Skeptical about a junkyard anvil, now I use it daily

Picked up a beat-up anvil from a scrap yard in Toledo for $40 last spring. The face had dings and the edges were rounded off, so I figured it was only good for a doorstop. Spent a weekend grinding the face flat and welding a hardie hole back in, and honestly it hits better than my buddy's new one that cost 10 times as much. The rebound is solid and it rings nice with a quiet touch. Anyone else rescued a rough anvil and had it surprise you?

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cora8631d ago

Not gonna lie, I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop with these junkyard finds. You welded a hardie hole back in and ground the face flat, which is basically a full restoration at that point. That's not a "surprise" so much as a lot of sweat equity you're not pricing into the $40. My buddy did the same with a beat-up anvil from a farm auction and he's still chasing a dead spot in the middle of the face that kills rebound no matter what he does. If yours rings clean and hits true, congrats, but I'd run a straight edge across that face again in six months before I call it a win.