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An anvil-stake with a 34 inch leg similar to a leg vice.

-Cad

Very neat stake.

Main use I could see for it would be to put in a vise but let the foot touch the ground. No problems then with wreckign the screw on a machinists vise.

Brandr

Oversized war hammer.
No seriously, I have no idea about this one.
Can't really think of any real use for it in armouring but maybe some blacksmiths would know. Looks like you could strap it to the side of something or other and let the peg
rest in a hole.
Nope, no idea at all.

Dunno. For the price it's already at, you could probably find a regular post vice and a smaller stake.

The post vice would be much more versatile and shorter stakes less cumbersome.

But that's just me, I guess.

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Lochlainn
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That is a "T-Stake anvil". a very useful item when raising deep dishes in helm etc.
Have a look at how Eric Thing can take a single oval shaped disc and raise a helm out of it in one piece. He does Barbutes, sallets, bascinets, and simple conicals like this.
http://www.anvilfire.com/21centbs/armor/index.htm

Pretty neat I think.

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Anradan

I also saw an old trip hammer, with tongs, anvil, etc. for only $255. Plus a couple hundred packing and shipping for 3000 pounds or so from CT.

It looks like someone already tried using it as a war hammer. I think the base on it looks the most interesting. The very bottom looks hollow which means you'd need a good support on it to survive the torque from any hits not straight down the shaft. (pic 4)

It looks cool though

Anradan - It is a T-stake but unlike most including Eric's. the T is much longer. Also this one seems much 'thinner' in that the top of the T stake doesn't extend very far from the stand.

Might just an optical illusion due to the way long leg making the other part look shorter.

Brandr hinn Rusli

Brandr,

You are right it is much "finer" than Erics. If you mounted it properly it would work fine I think. After you polish it up of course



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Anradan

It is a hoop makers anvil.

the stake allows you to forge-weld a hoop closed for making carriage wheel-rims and barell-hoops.

...at least that is what john (the smith I apprenticed to) used his for at the Cooperage in Bundeburg.

This tool would not be useful for raising and I cannot think of many uses for it in an armouring workshop like mine.
It is basically a 20kg anvil-on-a-stick (complete with pritchard holes). The stake gets anchoured in a stake-plate at ground level and you can move it around pretty easily.
I once noticed that the floors of an english carriage house were made of square plates of steel with square holes iin them that woudl allow stakes to get anchored in literally hundreds of places around the room.

So you can set up the portable repair gear up around the broken carriage rather then need to carry the carriiage to the workshop.
(not sure that is quite what those holes were for, but it seems likely)

Sasha