I'll have to see if I can find my old Foxfire (5?)book on metal working, gunmaking, etc. If I remember correctly it had info on making gun barrels hammering flat steel around a metal rod. Sounds like a good project for your anvil! :-) Start saving you urine, they use stale urine in making the gunpowder.
RogerN
OK, no more bathroom trips for me.
Could be worse. Roman laundry practice:
Soap was one of the few ideas my Northern European ancesters contributed to civilization:
Ave atque vale Jim Wilkins
What use would a smith have for an 0-1-8 (36 Lb?) anvil, and what degree of pounding or maximum hammer weight is reasonable? The top plate appears to be one piece and isn't very hard. I flycut most of the dings off before surface grinding it.
It's large enough for me, I build up freehand steel shapes by arc welding and don't have a safe / legal place to operate a forge.
Jim Wilkins
Neat series of books (Foxfire), especially like the earlier ones. I just took a quick look and number 5 is indeed the one with that info. There method of rifling was fascinating too.
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