A blacksmith’s anvil is a large block ... You will sometimes see anvils with different shapes, perhaps with protrusions on their sides or with a horn at each end, these will either be of an ...

Here is where you shape parts. Lay metal across the ... The pritchel hole in the anvil enables the blacksmith or farrier to drive the pritchel through without damaging the anvil in the process.

PORT TOWNSEND — After working as a blacksmith most of his life, Jim Garrett found it natural to forge ahead as an anvil manufacturer in 2007. After all, he pounds out and shapes metal for a living ...

In his smithy workshop are two anvils, one of which was the inspiration ... A dagger found in Egypt, dating to 1350 BCE, shows evidence that an early blacksmith had heated and hammered it into shape.