I have a pic of my first forge and anvil setup if you want to see. You might try bolting the track sections to the Ibeam with silicone between to deaden the sound. When you're done, you can move over to the steel plate to make sure your blade is flat and straight. He felt in anvil thicknesses 4140 would not harden enough.

I have forged 2 42lb stake anvils from 4340 and they were around 50rc as forged. I have a similar setup with a railroad track plate on a stake because my anvil is quite swaybacked.

(Railroad rail track doesn’t count.) How to Harden Steel.

4340 however would harden deeply enough in the heavier sections. It had great rebound this way and it was very quiet once I secured it with lag bolts and a thin layer of caulk to rest on.

Making anvils from Rail Road Rail : Anvil Making articles on anvilfire.com My version.

What steel to use for casting an anvil ... my anvil is a section of railroad track. A: A good craftsman could make the same blade with either a good anvil or a piece of junk steel.

This video shows the steps it takes to turn a piece of railroad track into a functional Anvil by using basic tools. I second or third the noisy part, I worked some on a railroad track anvil and oh my God was it loud!!!!
I recall way back in the ’60s, while travelling to Cozumel with my parents, we went over to the ruins at Chichen Itza. My first anvil was a railroad track Use it as a post anvil and it is great. 0 likes. Also, don’t forget to mark your anvil for weight and date of manufacture. Anyway the guy has a great writeup on how to make an anvil out of a piece of railroad rail, including heat treating/hardening the anvil surface. Steel is a common durable alloy, and while most steel used in tools is already tough, you can harden it even more to prevent wear and tear. I had tried it laying like it lived in the wild and it sucked.. a lot.

Really it is a lot of work but you will get a really great anvil and there aren’t too many people who can honestly say they have made a real anvil. Making a Railroad Track Anvil. If youre thinking of setting up your own blacksmith operation, youre going to need an anvil.


0 likes. Hope someone gets something out of one of these books and reports back with the finished anvil. If I had to use it again, I would get a tall stump and lay down a tube of silicone spread over the area and set the railroad track on that!! Welded with EutecTrode 690X. Some anvil restorers literally mill the entire original face off to start fresh.

Find another pice of metal and run a file on it if it scratchs then you can mill it with the right feed ,speed and depth of cut {DOC} RR track comes new very hard then gets work hardend by use .

To harden, .60-.80 carbon steel should be heated up to 1450-1550 degrees Fahrenheit, then quenched. This particular anvil was made from a piece of rusty railroad track found in a junkyard. Using Anvils Upcycled From Railroad Tracks.

You'll be able to do all your shaping and hard-hammering work on the railroad track. Now, some folks on the anvilfire forums stated that anvil faces are generally .60 to .80 carbon steel.

Making a Railroad Track Anvil.

Railroad track is way to hard to mill on a small machine.Probably too hard for a large machine also. My trademark is the Norse Rune or tir. The 90° and 45° for the points were cut with the band-saw, the longer cuts were made with a plasma cutter and an angle grinder. It was applied with a MIG.

Available in either cast iron or steel, a piece of train rail can be an inexpensive addition to your shop. I never got around to it, and probably never will.

would anybody know what its made of and how hard it is?