Cylindrical Mandrel Anvil - Blacksmithing

[DocChuck]

I needed a way to forge nearly perfect circles rapidly of a fixed diameter and I was tooling up for a run of projects needing horseshoes and barstock into small diameter cirlces...so I went to a local small order metals shop and purchased a bunch of drops of varying thicknesses and welded them together to make a mandrel/anvil that mounts into either a vice or hardy hole in my anvil.

[jere]

wow thats the craziest looking tool that fits on an anvil I have ever seen! It looks like it would be incredibly useful too! what it the final product will you be making with it?

[kbalch]

Thanks DocChuck! I've added your Cylindrical Mandrel Anvil to our Anvils category, as well as to your builder page: DocChuck's Homemade Tools. Your receipt:

Cylindrical Mandrel Anvil by DocChuck

tags: vise, anvil, welding, hardy, cylinder, mandrel

[DIYer]

Yeah, that is unusual. Would be interested to see how it's used.

[DocChuck]

Hi There, currently I'm taking #0 horseshoes and making them nearly perfect circle rings for use as drinking glass holders when welded to rod or barstock...also as candleholder bases...


May I post pics of some projects that aren't tools...but what I make using them.

[DocChuck]

Can I post videos on this site...if so, how?

[Jon]

Sure, you can just post a YouTube url, and it will automatically get converted into an embedded video player.

[Altair]

That's one handy mandrel stake. One tool to do it all.

Al

[RustyWrench]

I like the idea of 5 diameters close together for what you are doing. When using this mandrel on the smallest diameters is there an excess of vibration because of their distance from the hardy hole support? RustyWrench

[kbalch]

May I post pics of some projects that aren't tools...but what I make using them.

Absolutely! Please post those non-tool projects in the Not a Tool, but Homemade subforum. We're looking to seeing your work!

Ken