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Hey /diy/, first time posting here and I have a blacksmithing question.
I'm setting up a backyard forge and I've found a thick tool steel plate at the junkyard to use as am anvil (hopefully). Problem: it's around 20lbs, so very much on the light side. How do I set it up so that it doesn't bounce or shift as I hammer away? Drilling through it for bolts would be a pain in the ass, but feasible, I'm just asking if tere are any alternatives (like clamping it down tightly with wooden blocks or setting it in a bigass block of clay to absorb vibration).
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>>1227546
Best bet is to weld some chain to the sides of it and then mount it on a tree stump, 20lb though you could also strap it into some 2x4's and stick it on a saw horse or something
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Pour out a cylinder of concrete and get a masonry chisel and chunk out the space for the plate to sit in it. Just a half in and half out. For shits and gigs, buy a neodymium magnet and put it in the concrete below the steel plate and sink it in only the face shows and lay the plate on top of it
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>>1227606
strapping it into 2x4s was one of my original ideas, something that I would mount on a stump or on a section of an old wooden beam (ancient house, so we have a ton of those lying around). Alternatively, I thought of something like pic related
>>1227616
wouldn't a magnet react poorly to repeated shocks? Same in regards to concrete, I wouldn't trust it to hold for very long under frequent hammer strikes, even with a steel plate as a buffer. Plus, it dowsn't feel like it would reduce the ringing of the steel, which I hear can be deafening.
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>>1227546
even blacksmiths have machine tools these days
>>1227624
get a chainsaw and find a thick tree, cut a stump to use as a worktable (a big tree)
>>1227616
pouring a concrete worktable sounds like a good idea too
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>>1227624
Magnet on the anvil really knocks down the noise, doesn't have to be anything fancy. Just an old car speaker magnet seems to work fine
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