Hand Carving a Stone Anvil Base

[@mountainviews5025]

Amazing little shop people always ask me why I take so long to do things in my work area my answer is because this is where I will spend most of my life so I want it to be extremely comfortable and beautiful and you have done that you will definitely enjoy this for years and years and years thank you for sharing with us thumbs up my friend

[@freepress8451]

No noise of power tools, your skill with the tools is very satisfying to watch

[@mandyleeson1]

I did not think I would ever see beauty in an anvil. It's so good to be proved wrong. Thanks.

[@ferd.6779]

Well mr. Chickadee you did a very fine job again! Thanks for sharing.

[@msquared6324]

That's amazing work, as usual. Next assignment is take the other half of that sandstone block and carve a grindstone!

[@brockshields9336]

The white stone, black anvil...... beautiful contrast. Functional Beauty.

[@vincentthomas495]

Another great illustration from Mr. Chickadee.Man he sure has the patience of Jobe

[@ronmack1767]

Enjoyed the video Josh. As you said that base is much more stable than a wood base and will last. Thanks for taking the time to produce the video.Y'all take care and God bless.

[@wazzyman2875]

Outstanding Brother ! There is so many people that you Inspired !! I am one of them. Simplified and stay Motivated. Your Dream will live on !! Peace Bro !!

[@BillB23]

That sandstone seems to work relatively easily. All it takes is a couple tools, patience, determination, and a bit more determination. Thanks, Mr. Chickadee. Best wishes to the Mrs. and assorted felines.

[@genegoodman5233]

At 4:15 the sound of hitting the little wedges changed, 30 seconds later we could see the crack. Good work Mr Chick, I love the precise nature of your work. Stay safe

[@robertlassiter5808]

When I watch these videos I completely unwind and relax. A very pleasant surprise to see a new vid today. Job well done. Simper Fi from an old Air Dale.

[@joebuckley9940]

Again, yet another display of simplistic utilitarian craftsmanship, undoubtedly it will garner praise and admiration for generations. Thank you for saving and sharing these examples of time tested authentic otherwise forgotten mastering form meeting function.

[@Banjo-lm2wl]

Seriously the the most creative man I've ever seen all your work is perfection and stunning.. wow you always amaze me. Hope your family is well sending greetings from Australia ❤️

[@martyclack8782]

You make it look easy. One craftman to another you are very skilled craftman.

[@thomasarussellsr]

Move stones like an Egyptian. Great looking stand that should hold up well past your lifetime, for sure. Nice work, sir.

[@daveyjoweaver5183]

I have a piece of red sand stone just for this purpose. Since I lent my anvil years back and the person left with it, now I need an anvil. Yours is quite a beauty. I really like that slanted side. I'm sure that can come in very handy for some projects. Thanks Most Kindly. And Thanks for putting your Spirit in everything you do. This is truly an aspect of creativity that is rarely practiced today. Things with this kind of Spirit are true creation and connection with self and the Cosmos and with eachother. Your wife also displays this as well. Thanks Again and Blessings to You and your Family! Dogs and Cats included indeed! DaveyJO in Pa.

[@veteranironoutdoors8320]

Excellent use of the mounting hole! Most people don’t know it exists!

[@jackpshannonsr.1838]

I for one did NOTT know this. See! You can teach old men new things..

[@tnmonty501]

For some reason this brings back memories of spending a whole day chipping away at limestone to dig a fox hole on a hill side at Ft. Campbell

[@geraudgazal5360]

Thanks for sharing your hard work, your fundamental methods : you've got golden hands.

[@E.lectricityNorth]

Thank you for this, and for all that you do and share with us. What a steady hand you have, with all manner of tools and equipment. The anvil base, on its own stands proudly as a work of art. What completes it is the addition of the stunning anvil, (crazy viking helm?) married so skillfully to its foundation that the entire assembly becomes far more than the sum of its parts. Can't wait to hear it being hammered on. You are an inspiration.

[@philippedegroote1619]

Toujours une patience incomparable dans la réalisation des projets, ce qui engendre un travail bien fait et d'une excellente qualité technique et esthétique. Bravo et merci M. Chickadee.

[@131dyana]

Your enginuity astounds me. Thanks for sharing.

[@Avendora]

Nice Church Window Anvil there! She's a beaut!

[@MedievalTrebuchet]

I was wondering how you were going to move the stone to the shop and put the anvil on top of it, but then you proceeded to do both in the coolest way possible with all the right tools and minimal exertion. Excellent job! Love the tackle blocks.

[@HiltsyAdventure]

Haven't seen a Church Window with a horn, that anvil is beautiful and looks great on that stand!

[@Shambala_G]

I think I have just found my favourite KZbin channel 👍

[@theatomizer3684]

The subtitles are very helpful, thanks for adding them in the new videos.

[@montedaestrada3563]

Very lucky to have such well cut blocks of stone at hand.

[@michael_k_aus_S]

For me as a craftsman it is so enjoyable to watch your videos. And while I learned only one masterprofession, you are about to gain master knowledge and skills in a whole bunch of professions! My respect, Mr. Chickadee 👍

[@advforops]

Awh proper planning leads to proper performance. Beautiful work!

[@idefyu23]

Well I'm glad that subtitles were available lol. Great work as always.

[@guylabesseuille2716]

Patience et minutie. Pas besoin de discours, les images suffisent. Très bien filmé et très agréable à regarder. Bravo et merci pour le partage.

[@leiflundquist468]

He is realy a handy man. He had a very soft stone, not like our swedish granit.

[@IanSlatas]

I was thinking the same thing. Sandstone looks like a dream to work. It looks like the difference between carving hard maple and basswood.

[@petegodon8938]

My Dad was a stone mason. He did a lot of hammer & chisel work dressing each stone. Instead of marking them with a pencil he used a broken off piece of a vinyl record. As in A 33 or 48 or 78. He found the line made from them to be much better lasting.

[@wolfsurge1]

Can’t wait to see it all in operation!!! Have watched it 4 or 5 times already!!! Keep up the outstanding progress!!! Kudos!!!

[@William_Borgeson]

Nicely done, it's like a sculpture to hold your anvil, looks great and I love your techniques for moving it!

[@RedmarKerkhof]

Interesting. I never would've thought to make an anvil stand from stone. It is not known for its ability to transfer percussive force. But who am I to question the word of a master blacksmith. I'm sure Mr. Greenwood knows what he's talking about. Beautiful work and a beautiful anvil.

[@waynelewis881]

Redmar Kerkhof , why would you want to transfer the force?

[@MrChickadee]

He has been using antique German anvils sat on custom Anvil bases for many years, and says they are so much better than wood.

[@OldNew45]

@@MrChickadee how so, and what drawbacks? I'm terribly intrigued. Before I make a whole new wooden one for my anvil. Pretty please.

[@Cody_Ramer]

They are better at absorbing the force because they are very heavy. Probably 1.5-2x the weight of the anvil. You don't have any give which means more force gets transferred to the piece being worked on.

[@RedmarKerkhof]

@@waynelewis881 So that the anvil doesn't ring and doesn't lose energy in unnecessary movement. Of course, ideally, you'll want all force of your hammer to go into your work but energy just flows like that. The more you can get into the ground, the more it is like the entire earth is your anvil base. But I am always open to learn new things. I'm very curious to see Mr. Chickadee forging in his shop when it's fully set up.

[@1311-g8s]

I was just checking out this video out of passive interest for stone working, first video I've seen of yours... However, as an absolute driven fanatic of hard work, building things from scratch, physical labor, stones, wood, metals and medieval construction, I damn near cried when I clicked on your channel and saw all those beautiful videos. I hope to keep seeing videos from you.

[@DonRubinjo]

Nice Anvil, and Base of course. Seems like a 150-200 year old Czech/Austrian Anvil, very beautiful in good condition. Take good care of it :-)!

[@MrChickadee]

Its a South German from 1880

[@DonRubinjo]

@@MrChickadee Thx for the info. South German..., so Austria basicaly ;-). Greetings

[@UncleBud83]

Another beautiful job form Mr. Chickadee. This guy is amazing.

[@johnlcallaway]

Thank you for sharing. Such a beautiful end result that any craftsman would be proud to have.

[@MrChickadee]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@MadMulberry]

Yay! Another Mr Chickadee video. My day is made!

[@k9six185]

He is like 2 legged xanax for us

[@trevorbaugh1335]

This looks therapeutic as hell. Like one could become a more balanced person through the activity.

[@dport4779]

That is so freakin awesome brother!! You definitely went all out! She’s coming together mighty quickly now.

[@richardrappleyea7307]

Man this was the first video I seen by him. It feels like it was a whole lot longer than two years ago

[@13daniel1974]

Your craftsmanship and abilities are inspiring. There are not many channels that I enjoy more than yours.

[@michaelcollier4548]

Now that was worth a look see. Very well executed Mr. C. It just shows that you can do amazing things with a well thought out plan. It also doesn't hurt that you have the skills to go with it. Great video

[@davidmicheletti6292]

I love the sound the stone makes when it is just starting to break while your trying to split it.

[@garyfairbrother5532]

There is a particular type of person that could watch this kind of activity all day. THAT’S ME!!!

[@Lake_Trout]

I'm absolutely amazed at your craftsmanship! Superb job from the "roadside quarry" to setting the anvil.

[@davidwootton683]

Thankyou for this very interesting video. All the bases I have seen have been made out of wood. This is to negate the shock wave from the hammer blows. I have never seen any done with stone! Kind regards and greetings from Africa.

[@badassfood5713]

Sooner or later you're going figure out how nice a 'kick' space under the edges of that stone is gonna be. Love the vids!

[@ACuriousSquirrel]

For those of us that don't understand, please explain like I'm 5 years old

[@CA-gy4qf]

@@ACuriousSquirrel like on kitchen cabinets, having an undercut/recess at the bottom would allow you to comfortably stand closer to the anvil as your toes would have somewhere to go.

[@darioranft9148]

@@ACuriousSquirrel If you want to stay very close to the anvil the base is going to be in the way for your feet which can be annoying

[@idontthinkso666]

The word is toekick.

[@aaronjoseph7573]

It's not a standing anvil..

[@olddawgdreaming5715]

Great job Josh, no truer words were ever spoken !👍👍 Thank you for sharing more of your amazing skills !

[@fakes222]

I just found this channel and is pure GOLD, suscribed!

[@thathandtoolguy]

Damn fine work as always Mr. Chickadee.

[@lukelebas6589]

Seeing this chisel carve and cut into that stone is the most satisfying thing I’ve seen on this channel

[@kevinmcphail1329]

Looks as though your the second chraftsman to work piece....nice .....my grandfather was a master stone Mason....worked on Bush Gardens for 40 yrs....it's nice to see a tools used in perspective to trade....this will work great for your iron work.....once it finds it's happy place...well done Lad.

[@kevinmcphail1329]

That anvil is a very nice piece....those are rare....and would love to have that weight....the model I have is smaller....but my favorite for light work.

[@michaelwhiteoldtimer7648]

REALLY NICE WORK SHOWING OLD TOOLS IN USE

[@sarahmacmillan232]

One of the best channels on youtube!

[@gunterschone8402]

Nice video. Great work with the stone. Looks really good, in the forge.

[@scottslinger1003]

I can’t wait to hear that beautiful anvil sing. Really nice work Chickadee

[@paulseale8409]

Our ancestors in England moved stones for Stonehenge just like this from Wales to the Salbury plain.

[@tombrown879]

One of the most beautiful things I have seen in a long time. I love stone anvil blocks. the only thing better in my opinion is a stone anvil.:) love the channel keep living the good life sir.

[@chuckholton4666]

As always....so cool to watch you keeping the old ways alive! You truly are so inspiring. It always makes my day when I see you have released a new video! Awesome work!

[@nicholasdomitraschuk1689]

OK. That is alot of Camera work and Editing. AWESOME.

[@yv6eda]

Functional art! Wow!

[@jakeleblanc]

A piece of art indeed again from Mr.Chickadee !!

[@denniswhite166]

Whoever pulls that anvil off that stone shall be King!!!

[@EliasFakenami]

That's very clever!

[@davidallen944]

As a skilled craftsman my self i cant understand how 30 people can give this a thumbs down, they must just be TROLLS that can do zero them self & get some weird kick out of putting down those that can. .

[@toddellner5283]

The youtube algorithms stop putting stuff you thumbs-down into your feed. If they watched the video and didn't do this they would get more of this content

[@cainblack9754]

Great job! Love your patience and care for each tool.

[@turboturtle5575]

Truly inspirational & highly skillful work sir !!!!!

[@RestauraresiReparatii]

Very, very nice anvil! God bless, following on every video.

[@danmiller8429]

It's like a monument to great craftsmanship

[@JDLarge]

“That’s the sound of the men, working on the chain... gaieeeang, That’s the sound of the men, working on the chain... gang. Oooh ahhh, oooh ahhh... “ Sorry but that song kinda came to mind while watching you make a little rock out of a big one😉 Youre one hard working brother, respect✌🏼

[@denniswhite166]

LOL good one!

[@beatlebomber]

As a stone mason by trade I appreciate you showing quite a few old school techniques that are being lost.

[@jeffclarkofclarklesparkle3103]

Omg 😲 wow. I didnt know you could work a stone like that...im new. Rocks and geology became my first love before traditional building and tech, which you also do. You're awesome man! P.s. loved the interview video you did with Chris and your ideas for future tutorial videos of your own. But the captions do fine for now 💖💖💖💖💖

[@DANVIIL]

A really Beautiful German style anvil with cathedral windows and upsetting block. I’d be surprised if the base might be too wide at the bottom to do close up fine work. Congrats on a job well done.

[@stihl888]

Fantastic! I'm off to buy an Anvil now!!!

[@gonebarefoot69]

That turned out amazing! Cheers from Colorado

[@fonhollohan2908]

Brilliant folks will walk into your workshop thinking it was all built in the 18oo's looks incredible.

[@robertbrunston5406]

That was awesome Mr. C, thank you.

[@theomorgillo6237]

It’s so therapeutic when no one talks .!!!!!!

[@dougalexander7204]

Much respect. Please stay awesome.

[@Sanamononoke]

Grate work mate. Hands down you are one of the best you tubers and grate creator out there keep it up can't wait till next vid👍

[@rexsmith1698]

That was an enjoyable watch. Thx

[@donaldtrabeaux1305]

Absolutely awesome craftsmanship

[@casperj.b.1705]

Cool that you write info, interesting stuff!

[@craigsudman4556]

Nicely done, great work, great video. Thumbs up.

[@wassneg3521]

I envy patience and hard work!

[@marcerivest6204]

I have never seen an anvil mounted on stone. Nice job

[@truckerdaddy-akajohninqueb4793]

If you research the Lewis jewel in free masonry, it was used to lift huge stones, sometimes called ashlars. The square hole in the bottom of the anvil made me think of this. :.

[@johnshoureas1629]

The County Officials have been wondering who has been taking the stone guard rail from County Road 21.

[@TheLoxxxton]

I came down to the comments to say the exact thing. Is he strait up stealing huge stones from the side of the road? My God a master thief using traditional tools. Who would have thunk it! 😳 Edit. What's on the next show? Gold cobble stone drive way using Fort knox bullion stolen with nothing more than a pickaxe and flintlock musket!!

[@bunyipdan]

It was suggested that I aquired my stock of rail track in a similar way (after a completely coincidental spate of heritage railroad diassasembies), sometimes people just can't help but think the worst of you (innocent! I bought them from a bloke I met at the pub). A bit supprised the let you line the edge of the road with the stones, what a score.

[@asunderco]

@@TheLoxxxton Turn on Closed Captioning. At the 7:00 minute mark he states how he allocated the blocks.

[@Worrsaint]

@@asunderco I did not know he did captions on these. I thought those were auto generated by youtube from the audio.

[@greenwoodsbushhogging6704]

@@Worrsaint dude.... you've unlocked gold for his videos. I seriously never knew that ye had captions for his videos. I just assumed it was for the deaf.

[@leksey7870]

Great stand for the anvil!

[@Onileb1]

Fantastic, very, very good

[@superdansilverman]

I would like to see a 10 hour directors cut of your stoneworking, thanks

[@royramey5659]

Very nice, never seen a anvil like that before, Thanks

[@ericmcrory4668]

Until you made the comment about rescuing the stones from a dismantled RR bridge, I thought you just set up alongside the highway and helped yourself to some state property! Actually... that would have made a better story. Nice work. So refreshing to see people use simple tools, their hands, and their minds to build quality lasting items. (Like we used to do routinely 100 years ago!)

[@deanrantz1112]

Nice job.....Seems like a lot of work for what you are gaining...I think that beast won't move much with the mounting pin alone ... But yeah that's how some people roll

[@1willys]

Nice anvil!

[@СимеонПеев]

You are my youtube inspiration!