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Overheard a kid at the flea market say 'who needs an anvil when you got a chunk of railroad track'
This was last weekend at the big swap meet outside Nashville. I'm walking past a booth with a couple old sledgehammers and a rusty post vise, and this teenager maybe 16 or 17 is telling his buddy that exact thing. Said he's been using a piece of track laid flat on some cinder blocks for like 6 months and it works fine. I didn't say anything but it got me thinking about how I started 20 years ago on a beat up anvil I found in a barn that weighed maybe 50 pounds. That thing rang like a bell and wobbled on a stump. The kid's not wrong about the track working for basic stuff but I wonder how many people skip the real deal and then wonder why their hammer control never gets better. Has anyone else noticed beginners leaning harder on grinder work and cheap setups instead of learning the basics on proper gear?
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the_thomas18d ago
Nail that ring to a stump first. Track works fine.
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