Stake anvil and stand

My first stake anvil. Started at a class down at tunnell mill taught by Thomas Latane. Finished something like 2 years after I stared it (took me that long to make all the tools I didn't have to finish forging it). Stake anvil is 11 pieces forge welded together. Stand was one piece of plate forged to shape. Top is a piece of truck leaf spring, the rest are mild steel pieces. This is the piece that will be on display at www.metalmuseum.org/upcoming.h… during the master metalsmith show of Thomas Latane's where it will be a piece from someone he has influenced. It took me approximately 16 days of 8 to 12 hours from start to finish. This did not include the days spent making tools or working on the design or execution, just on the actual making of the piece. I have already gotten to use it some and when it comes back it will be a part of my tools. The stand is only for display as I felt it needed a way to be displayed properly when at the museum. When in use it will either be in the hardy hole/swedgeblock/stake plate or in a stump. All work was done with hand tools. Perifin wax was used on the anvil. Bees wax on the stand. Derrick Phillips struck for the forging of the anvil.


If you would like to see in progress pictures they are here.
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Some of them show the detail a bit better than this picture does.