How do you craft an anvil - Tools & Hardware - Others

You don't! for an anvil to be any good it should be made of carbon steel and be tempered. the process requires a very good workshop with some heavy kit and a group of people who know what they are at. Having said that an anvil is just something hard and big to bash on, go to your local scrap yard and get a big lump of steel off a digger or something and custom the shape to what you want, make sure it has a flat side to bash on and set it into somethin very solid. A post anvil is easiest, a very big old sledge hammer head set into a steel pipe and in a hole full of concrete is a very serviceable tool, but since you can buy an old anvil for less than £100 you could save a lot of work, the cheaper ones usually need the top re-grinding to flat, dont worry about it lkosing it's temper, a grinder will not heat it up enough.