On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:36:41 -0500, the infamous Pete Keillor
scrawled the following:

On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 19:16:48 -0600, Ignoramus16228
wrote:

On 2008-12-22, Pete Keillor wrote:
On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:04:21 -0600, Ignoramus16228
wrote:

On 2008-12-21, Erik wrote:

It would lose properties valuable in an anvil, such as ring and
rebound.

Just curious... what value does 'ringing' add an anvil? Rebound I can
understand.

I went way out of my way to stop mine from ringing...

I think that the value of ringing is the resale value of the anvil.
Otherwise I agree with you, I hate ringing too.

Ditto. If it rings, it's probably not cracked or delaminated.
Minimizing the ringing in use is good.

Ringing and rebound are very similar physical properties, they are a
manifestation of how little energy is absorbed by anvil, as opposed to
being returned to work. So a "good" anvil keeps ringing for a long
time after being struck, which is utterly useless, but is a good sign
of anvil's other abilities to return energy back to work.

Anyone has a good suggestion to reduce ringing? Stick a rag into the
hardie hole? Put a female tit on the heel?

Put lead sheet between the anvil and base. Fasten to board on bucket
of sand.

A lead sheet on -top- would work a whole lot better.

--
Women and cats will do as they please,

and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

--Robert A. Heinlein