon steel stock. If you do partial tang knives you'll probably go up to a 5 or 6 lb sledge to draw down the tang with a spring fuller. (Assuming you don't have a power hammer or hydraulic press.) That means your anvil needs to be 180 lbs if your sledge is 6 lbs.

I have a band new 250 lb Fontanini anvil on order. Should be ready sometime in August if the foundry holds up their end of the bargain.

I've got some pics of me making knives at the class I took this week. I need to resize them, then I'll post them with a bit of commentary in the Creative Expression forum...

Groovie, can't wait to see them.

I don't perceive much of "notes" here either. I would imagine you would need multiple anvils tuned to different relative pitches--relative because most percussion idophones (such as drumset cymbals) do not have a true pitch, but a sort of general swell in the harmonics which the ear hears in a general scale in relation to other idiophones. The anvil does appear to sound different "notes" when struck in different places (such as a ride cymbal's "bell" sound), but the dominant overtones really wash out most of these differences. They might be more apparent if the anvil were "choked" between notes, but I imagine it's not as easy as stopping a few pounds of b20 bronze from vibrating.

By the way I thought this was going to be about Anvil.