On the entire KZreads, this is the best series of how a real anvil is made. You all are great and thank you much for sharing with the world! I appreciated the series.

@AusMetalCasting

3 жыл бұрын

Oh my! Wow! Thank you! What a compliment! We're making an aluminium self hardening head sledge hammer next (what we were cracking moulds with in the 3rd video). Stoked you enjoyed the series! Stay tuned

@davewardphotography

3 жыл бұрын

Subscribed... just waiting for the next awesome castings from down-under! A very beginner in blacksmithing, just love to watch and learn how things are made.

@thereddufus

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely. I'm a materials engineer that teaches, so I spend a fair bit of time scrolling the youtubes for the best illustrative clips/channels, and I haven't seen anything better. Thank you so much for getting this type of detail out there for the world to learn from. I would absolutely love to see a video with a more complex gating/riser setup, maybe one with a filter installed. With so much of this stuff you can read in a textbook that things like filters/exothermic sprues/keyed cores exist, but videos of them in use is really hard to find. The other thing off the top of my head would be to hear you talk through building whatever alloy you are making in the furnace. There are a ton of videos out there of people hucking stuff into whacking great pots of metal, but actually describing why each component goes in when would be fantastic. And my compliments Justin, the learning curve on trying to film molten metal or record sound in a foundry is just absurd, and the progress you have made in just 4 videos is fantastic. Can't wait to see the next one.

@DaveW74TVN

2 жыл бұрын

Why are you me? ;)

@syrea793

Жыл бұрын

@@thereddufus his anvil recipe is a closely guarded secret! On a serious note: his anvils are - metallurgically speaking - quite distinct from the mass produced pig iron nightmares China ships in their thousands. If you give your recipe on KZread, they WILL steal it, then claim they're making 'Aus-standard' anvils for half the price and it detracts from Bob and Jamie's business niche.

Get that young man on the grinder some PPE. A proper dust mask to save his lungs! Nice video!

@rareaussie6960

3 жыл бұрын

I have to agree with you about the masks I worked at the steal works never wore any mask now in dying from industrial lung disease 🦠 life isn’t long enough if to save your life costs you $1.50 please guys please safe 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻

@yota4004

3 жыл бұрын

@@rareaussie6960 as an old fella who has lung disease from a lifetime of grinding, sanding and painting please where a dust filter.

@roddypryce454

3 жыл бұрын

Face mask, goggles, ear defenders and gloves.

@markfryer9880

3 жыл бұрын

@@roddypryce454 Or invest in one of those all in one face mask respirators that supply you with clean air over the top of your head.

@kioshiro482

3 жыл бұрын

Nah... f*ck em.

Nice Anvil, glad to see companies still build quality products and take pride in there workmanship 👍👍

50 years ago I would have given anything for one of yours. Much respect to all of you. But, I no longer need an anvil. And if I had the money now, I would not buy one from you. Why? Because an anvil is a tool. Your anvils are excellent, beautiful, functional tools. I would not disrespect the product or work you put into it, just to own it or show it to people. If I had the money, I might buy one as a gift, if I knew a person who WOULD use it. Sadly I don't. Hats off to you folks, and an excellent video.

As someone who works in an iron foundry it brings me joy to see a quality demonstration of the process we call work

@AusMetalCasting

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Dylan. I appreciate that

This series was a ton of fun to watch. Thanks for showing us how you do it!

@AusMetalCasting

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

You Men (capital M) are a testament to Australia & foundry workers everywhere. Craft, artifice & technical expertise like this deserve more than you charge, whatever that may be.

@AusMetalCasting

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Marco

As a guy who has always been fascinated by the act of creation, this was a lot of fun to watch. Thank you for the in depth look.

@AusMetalCasting

3 жыл бұрын

Our pleasure!

You blokes are what Australian manufacturing is all about...really you people are the Australians of the year keeping old art alive...these certainly showing all Australians what they should be buying...how good are you. Just so great in showing what you do...please keep these videos coming because they are great. Glad you started! More Aussie manufacturers should be showcasing the Australian Manufacturing Expertise!

Drinking beer while working. I love it. I'm moving to Australia

I have wanted one since my late teens. Currently 68 and still wanting/waiting.

@AusMetalCasting

3 жыл бұрын

No better time to get one then...

Good to see small shops keeping industrys like this going. I have a 25kg Anvil with a Kangaroo on it, made by a much larger foundry obviously. but there's still a decent demand and the price is high enough for 100kg anvils there is definitely still a reasonable market for the little guys. If the quality is good you can charge more too.

Humans will come and go on this planet, but what you created will last forever! Very well done!

Fills my heart to see craftsmanship and hard work creating such quality. Having fun while passing the skill on is a strong backbone that cannot be appreciated by the many who haven’t broken a sweat. Cheers and thank you.

If I was in the market for an anvil I would purchase from this guy Australian made Australian supported.

Absolutely fantastic work guys, it's great to see an Aussie made product still. It makes me sad when you think how many old anvils ended up being sent overseas as scrap metal, just about every farm or metal shop had them in years gone by.

You blokes should be wearing a respirator when grinding. Try it for a day and see how black the filters get, once you do you’ll never go back. The anvil comes out a beauty, love it.

@AusMetalCasting

3 жыл бұрын

Definitely

Absolutely brilliant and outstanding your anvils look stunning, a quality product thanks guys ❤

Know that's quality work thanks for sharing

I did not expect to watch through the whole process, but the KZread algorithm offered me a very good and interesting story. Thanks for sharing your experience with us. I enjoyed the narration, such videos are pleasant to see. No bullshit, no hype, no drama, just pure skill and to the point comments. Hats off to you all!

Great Aussie workmanship !!

Greetings from the Great White North! Really enjoyed the build series on the 97 kg anvil. Cheers!

@AusMetalCasting

3 жыл бұрын

Greetings friend! Sunny Sydney says hello! Thanks for your support

That is "Heavy Duty" work Guys. "Cheers".

at last something made in Australia! Cheers

@AusMetalCasting

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks John!

@mikelhall

3 жыл бұрын

Lot's of good things made in Australia. Some of the prettiest girls are Australian made. :)

I worked in a steel foundry here in Fort Worth, Texas for 29 years. We made Blacksmith and Farrier anvils from 65 to 500 lbs, and other castings up to 25,000lbs. The anvils were mostly AISI 8630, normalized, quenched and tempered. I still have a JHM Basic 65# anvil. Our company logo was a horseshoe. It's interesting to see the difference in how different foundries work. We were required to wear helmets, safety glasses and steel toed boots with metatarsal guards. Molders, core makers, welders and grinders all had to wear respirators as well. We shutdown in 2003 after 97 years at the same location.

So glad you made this series of anvil making vids. Something I've always been curious about. I'd love to own one. Keep up the great work boys 👍

Now that is a beautiful chunk of steel.

Looking the goods my great uncle was the Cobden blacksmith, farrier, wheelwright and undertaker back in the day and I was all ways to be found in the forge watching and learning now seeing a anvil made was great. Thank you Chris

@LOSS444

2 жыл бұрын

That'd have to be old Bill Roberts wouldn't it? He had the blacksmiths opposite Rankins (?) milkbar back in the late 70's-early 80's and Hank Gerbes was the local copper. And given your last name is Slevin I'm guessing you'd be Annies brother? And another connection, I was mates with Malcolm Roberts son Jamie.

Nice work good Australian made love it .👍👍👍👍👍

The 100Kg anvil is a beaut! I badly want one in my living room - I'm sure my wife would love it too! =) Seriously though, that is one awesome job you guys did on that anvil.

If I ever win the lottery, I'll take a holiday over there in Aus, to watch my own anvil being made. I'll never use it for it's intended purpose; I just love it's endearing chunkiness. When I kick the bucket, it would be given to someone who would give it good use, and hopefully last for hundreds of years.

God damn that flycutter is being pushed to the max with how hard the anvil is! What a beast.

@AusMetalCasting

3 жыл бұрын

Tore up so many blades

@joshschneider9766

3 жыл бұрын

@@AusMetalCasting whatever you are alloying out with sure did the trick indeed. would it be beneficial to fabricate a cutter with inserts that could do it all in one pass?

@markcassemeyer2649

3 жыл бұрын

@@AusMetalCasting should have used ceramic inserts instead of carbide

@hardrider5905

2 жыл бұрын

I was blown away seeing red sparks coming off a steel cutter.

@tylerkrug7719

2 жыл бұрын

@@markcassemeyer2649 that's what Bob said too

Great job fellas, so good to see something made in Australia. If they are anything like my 1947 John Brooks anvil made here, they'll be tops.

Quality product made by Quality guys , Cheers .

WOW! Great looking anvil

Loved watching this. Thanks for sharing.

I noticed that their arms are scarred from burns and fingers beat up. They take pride in what they do. A day trader would look down his nose at these men but they do have the honor, these metal workers do. Good job.

Fantastic to see good people doing quality workmanship & taking pride in an absolutely beautiful product.

When Finnish manufacturer Lokomo made anvils, they didn't grind the back flat, but they grinded it slightly convex with radius of 25 meters. They achieved this before CNC-machines by having a grinding machine on the end of 25 meters long boom pivoted from the other end. That slight convexity allowed better streching of the steel when forging.

@AusMetalCasting

3 жыл бұрын

That's cool!

I was searching a long time ago for metal casting Anvils and today I finally got to watch the full process. Cheers guys. That thing is a beast.

@AusMetalCasting

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!

Beautiful work guys!!! Best shows for making anvils👍👍👍👍👍

@AusMetalCasting

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Anvils are only the beginning...

Great video, 1st class craftsmanship, Great subject .

THIS QUALITY!!! I see porosity and inclutions Bub!

GUT DAMN, these are probably one of the manliest men to have ever men. I have Big respect for what you do

Very beautiful anvil and you should be proud of doing a real anvil that will last forever and don’t tell your secret to other people you have the right receipt for quality and you will sell them like hot cakes I really like the colour that looks great 👍

THE TOUGHEST MACHINING I EVER DID WAS RAILROAD LOCOMOTIVE WHEELS!! EVEN TOUGHER WAS WHEN THEY HAD SLID FLAT SPOTS! USED A STANRAY IN FLOOR WHEEL TURNING MACHINE! THE CUTTER SPINDLE HELD 120 ROUND CARBIDE INSERTS! NICE JOB, ENJOYED THIS VIEW OF STEEL CASTING! KEEP THEM ROLLING BROTHERS!! 👍👍

Great work Fellas, awesome to see Aussie manufacture still going strong & showing up the imports. I too work for an Australian manufacturer & feel damn proud for it!

Thats a thing of beauty!

good man and. Good job

I watched the entire anvil series and I must say I'm impressed. You are producing a world class quality anvil for sure. Thanks for sharing from Canada.

Thanks for showing how you cast an anvil. I like that you take the time to finish then, thanks jamie. I like the idea of the ears and bolt holes you do with them. Thanks again.

Foundrymen are a special breed or at least I think so.

Brilliantly thank you old dave

nicely done guys. that's a good looking anvil. I love the bar bender stubs on the sides. right on

Id love to see a demo of someone tapping the anvil or dropping ball bearing on it to see the bounce. Itll prlly look like a superball lol

@AusMetalCasting

3 жыл бұрын

We'll see what we can do

I love your craftsmanship! I would like to recommend if the young man that is machining your flats. If he has a surface grinder he may want to go that route. It would save him on his cutters. He could probably put a couple on at a time too. That would speed up the process too.

@AusMetalCasting

3 жыл бұрын

Cheers

Great work folks!

Please do more videos like this I love them

@AusMetalCasting

3 жыл бұрын

Will do!

A beautiful product, good luck with your business 😃👌👌👌👏👏👏❤️❤️

awesome anvil and awesome craftmanship!

Thanks for sharing the process!

Well there you go, didn't know that anvils were still made in oz Great to see 👍👍👍👍

Very nice job guys, excellent 👏 👍 , congrats.

Really fascinating watching this little series of videos and how the whole process of making an anvil is done from start to finish! Thanks for this - Super Fascinating - Nicely Done!!

Really nice work, love to watch stuff being made well. That little bugger’s going to be ringing away for a long, long time, thanks for sharing.

@AusMetalCasting

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed the videos

very impressive, i wish everyone took pride in their work the way that you do.

When you get these to the states...sign me up.

@AusMetalCasting

3 жыл бұрын

Will do

@CornPop.

3 жыл бұрын

👍🏼😍

I love that you put so much heart and soul into casting such gorgeous pieces, and then hit them with a rattle can. :D Seriously, that's 100% my kind of production, and I'd buy one of these anvils in a heartbeat if I found one in the US. These videos are great! Looking forward to seeing more!

@AusMetalCasting

3 жыл бұрын

You are so welcome!

The quality and workmanship I've seen here is miles ahead of the rest ,that's what I call an anvil, especially the quality of the steel

Thanks for sharing!

Absolute class workmanship, from Great friendly craftsmen, fantastic product, thoroughly enjoyed watching[ as an amateur foundryman/machinist 60 yrs a workshop] I can appreciate your talents thanks for the video [note to self must paint my 2 John Brookes anvils hammertone blue!!. Graham.

great video series thanks! Looks like Bob can put away some beers.... :)

Those are some beautiful anvils! I love the design! ❤ 👍

@AusMetalCasting

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

absolutely supa!!!

Thanks for sharing.

I would love to get my hands on one of them in the rough, straight out of the flask!!!!

It’s awesome to watch guys who are still doing old school trades as then we will never loose that skill so well done guys and thanks for making the videos for us to watch and learn. If someone is doing restoration work on old machinery and needs a part cast can he send you guys a diagram with sizes, dimensions and other details so you can cast it? Thanks again

I really loved watching you guys make that anvil. I've often wondered what it would look like to make one of those and thanks to you guys I now know what it takes to make one. It looks like a lot of work but it also looks like it would be fun to do it just the same. Keep up the good work guys!!!!!

I want a set of 20 for dinner parties. Imagine how amazing I would look serving little Amuse Bouchées on these.

@jackbarrie6007

2 жыл бұрын

You need a brain too🥴🥴💯🇦🇺

Beautiful

I loved watching these videos. I have a long history of working with metal but never on an anvil. I am past it now but that doesn't mean I have lost my love for metalwork.

Had you think to hire a “lost time” instructor? The time lost from one point to another one can be shortened to keep production more efficient, and secure, and thanks for accept suggestions, God bless the hard working people, beautiful work

I'm ready for more videos men. Nice work.

Thanks for the video. Nice to see someone put a Quality piece and quality workmanship. Someone who truly puts pride in their work. The end results show it. Nice to see a young person carrying on the tradition.

Nice . A job well done

Great videos.. I look forward to seeing more..

Might I suggest a jig system to hold the anvils during grinding? It would save a lot of effort repositioning the anvils to grind all of the various surfaces. You could build the jig into a frame for the forks on the forklift, keeping your use case the same if you want to. A first pass design would use two pairs of stacked beams with welded spacers (~10 cm /4 in) separating the pair of beams by to provide space for the forks to get inside the structure to lift it. A thick steel pipe segment (~0.5 m / 18 in long minimum, longer is better to a point) with the same OD as the spacers gets welded into the center of the two pairs of stacked beams perpindicular to the beams so that they form a capital H when looked at from above. The pipe is the rotational axis for the anvils, so it will need to have a couple of heavy duty bearings pressed into the ends. A smaller steel pipe or heavy duty rod (larger diameter is better, thick walled pipe is fine) a few centimeters longer than the pipe mounted bearings will mount the platform the anvil connects to. It is important that the anvil mounting plate is offset from the smaller pipe axis of rotation. You want the platform to be offset enough to bring the anvil's center of gravity in line with the center of rotation so that the anvil will rotate freely and not just spin to one side (probably upside down). A clamping or gearing system mounted on the smaller pipe would let you lock it in place for grinding at any angle desired and the forklift would let you raise/lower it and tilt as desired. Way better ergonomics and likely faster too.

@AusMetalCasting

3 жыл бұрын

This is brilliant!

@markfryer9880

3 жыл бұрын

Something similar to the car cradles Panel Beaters use when working on a car body.

Have really enjoyed this series, many thanks for taking the time and effort to step through the process.

Need to add the ring test to the video. Strike the anvil with a steel hammer and you should hear a nice ring.

beautiful molds

Excellent work man.

Very nicely done guys love seeing folks still putting in work to make great products 👍👍👍

I really enjoyed the videos. I honestly had no idea so much work goes into making a anvil but you blokes know you're business and your finished product is true artwork. Best wishes and thankyou.

congratulations ,i admire your work.

Y’all are doing a fantastic fascinating job

Amazing

Very nice!

Thanks, Bob and Jamie for showing the anvil making process. My Grandad who I was close to was a foundryman from a young age used to talk about what he used to do. It is great to see the process in such detail from start to finish. Looking forward to more videos from you.

now, if only I could afford one

thank you guys, that was so cool to watch all three videos one after another. SO much hard work and process goes into making a good quality aussie product.