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Shoutout to my first anvil from a garage sale, which went from a rusty doorstop to my main tool after 3 months of grinding and oiling.

The change happened because I finally took the advice from an old guy at the Tacoma guild meeting who said, 'Kid, just keep hitting it with a wire wheel until your arm falls off, then soak it.'
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noah880
noah8803mo ago
That Tacoma guild guy's advice saved you three months of guesswork, didn't it?
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the_morgan
the_morgan3mo ago
Wasting months on a junk anvil is dumb.
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wyatt_shah85
I used to roll my eyes at the old-timer advice and figured I knew better. But after three months of elbow grease on that anvil, I gotta admit he was dead right. Sometimes you just gotta trust the guy who's been doing it for forty years.
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