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YES!!!!! Thanks for solving my mystery!

Hope all are having a good weekend! I went to a garage sale on Friday and picked up these double-ended tapered bits for a five dollar bill. My intent is to use them as drifts and hardy tools for my anvils. They will skate a file with just the slightest bit of bite with a fine single-cut, so...

Looks GREAT!!! Your Vulcan should have a steel top plate...do you know how much of it you were able to leave intact?

This is a personal preference kind of thing. I would flatten completely, then do varying degrees of rounding of the edges to allow for shaping forged pieces. I would also leave a small amount of crisp edge...this just gives flexibility of the ASO.

Can't ID the maker, but, generically, it is a bridge anvil.

Yeah, I lucked into that Hay Budden. Was owned by a gentleman who was one of the volunteer smiths at the Fort Vancouver smithy for 12 years. He just got too old to swing a hammer. The stand under the JHM is one I built from 4x4s, all-thread, nuts and washers. It's a pain in the **** to drill the...

My pair of boat anchors......JHM Shaper and a century-old Hay Budden. -Mark

Congrats! When I owned one of these, I woulda bought THIS one just to have such a minty fresh table! Would own it to this day if I hadn't found an upgrade that I couldn't pass up. Enjoy! -Mark