I discovered a machine shop not too far from me and went there to buy a mild steel plate to weld as a foot for the rail but discovered that they were also selling steel off-cuts and bought this rectangular chunk of tool steel that is supposed to be very hard after heat treatment, it should cope very well with hammering. I started with this piece of crane rail I found at a garage sale and got it for 5 Australian dollars along with some fishing gears and other stuffs.
The hardy hole is one part that I'm unsure about, I hope it will be strong enough, else I will have to cover it with a steel plate with a square hole on it to strengthen it more. Between the rail and the chunk of steel is a square hole called a hardy hole used for attaching removable tools. The rail track has a small rectangular shaped area (the head of the rail) that will be my striking area, the web (part that links the head to the base) was rounded down and will be used as a fuller (to make dents and shoulders), one side of the base was sharpened and will be used as a hot cut when the other side was rounded into a horn/bickern used for curling bars or making rings for example. The anvil would be my main anvil for shaping the work piece while the longer chunk of steel would be used to flatten it if needed. It is composed of two main parts, the rail anvil itself and a rectangle chunk of tool steel. About a week later, I started building my anvil from a piece of crane rail track (smaller than a railroad track), it took me 8 days to complete it. Two weeks ago I was talking about my project of setting up a blacksmith shop at home.
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