Tool Talk
Blacksmith and Metal Working Forum => Blacksmith and Metalworking Forum => Topic started by: john k on September 27, 2016, 12:28:24 PM
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This is the anvil I use each year at a living history event. It has been in this former owners shop for at least 110 years. Weight is 170lbs. Hay Budden was one of the best. Got a Peter Wright at home about the same size.
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Wow, in the same shop for 110 years! That's a lot of history there.
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An old boy in NW Topeka had some anvils and vises and tongs for sale this weekend. He said he had guys in his yard with flashlights at 6:15 for a 7:00 sale.
They were all gone by the time I dropped by. I am not into the big iron, but like to see them. The tongs and hardie/hardy tools? were left behind.
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The important parts left behind? Then he didn't price his stuff high enough. A real blacksmith/metal pounder is always after hardy tools, and tongs. Can't ever have too many tongs. Speculators is what hit him, buy it to make a profit, no love for the tool at all. Bid against a few of them, asked what they were going to do with a 300lb. anvil, I will resell it for profit! Didn't slap him, but wanted to. Flippers, can't say enough bad about them.
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If you want what the flipper is bidding on, you need to remember that he is planning on paying a wholesale price in order to make a profit.
He may keep you from getting a great bargain, but outbidding him is not a bad thing if you are serious about being a buyer.