#DIY RAILROAD TRACK ANVIL PLAN FULL#

Which presents an interesting situation, a new person gets 'yelled at' for information they are just passing along from a bad source. We get many visitors to the site that have been told a lot of wrong info, i was one of them. I'm not trying to be mean, I just want to see less videos on youtube with what i've found personally to be misinformation, as there is a LOT of it out there. To put it plainly, you posted a cheap and dirty guide on a blacksmithing forum, which is bound to get negative attention. To speak frankly however, I'm curious what your intentions are long term for your youtube channel and blacksmithing in general. But, you did NOT grind out a perfect horn, so you didn't put an excess of time in. If you looked into making a railroad anvil you'd have seen many people saying not to do what you did. You clearly put in some time grinding and cutting, putting that same time into a vertically mounting piece of rail you could have done better.įor someone to make a railroad anvil like you did it tells me you didn't research outside of youtube, that flies quite well on youtube, but it will get you negative attention on this site. What I was saying specifically is that you could have done better with just a change of design, and then suggested a way to get more valuable info into your videos to separate you from a lot of the 'this railroad track anvil is all you need' videos, which are VERY abundant. On end i generally the preferred method and the method i used for my first anvil. From what i've read almost any large chunk of non-cast iron will beat out a track anvil that's laid down.

See here for a potentially new design if u want to make a 2nd anvil:Īnother good idea would be to mention the wide range of other anvil substitutes that can work as well or better than railroad track such as seen here. This to me is akin to asking someone how they like a certain car the day after they drive it off the lot.

#DIY RAILROAD TRACK ANVIL PLAN FULL#

Don't take this too hard, but youtube is full of 'DIY railroad track anvil' tutorials by a LOT of people who likely haven't even spent a year using one. All time that could have been spent making a far more usable tool. I'm sure that anvil took you quite some time, between the angled cuts and grinding for the 'horn' and cutting out the webbing underneath the anvil and making that hardy hole. The main gripe I have with this video is that it spreads the idea that track anvils such as yours are worthwhile.

Diy railroad track anvil plan