![]() I actually can live with a softer anvil - which I currently have. But regardless of how perfect my skill is, I cannot guarantee that I will never miss a single blow in my life. As to the "perfect your skill" thing, thank you for your suggestion. Because I do not want a missing blow to dent my anvil, I need the anvil harder than my hammer Ĥ. Because the material I am planning to work with is harder than hot steel, and because some hammers' faces are pre-patterned, I need a hardened hammer ģ. It is actually quite different from sword making Ģ. Many of you nicely give suggestions without really knowing what I really want to do and who I am. Now I feel I am obliged to clarify this.ġ. Gents, I initially tried to avoid answering this question, because the only purpose of this post is to ask whether someone here can help making an anvil for me. But it seems some replies start to become judgmental. Thomas Powers is probably one of the best people here to tell you what you need ( rather than what you think you want ) It is not the tools that do the work, it is the person using them, there are many on here who could do better work than you could with a large rock and a smaller one even if you had a mirror polished and diamond hard anvil and hammer. Sounds to me like you need a lot of hammer practice with an average hammer and a simple block of steel so you dont mess up a good anvil and hammer as well as your work with missed blows. I know nothing about Tsuba's but some people here will know and they are trying to help you Generally hammers are softer these days because makers dont want liability if they chip and someone is injured, the harder the hammer / anvil is the more likely it is to chip rather than deform but maybe you know more than swordsmiths over the centuries who have worked without modern steels,Īlso work hardened metal will be brittle compared to that worked hot or at least annealed when needed,Įven mild can fracture but I suppose you must be an expert as you are not asking the best way to do things but telling us how it has got to be. ![]()
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