Big skillets, found two

[Spinster]

Now BillHoney, it's all in the inflection. Not the word. One way of saying gets you a spoon beating, the other gets you spoon bread with butter and honey.


That little anvil thing makes sense. I was thinking that thing with the cylindrical point on one side and the slotted block on the other end. But there is also the railroad tie anvil, so there must be others.

[reddcorp]

Yep, an anvil is a good thing to have for a lot of reasons. My kids got me one for Father's day from Harbor Freight. A pretty decent anvil, about 75lbs, just right for my blacksmith needs. Really beat getting another tie.

Andy Redd

[billwatson2]

Somebody wanted to know what was right.

It's stamped steel, not cast iron. They took a sheet of steel and stamped a round piece into a flat-bottomed circle with sides either straight up or flared out slightly. Then they took a piece of bar steel or iron, flattened one end into a triangle and bent it at an angle, and riveted it to the top edge of the stamped steel, usually with three rivets. There's no one set specification because lots of companies made these and you can occasionally find one that someone either made in a farm smithy or repaired in a farm smithy.
They are not as collectible as cast iron, so they're affordable if you can find them. They also tend not to last quite so long as cast iron, I guess, and get tossed as junk more often over the years because it doesn't take much disuse to find one rusty the next time you go looking for it. The two I just found are in good shape, ready to go for this weekend at McDowell but I think it would be neat to sandblast them gently at some point and see what these things looked like new.
It had to be my imagination, but when I heated these after cleaning them, before applying some cooking oil to hold the line against rust, I swear I smelled fried onions coming off one of them.

[mike51tenn]

If you find one that needs the cool handle changed out, get up with me. We've got a boy doing a dandy job on the defarb.

I actually found two with cool handles but they were quite rusty at one time and someone had coated them and glued some kind of pictures on the bottoms. The hunt continues.....

Guntown's about 2 hours southeast of me so not bad of a drive. They have a big motorcycle junk yard down there too.