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4:41 pm
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April 19, 2010
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For those of you into tradition in some form-I just scored a couple of Yew wood anvil blocks!! A local woodcutter had a firewood ad on Craiglist and said he had salvaged a Yew tree. I called him and he cut me two blocks 22" high by almost 20" in diameter. I know it won't improve my skills but having a Yew block under my anvil just makes me feel good.
8:09 pm
March 22, 2010
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Yew can't go wrong with those:running::bounce:
9:15 pm
March 18, 2010
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Oh, yew wood say that! Don't pine over it Gene, you can use anything fir that. Cedar stump I have under mine? Alder wood in the world won't help if your anvil is too small. No matter how much you spruce it up. Oak K?
“There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot,
but then there are others who, with the help of their art and their intelligence,
transform a yellow spot into the sun.” ~ Pablo Picasso ~
10:57 pm
March 24, 2010
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The punishment has begun!
Grip the cold end. Hit the hot end.
11:45 pm
March 18, 2010
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Hey! What's that supposed to mean?:furious:
“There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot,
but then there are others who, with the help of their art and their intelligence,
transform a yellow spot into the sun.” ~ Pablo Picasso ~
5:47 am
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April 19, 2010
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Sorry for the post. I genuinely thought someone else might be as attached to traditional yew wood as I.Tell me how to remove it and I will.....
5:15 pm
March 24, 2010
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Eric, Leave the posting up. MAny of us have a respect for traditions in blacksmithing. Your 'Post", both verbal and wooden, deserves more consideration. I personally have several wooden anvil supports. One is maple, with a spare as the bugs will make a home in it and it will need replacement some day. The BIG anvil is on salvaged dock timbers, smells intereresting when something hot is dropped on it. (fire prevention feature?) I live in the woods, so my choices are very traditional, what falls or gets cut down in the winter. The treated timber was free for the hauling. If I had a block of YEW it would be saved for turning. But in your case I'm sure it is being put to the proper use. If there are any mistakes here It's because I'm half blind in one eye and just had surgery on the other ( "good" eye is blind until the bandage comes off).
Grip the cold end. Hit the hot end.
2:59 am
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May 3, 2010
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I got a big (16" diameter) chunk of locust under my anvil. The tree was healthy and quite large, but a road crew cut it down and left it near my shop. A buddy and I burned up a chainsaw blade cutting that tree into chunks and it took both of us to lift the anvil block into the back of my truck. Smells like cow urine when you work it, but it's tough wood, and not unattractive--made some nice mallets, and I've turned smaller limbs on the wood lathe into some nice bowls, cups, & stuff.
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