Subject: Re: Vulcan Anvils???

From: [email-masked] (Noller, Joyce)
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 1996 23:01:46 -0700

Raymond Coon wrote:
> 
> Does anyone have any experience with Vulcan anvils?  I picked up a very good
> looking 65 pounder recently.  It has a hardened face welded on (apparently).
> Are Vulcans good quality?  I really didn't need it but anvils are so rare
> around here I thought I'd better get it.
> 
> R. Coon
I saw a Vulcan of about 150 lbs at an auction a few months ago.  The
face had been reground so many times it was down to about 1/8" thick.
Thing was dead as a doornail. Much to my surprise it sold for almost
$400. I asked the guy who bought it why he was willing to pay so much
for a dead anvil and he said the Vulcans are collector's items. Of
course later in the day I saw the same guy pay $325 for a siezed
Champion 400 on a mismatched farrier's forge that was missing about half
its parts so he might not have been a real rocket scientist...... 
Larry

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From: [email-masked] (Raymond Coon)
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 15:52:52 -0700 (PDT)

R. Coon

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From: Jim McCarty <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 15:49:45 -0500

> around here I thought I'd better get it.

My experience with Vulcans hasn't been very good. They tend to chip on 
the face pretty bad and don't seem very lively. My brother has one as 
his "spare" anvil and he likes it pretty much. My biggest complaint 
with them is the stubby horn. I like a hron that is more round, like a 
Peter Wright.
-- 
Jim McCarty
Father Helias Forge
Taos, MO
Editor Rural Missouri Magazine
Newsletter editor, Blacksmiths Association of Missouri

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