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Update: my great uncle's 40 year old anvil had a face like a golf ball, then he let me wire wheel it
So my great uncle Earl has this anvil in his barn outside Abilene that he bought used back in 1984 for 60 bucks. The face was dented and pitted everywhere, and I always figured that was just how old anvils were supposed to look, right? He handed me a wire wheel for his angle grinder last Saturday and told me to have at it for 20 minutes, and I swear the thing looked like a completely different chunk of steel. All that black crust flaked off and underneath was this smooth grey face with the maker's stamp still readable, turns out it was a Hay Budden. Earl just laughed and said he'd been meaning to do that since the 90s. Problem is now I can see every single hammer dent he put in it over 40 years and he refuses to let me dress them out with a flap disc. He says the dents are the anvil's memory, which sounds nice until you're trying to draw out a taper on a bumpy surface. Anybody else got a relative with tools they won't let you properly fix, or am I alone on this one?
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