Thread: Show me your knives

Not a knife, but part of a knife making kit ……… a new anvil.

Its a legendary Peter Wright. Markings are a bit hard to make out so I haven't been able to narrow down its date of manufacture yet, but its very lack of markings would suggest that it is an early manufacture, possibly 1830-1852 vintage. Weighs in at 333lb by the stamps (151kg). I am told that it came out of Flock House (the agricultural training centre).

In the process of making up a wooden block stand out of 100x200 timber on end, with a 40mm thick steel plate on top, left 'rustic flame cut'. The plate was a disc put out of a bigger plate to make a pipe flange and weighs 75kg. All up with the wooden block the assembly is knocking on 250kg!