Budget Big Anvil! I 132 lb Acciao Anvil I VEVOR ANVIL

[@AtholIronworks]

You can tell you're having fun making the video and it comes through watching it. 👍👍

[@eli-barrrunforge5823]

I always do😁 thanks Will! God bless!

[@SchysCraftCo.]

Awesome video as always. Can't wait to see more videos. Keep up the great craftsmanship and hard work my friend. Forge on. Fab on. Weld on. Keep making. God bless.

[@lelandhawk6392]

I have them both. I started with the 66#. I got the 132# for when I build my shop.

[@BarrRunForge]

Fantastic, Leland! We are excited.

[@metalmanproductions9267]

Glad to see the knife hasn't broken yet, that is some awesome packaging. I would interested in one of those. Thanks for the review.

[@BarrRunForge]

No sir. We use it a lot. We are pretty pleased with both of them, so far.

[@robertlonis9350]

Congratulations on the new toy Eli ! can’t wait to see the creations that spawn from it !

[@eli-barrrunforge5823]

Thank you sir! You’ll have to try it out in a couple months!

[@1958davidmemes]

I wish I had an anvil that nice

[@shadetreeforge]

Eli, at least your anvil horn isn't shaped like a duckbill platypus! I have an old Russian import from harbor freight. Dates back to 2005 bought on clearance for $100 weighs 110lb? Because they quit importing them! A word to the wise, if you can when anvil shopping in person take a 1" ball bearing if you got one and test drop it and select the one with the best rebound. Or search out reviews and go from there.

[@Vikingwerk]

The horns on these accaio/vevor/whatever anvils are a complete lottery. I got the 66lb one, and the horn was like the toe of a boot, wide and flat-ish. I’ve tuned it up a bit by grinding on it, but I think they have problems with the tip of the horn in their castings, and just grind off defects and paint em and send em, so some horns are nice, some are weird.

[@melgross]

Ah, don’t use a 1” bearing. Use a 1/2” bearing. I’ve got testers, and none use a bearing bigger than 1/2”. Some 3/8”. 1” will dent any anvil surface, and that’s not the point of the test.

[@rogercaldwell7432]

I've been using the 110lb (50kg) for over a year now. Graduated up from the HF cast iron. I love it! No problems at all. And, I did just like you. Wired it down, flap wheeled it, and painted it flat black. Great video, Eli. Bless you!

[@eli-barrrunforge5823]

Good stuff, thanks Roger! God bless!

[@melgross]

I recent,y bought the black 132 lb model. A few bucks more, but it’s harder, between 55-57 RC according to my tests. Other than the Prichel hole, these are pretty good deals. The best price I’ve found for a “professional” anvil equivalent is around $1,000. At a quarter of the price, these are superb. I’d say the more expensive ones are a bit better. Yes, you have to spend some time to “perfect” it, but so what, that’s what we do anyway. The horn is of the European form, so good or bad depending on where you’re from, or what you do. By the way, you’ll se a lot of older vises with the horn tip mangled. That’s because no one wants a sharp horn tip. It’s not very useful, and when you’re carrying something in a tight shop, you get yourself mangled every time you hit into it. So blacksmiths take a hammer and pound on the tip until they blunt it.

[@BarrRunForge]

Thanks for the insight, that’s interesting. So far the acciaio anvils have worked well for us too. Thanks and God Bless!

[@SonoraSlinger]

😂😂 that intro slaps bro. I have the 66# accaio. I like it. It does what i need.

[@xxskippernate409xx6]

Hey, Eli! Great video, acciaio is Italian for "steel", and the company is...Italian. I look forward to getting this anvil eventually, I already have the 66lb.

[@Vikingwerk]

Now they need to come out with a swage block I can afford. Edit: Holy smokes someone did. 66lb swage blocks on Amazon now for $300. Guess I know what I’m getting myself for valentines day!

[@BarrRunForge]

Check out Holland Anvil. The one on Amazon are based on their design. www.hollandanvil.com/product-page/65lb-swage-block

[@waveman0]

for the price they are well worth the money, I have the 20kg version and am looking at the HRC 55/60kg.

[@chewyakarieckenicholas6049]

I have the 22lb vevor anvil and I have not had any problems with it yet but I do plan to buy one of those bigger ones at some point in the near future

[@BarrRunForge]

We have had the same experience with both the 66 lb and the 132 lb. Thank you for watching.

[@mattwyeth3156]

When dose anvil size start to work against the blacksmith and causes issues so if the anvil is to big and to small for the work that you want to achieve

[@robertboyer5498]

I’m hoping to see someone weld up that pritchel hole, put a shelf in its place, and then re-drill a pritchel hole behind the hardy hole. Nobody seems to want to put that much work into it though. 😂

[@BarrRunForge]

That would be handy but take a fair amount of work for sure. God bless!

[@ericsimoneau4818]

Pritchel hole placement is completly useless on these anvils. I dont know why they put them there.

[@robertboyer5498]

@@ericsimoneau4818 I don’t get it either. I thought it was modeled on German anvils, but I’m not sure how those are laid out.

[@ericsimoneau4818]

@@robertboyer5498 german anvils have both the hardy and pritchel holes on the flat parts of the face. No holes on the horn.

[@edwardgiovannelli5191]

In my area, 150lb rusted, chipped, clapped out pieces of garbage are going to over a THOUSAND dollars. They're unusable. So when I saw the black 132lb accacio on sale for 235 free shipping, I pounced on it. Now I've had it for about a year, and I'm really happy with it, Yeah the pritchell hole is a complete write off, and yeah, you have to spend some time cleaning it up, but half an hour later I had a beautiful anvil that will last far longer than I will. So unless you're willing to spend five times more to get a lump of cast iron in far worse shape to get into this hobby, these things are the way to go.

[@jameslydon3314]

I haven't seen any reviews of the black acciaio that's supposed to be harder than the blue?

[@BarrRunForge]

They’re all made by the same company so there shouldn’t be variation in hardness. God bless!

[@jameslydon3314]

@@BarrRunForge The website says the blue is 50 HRC and the black is 55 HRC.

[@9Antonian]

This anvil design is a copy of old southwestern European designs, for whatever reason the pritchell hole ended up in that area way back when-and of course the Chinese being masters of duplication ran with it.

[@BilljCook]

My 132 came in cardboard

[@Rob-vx2fb]

For give me 😂

[@heavyhittersgaming3759]

The pritchel hole is so horribly located.

[@BarrRunForge]

Agreed

[@meFatuations]

That anvil looks like a cheap junky product. Seriously poor quality. Nice to see how sloppy manufacturing can be. It puts higher quality anvils in perspective. I do appreciate the video.