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New 400lb anvil, $400, Brooks, AB

I don't know much about anvils, but cast iron would seems like not the best choice of material. Aren't most cast steel or ????
 
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Mcgyver said:
I don't know much about anvils, but cast iron would seems like not the best choice of material. Aren't most cast steel or ????
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Iron is generally too soft for doing honest work on, it dents and gets nicked up, which will transfer to the work. The older decent anvils, were wrought iron, with a steel plate forge-welded on the working face. Cast steel is pretty normal for a decent quality modern anvil.

Which would be a lot of why it's only worth (maybe) what the guy is asking.

While I was living in Edmonton, in the early 2k's, the local Blacksmith Guild had a run of cast steel anvils made. At that time, with essentially zero of a profit margin, the cost from the foundry was around $1400, for a 225 pound anvil... For perspective...
 
Saw these at a Richie brothers auction in the summer. Pallets of them and other stuff going price was around 150 each. Friend got one for 140.
 
Mcgyver said:
I don't know much about anvils, but cast iron would seems like not the best choice of material. Aren't most cast steel or ????
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I see many auction houses are now flooding the markets with these new cast iron anvils from China. My brother has a large one. Nothing more than a spot to beat on something and not for any type of blacksmithing.
 
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