Do you have an Anvil?

[phrog]

Will do! I use .5 mm brass sheets and make brass rings from them for my segments. I take a sheet of brass approx. 6 X 10 inches, put it between two 1/2 in sheets of ply and screw the ply together. Then I drill holes to the size of the tubes on the pens. Next, I take unscrew the ply, take the brass out and it looks like an organized swiss cheese sheet. Then I take my shears and cut around the holes leaving about 1/4 in space. Of course this deforms the brass considerably!. This is why I need a small anvil - to flatten the deformed brass.


My "brass ring" use in pen segments can be seen here:

http://www.penturners.org/photos/ima...1_Best_pen.jpg

http://www.penturners.org/photos/ima...l_Bushings.jpg

Those look great, Hank. I may give that a try. Thanks.

[Cochese]

I've never had the need for one, or even the inkling.

But this post got me thinking about my great-grandfather and the fact he had an anvil in his little shop (shed). Had to have been at least thirty years old, but probably more like 50-60. He passed three years ago and this got me wondering what happened to the things he had there. He wasn't a woodworker at all, but a fisher and tinkerer and retired service station owner - back when you needed your car fixed you went to the same place you got your gas from.

I'll have to put an inquiry to my grandmother and see if that stuff got liquidated. It still pains me he got rid of one of my favorite cars I've ever personally driven (illegally, to boot), a 66 Coupe de Ville with power everything. Will have to see if I can track that down, too. Minivan? Who needs one, that could seat six.

[scmhogg]

You will have to try "shooting" your anvil.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhQ4dE_RGnQ

Steve

[Whaler]

Hank, I got a Lee valley catalog today and thought that this might be just the thing.
http://www.leevalley.com/US/wood/pag...,43465&p=69331

[leehljp]

Hank, I got a Lee valley catalog today and thought that this might be just the thing.
http://www.leevalley.com/US/wood/pag...,43465&p=69331

That is the one I finally decided on and ordered. Thanks!

[Bruce Cohen]

Used to, but I stopped making horse shoes years ago.