My only complaint would be that since he must have started from a massive rectangular block, he could have removed less material and had an even heavier anvil. Probably could have hit 300lb. Damn fine anvil though, I hope it gets a proper heat-treatment and many years of use.
@@thedillestpickle Actually the block started at over 700 lbs. I don’t know if you have watched any of the other videos on this playlist. But I’m going to machine two other smaller anvils out of the extra material from the block.
Wonderful looking great effort produced a really nice anvil, we think this is awesome to watch you make it on your CNC machine, great job, great video series. Take care stay well, Lance & Patrick.
That is the coolest, stealthiest anvil I've ever seen! This took an incredible amount of skill to make. You know how people say it's a work of art? I really like the shape and the way the light reflects. Thanks Peter.
Peter been watching for a while and would like to have you as a teacher. I’m a novice by all standards as a cnc machinist, hopefully one day I’ll be as good as you.
That is so freakin AWSOME! I want to know when your gonna start selling them man, I've been watching the anvil machining since a few months ago when you made 2 smaller ones. I'm actually trying to buy a big enough anvil to be considered a real anvil myself right now. I wish I could build my own like this, this is freakin killer man.
Peter I would be greatful if you could run through your process on planing a job , I assume that you get the engineers prints as a cad file , but what are your thoughts on looking for the parts that are not possible to machine and the way you make sure that all the machining is done one a part , do you use a check sheet or WHY . BTW I have learnt a lot from your videos in the way you systematically approach the task at hand
I always said I would never own a car that I couldn't drive, a firearm i couldn't shoot but I think I found an anvil I wouldn't use as an anvil. TOO DAMN BEAUTIFUL.
What a beautiful piece of ART. The wave effect of the ball end mill , to me creates the effect of the metal being poured and the grain flow in the metal of the completed anvil. PS : Why no just chisel the sharp edges off. Ha, ha, ha NOT!!!!
@edgeprecision Hey Mr. Peter beautiful work man, by any chance can you do a video on the programming, the toolpaths you chose. Like the how, when, and why. It doesn't have to be about how to use esprit, more about the approach..? If you will..
I think the obstacles and solutions that get developed to deal with them are just fascinating. I really enjoy opportunities to increase my knowledge and problem solving skills. By supplementing it with a veterans knowledge.
thats a beauty but what's it's metallic composition its strengths and weaknesses? and will u need to quench the top differently to the body? or will u need to quench multiple times so horn isn't compromised?
This was machined out of a forged block of 4340 steel. I think it is in the normalized condition. Even in this state it is plenty strong enough for a anvil. It could be induction hardened on the top faces. If that were done it would be a most excellent anvil. This is exactly the material to make a anvil out of. I just don’t want to spend the money for this expensive heat treat process. It will work fine the way it is.
Just breath taking, what power/speeds did this job use. I was taking CNC class in the early 80’s ,we hand programmed paper tape with graph paper ,each move was based off the last move ,what a pain.
Peter, can you make a quick video on determinating the center of rotation on a horizontal machining center? I think you mentioned it during the initial setup of the roughing of the anvils but ended up using several work offsets instead.
Are you referring to 4:50 time in the video? I went back and reviewed the video at this time area. Except for a little chatter when the endmill enters the corners there is no significant chatter. You would see it in the finish if there was, Sometimes the cameras mic gives a unrealistic sound. Also this video is speed up quite a bit. That tends to distort the actual sound.
Do you ever sleep? So much surfacing.!! Question if I may. What is the little slot cut in before the full slot is made do? Does this relieve tool pressure or something?
I run a machine with the same control as yours in my shop, if you're running up against memory limit issues in the controller it's a fairly trivial process to set up DNC to the machine using OneCNC DNC and a USB->RS232 cable (there are a few specific ones that will work, some won't.) Then all you need is a laptop to keep near the machine and you can run as large of a program as you want. Read-ahead on these controls is pretty bad so I would recommend some feed rate reduction on higher feed cuts.
Those scales should be pretty accurate. If peeps haven't opened the scale and pulled on the main spring, they keep their accuracy for many years. One other thing, clean the pivot point and put a dab of way oil on it (it's under the top cover). If you can, of course, some of these are locked, so you can't mess with them. Source: i own a couple of similar ones and mine haven't lost calibration since 1984/1993 when the last stickers are from. I check them once in a while using a 1kg unit, and a 10kg unit, which are both calibrated weights. Old school scales are the best, they know no death if given some TLC.
This has got to be some of the best work I have seen on RUclips. I am bias for sure as I have a strong desire to buy this anvil. What would this cost me to purchase. Just asking Sir. Very nice work using cutouts for great projects !!!!!! Peace
That cut is not using cutter comp. I reprocessed the program with a finer tolerance. To improve on the poor finish. Because of the massive increase in size of the program. Over 5 meg (The machine only can take 500K) I had to do a DNC/drip feed from the computer to rerun that cut.
Maybe a stupid question, I have never seen somebody do this, but would it be effective to run a sanding pass with something like a sanding ball for a perfect surface finish?
I have seen this done on a CNC lathe before. They were turning a valve stem on this machine. In order to improve the finish they had a scotch bright wheel mounted in a live tool on the turret. Used it to polish the area after turning.
It would be very hard for.me to do any work on this anvil! It would probably go into a show case! It looks more like something you would find In a treasure chest. Lol..
Can that mill do simultaneous 4 axis, or just 3 plus 1? 3D CAM surfacing always strikes me as an idiot savant, there will be all these beautiful flowing toolpaths, then some wonky move for unknown reasons.
No I was doing it with the air hose. The lifting magnet I used must have slightly magnetized the part. The shavings were sticking to the part. Normally I would be using flood coolant. But for the sake of the video I was running with no coolant. So you guys could see better.
The Horn is 7" long perpendicular to the side face. That would be a long endmill. Also there are many different tapers. The top of the horn is straight so a tapered endmill wont do the cut. A 5 axis move could but this machine doesn't have the five axis.
A barrel mill yes but tapered no. But a barrel cant finish all the way down unless it has a small radius on its tip. So it could be good till the last say 1/2" than I would have to come in with another too to get the smaller radius between the horn and the face. But I didn't have that tooling. I wasn't wanting to spend any more on tooling. Just use what I already had.
Truly amazing Peter! I don't know how you got that 1" endmill to cut and not chatter the entire time. Do you remember what you were running for feeds/speeds? Especially with the differences in the length of engagement on the heel end of the anvil I would think chatter would have been an issue.
Peter, that tease at the start got me laughing and certainly trapped me for the whole video XD Do you plan on heat treating the anvil when you're done?
I had this left over forging from a job a long time ago. In fact I have two of them. Making a anvil this way is probably the most expensive way to do it. These forgings just by themselves cost more than buying a new anvil. I had them so I did it this way for the videos.
@@EdgePrecision thanks for the info. Truly a work of art. Did you eventually hear treat. My assumption is that it turn out as one awesome forging anvil. It definitely had a sweet ring. 😁 Truly enjoyed watching your video. Thanks for sharing.
@@gingebrien2408 I haven’t heat treated it. I have finished the smaller ones out of the same block of material. I need to get a price for maybe a induction heat treat of the top surfaces of all three anvils. If it is reasonable I may do it. But really just the way they are is good enough for a decent anvil. You don’t really need all that hardness for forging hot metals.
@@EdgePrecision Most modern tool steel anvils are heat treated, IMO. I have a Hay Budden with the top 1/3rd tool steel, and it is definitely heat treated. The Crucible in Oakland, CA made some solid tool steel anvils and heat treated them as I recall.
.......like something done by H.R. Giger, brought to life.....a truly functional piece of modern industrial art, excellent work.
That has got to be one of the finest anvils on planet earth~ beautiful work Peter.
My only complaint would be that since he must have started from a massive rectangular block, he could have removed less material and had an even heavier anvil. Probably could have hit 300lb.
Damn fine anvil though, I hope it gets a proper heat-treatment and many years of use.
@@thedillestpickle Actually the block started at over 700 lbs. I don’t know if you have watched any of the other videos on this playlist. But I’m going to machine two other smaller anvils out of the extra material from the block.
I sure would love to have one but iam sure the price would be astronomical! But what a beautiful piece!
@@EdgePrecision Sir, is it 4140 steel?
@@ayrkotu1612 no 4340 steel forging.
Trade, 60 yr old wife, 10 yr old bull terrier, lots of kids, 1990 Ford F-150 and a new 8 foot fiberglass ladder. I love that ladder!
Bet if you toss in grandpa's fly rod...
good 1
It has always amazed me to see a CNC machine in action. Beautiful finished product. Thanks for sharing this!
Not sure how practical this is for a blacksmith, but I'd buy it as a centerpiece work of art for my house! Beautiful job.
18:00 That clearance between the tip of the horn and the toolholder had me puckered up!
Likewise. 16:33 made me tense up everywhere as well.
I don’t want this series to end. I love seeing you make anvils.
should change the channel name to cnc machined anvil channel and just make anvils
Same here!, this is the best channel ive found on here!
Wonderful looking great effort produced a really nice anvil, we think this is awesome to watch you make it on your CNC machine, great job, great video series. Take care stay well, Lance & Patrick.
Thanks Guys! How about some videos? I miss you guys.
I also miss you guys.
Thought younz had fallen off the map! MORE CONTENT!
16:18 those moirè patterns are beautiful... who's the lucky guy who gets this masterpiece??
That is the coolest, stealthiest anvil I've ever seen! This took an incredible amount of skill to make. You know how people say it's a work of art? I really like the shape and the way the light reflects. Thanks Peter.
I had a machine, early Deckel FP4 nc with 24k memory.....that was a challenge every time. Great work once again Peter!
In the old days before Cam software we ran simple programs. Now with the software and new cutting strategies it takes a lot more memory.
I'm not sure how often it's mentioned to you but your programming is amazing. Some of those tool paths took a lot of thought.
nothing like a custom anvil. thank you for having interest in doing such a project.
Peter been watching for a while and would like to have you as a teacher. I’m a novice by all standards as a cnc machinist, hopefully one day I’ll be as good as you.
Wow! Wonderful result Peter! I hope I can be such as skilled and playful when I'm your age. Thank you! Mesmerizing cuts...
That is some slick programming, the 3D path on the horn with the shell mill
Love the proportions that anvil has! Looks very cool👌
That is so freakin AWSOME! I want to know when your gonna start selling them man, I've been watching the anvil machining since a few months ago when you made 2 smaller ones. I'm actually trying to buy a big enough anvil to be considered a real anvil myself right now. I wish I could build my own like this, this is freakin killer man.
So awesome Peter! Thanks for explaining why you couldn't face the cone on the anvil.
Awesome work Peter!
This is not a tool ,is a piece of art a machinart
That is a beautiful tool you made there. Find the right buyer and you can sell it as an art piece.
Long time viewer loving the new format!! Piece of foam in front of the mic? Perfection.
Let’s just say I was not disappointed. Very good camera work very good machining
15:46 great cam work in here ........ these machines never cease to amaze me
That is a piece of art! Someone is going to be a lucky person to receive that from you.
Love the logo. Great work. 👍
Nicest anvil I have ever seen. You could show it in an art gallery. Nice work Peter.
Engraving at 40kW! :) Nice video... and the most expensive filming turntable on all of YT at the end. Brialliant.
That anvil is so cool. What cool surface finishes
I wish I could be this guy’s apprentice for awhile, wow. Awesome
Looks and sounds beautiful Peter!
ATB, Robin
Great job Peter! Looks fantastic.
Thanks Bill!
Stunning, I lack the words to describe the craftsmanship and attention to detail!
This is such an extra way of making an anvil, I love it.
Just found my new sweet dreams before bed video! Thanks man! It looks AMAZING!
Gorgeous work. Thanks for the video Peter!
That is wild how you use the outside of that face mill to round out that horn. 👍
Always a pleasure watching your videos
Beautiful job Peter. Well done.
Peter
I would be greatful if you could run through your process on planing a job , I assume that you get the engineers prints as a cad file , but what are your thoughts on looking for the parts that are not possible to machine and the way you make sure that all the machining is done one a part , do you use a check sheet or WHY .
BTW I have learnt a lot from your videos in the way you systematically approach the task at hand
I always said I would never own a car that I couldn't drive, a firearm i couldn't shoot but I think I found an anvil I wouldn't use as an anvil. TOO DAMN BEAUTIFUL.
What a beautiful piece of ART.
The wave effect of the ball end mill , to me creates the effect of the metal being poured and the grain flow in the metal of the completed anvil.
PS : Why no just chisel the sharp edges off. Ha, ha, ha NOT!!!!
@edgeprecision Hey Mr. Peter beautiful work man, by any chance can you do a video on the programming, the toolpaths you chose. Like the how, when, and why. It doesn't have to be about how to use esprit, more about the approach..? If you will..
I think the obstacles and solutions that get developed to deal with them are just fascinating. I really enjoy opportunities to increase my knowledge and problem solving skills. By supplementing it with a veterans knowledge.
What a beautiful piece you made ! and very interesting video as always !
Master craftsman work! Ok, I need 50 of them lol!
thats a beauty but what's it's metallic composition its strengths and weaknesses? and will u need to quench the top differently to the body? or will u need to quench multiple times so horn isn't compromised?
This was machined out of a forged block of 4340 steel. I think it is in the normalized condition. Even in this state it is plenty strong enough for a anvil. It could be induction hardened on the top faces. If that were done it would be a most excellent anvil. This is exactly the material to make a anvil out of. I just don’t want to spend the money for this expensive heat treat process. It will work fine the way it is.
excellent job on the cam, thats a lot of planning
Just Awesome, beautiful job Peter.
Thanks Randy!
That’s absolutely gorgeous.
Just breath taking, what power/speeds did this job use.
I was taking CNC class in the early 80’s ,we hand programmed paper tape with graph paper ,each move was based off the last move ,what a pain.
Peter, can you make a quick video on determinating the center of rotation on a horizontal machining center? I think you mentioned it during the initial setup of the roughing of the anvils but ended up using several work offsets instead.
How do I get this anvil? It would be an honor to forge on such a beautifully machined piece of equipment. Good work!
Great job! How much did the material weigh before processing?
The block/forging this and the other two smaller (Witch I still need to finish) anvils came out of. Started out at approximately 750 Lbs.
4:50
hi Peter would you have gone faster ? or even slower to not hear that chatter ?? or it's not avoidable?
Are you referring to 4:50 time in the video? I went back and reviewed the video at this time area. Except for a little chatter when the endmill enters the corners there is no significant chatter. You would see it in the finish if there was, Sometimes the cameras mic gives a unrealistic sound. Also this video is speed up quite a bit. That tends to distort the actual sound.
What a firm cutter : endmill and spherical mill?
Brilliant, you are an artist!
Interesting watching the tool paths.
Do you ever sleep? So much surfacing.!! Question if I may. What is the little slot cut in before the full slot is made do? Does this relieve tool pressure or something?
I'm not sure what you are asking. Can you give me a time in the video when this is happening?
A thing of beauty! Bet after heat treatment it will ring like a bell with two horns to vibrate.
I run a machine with the same control as yours in my shop, if you're running up against memory limit issues in the controller it's a fairly trivial process to set up DNC to the machine using OneCNC DNC and a USB->RS232 cable (there are a few specific ones that will work, some won't.) Then all you need is a laptop to keep near the machine and you can run as large of a program as you want. Read-ahead on these controls is pretty bad so I would recommend some feed rate reduction on higher feed cuts.
I think I mentioned in the video. When I recut the horn the program was 5 meg size. I ran that from my laptop thru the serial cable in the DNC mode.
Thank you so much for the captions! Am by no means gay, but love your channel and dedication to detail!
Hello Peter
thank you for this magnificent video
the result of your work is mouth-watering.
it's almost a crime to hit this with a hammer
Those scales should be pretty accurate. If peeps haven't opened the scale and pulled on the main spring, they keep their accuracy for many years. One other thing, clean the pivot point and put a dab of way oil on it (it's under the top cover). If you can, of course, some of these are locked, so you can't mess with them.
Source: i own a couple of similar ones and mine haven't lost calibration since 1984/1993 when the last stickers are from. I check them once in a while using a 1kg unit, and a 10kg unit, which are both calibrated weights.
Old school scales are the best, they know no death if given some TLC.
Nice camera angles.
The first ten seconds had me frustrated like it was prom night all over again.
This has got to be some of the best work I have seen on RUclips. I am bias for sure as I have a strong desire to buy this anvil. What would this cost me to purchase. Just asking Sir. Very nice work using cutouts for great projects !!!!!! Peace
When you re skinned the horn did you change the cutter comp or change the program its self?
That cut is not using cutter comp. I reprocessed the program with a finer tolerance. To improve on the poor finish. Because of the massive increase in size of the program. Over 5 meg (The machine only can take 500K) I had to do a DNC/drip feed from the computer to rerun that cut.
Very cool. Thanks for sharing! It's a piece of blacksmithing jewelry.
como siempre un trabajo magnifico y un video del que disfrutar y aprender..muchas gracias por tu tiempi..un saludo y mucha salud
That is a gorgeous piece of steel.
Maybe a stupid question, I have never seen somebody do this, but would it be effective to run a sanding pass with something like a sanding ball for a perfect surface finish?
I have seen this done on a CNC lathe before. They were turning a valve stem on this machine. In order to improve the finish they had a scotch bright wheel mounted in a live tool on the turret. Used it to polish the area after turning.
What a beautiful piece of work it is one hell of an anvil.
It would be very hard for.me to do any work on this anvil! It would probably go into a show case! It looks more like something you would find In a treasure chest. Lol..
...oh, dobrá práce👏👏 ( sehr gute, saubere und genaue Arbeit), 👉👍✊ 🙋
YAY ! [That is one epic/ kick-ass anvil ] beautiful moves + design.
My man another impressive video .
What brand was your engraving tool 🔧.
Is your horizontal a mazak ?
The engraving tool is a .062 die sinking ball endmill. My horizontal mill is a Mitsubishi M-H80E.
Can that mill do simultaneous 4 axis, or just 3 plus 1?
3D CAM surfacing always strikes me as an idiot savant, there will be all these beautiful flowing toolpaths, then some wonky move for unknown reasons.
This machine has a full fourth axis. So it is possible to do a four axis move.
Peter! Made my morning!
Great Work.
Greetings from germany
Truly a metal sculpture of an Idylic anvil that I would absolutely defile by using... and use it I WOULD
How it is posible to dislike it?
@16:35 Scary stuf!
@29:09 Supper cool shoot!
Are you blowing chips away manually or is that part of the program?
No I was doing it with the air hose. The lifting magnet I used must have slightly magnetized the part. The shavings were sticking to the part. Normally I would be using flood coolant. But for the sake of the video I was running with no coolant. So you guys could see better.
What type of customer uses an anvil like that?
That thing came out awesome!
I watch your videos all the time love the anvil wish can have one
is this what happens when you've run out of job que but you still wanna mill?
Fantastic job as usual!
How about grind a meaty taper endmill and mill under the horn instead of the long 1” end mill?
The Horn is 7" long perpendicular to the side face. That would be a long endmill. Also there are many different tapers. The top of the horn is straight so a tapered endmill wont do the cut. A 5 axis move could but this machine doesn't have the five axis.
@@EdgePrecision I was thinking short stubby then scan down like 3D. Or barrel mill?
A barrel mill yes but tapered no. But a barrel cant finish all the way down unless it has a small radius on its tip. So it could be good till the last say 1/2" than I would have to come in with another too to get the smaller radius between the horn and the face. But I didn't have that tooling. I wasn't wanting to spend any more on tooling. Just use what I already had.
cnc machined from a good forging... that thing is a GEM
Anvil hell it’s a work of art 👍👍
🇺🇸🦅🌏⚓️🇺🇸
Great job made by an amazing crafter thumbs up
Its so nice to see something made just because you can fantastic work love it
That's a MELDAS 500 isn't it? Those can be upgraded to 2MB of program memory.
To nice of an anvil to hit😄.
It's like driving a Mercedes through a mud hole.
Truly amazing Peter! I don't know how you got that 1" endmill to cut and not chatter the entire time. Do you remember what you were running for feeds/speeds? Especially with the differences in the length of engagement on the heel end of the anvil I would think chatter would have been an issue.
I ended up running 350 rpm at 8.5" per minute feed.
That's a beautiful anvil! I can't wait to what the small ones look like.
Peter, that tease at the start got me laughing and certainly trapped me for the whole video XD
Do you plan on heat treating the anvil when you're done?
Why would heat treat and make it shatter when hit with a hammer ?
your hammer is heat treated too and it doesn't shatter when you hit something with it though, right?
@@HAGmbHkeG 👆
@@peterresetz1960 first you heat treat, then you temper! That way it doesn't shatter.
I believe he said it was a pre heat treated material
What was the cost to make it? Did you just start with a huge chunk of steel?
I had this left over forging from a job a long time ago. In fact I have two of them. Making a anvil this way is probably the most expensive way to do it. These forgings just by themselves cost more than buying a new anvil. I had them so I did it this way for the videos.
@@EdgePrecision thanks for the info. Truly a work of art. Did you eventually hear treat. My assumption is that it turn out as one awesome forging anvil. It definitely had a sweet ring. 😁 Truly enjoyed watching your video. Thanks for sharing.
@@gingebrien2408 I haven’t heat treated it. I have finished the smaller ones out of the same block of material. I need to get a price for maybe a induction heat treat of the top surfaces of all three anvils. If it is reasonable I may do it. But really just the way they are is good enough for a decent anvil. You don’t really need all that hardness for forging hot metals.
Thanks. I figured that. But since you mentioned heat treatment I wondered if you went the extra mile. Again thanks for your time.
@@EdgePrecision Most modern tool steel anvils are heat treated, IMO. I have a Hay Budden with the top 1/3rd tool steel, and it is definitely heat treated. The Crucible in Oakland, CA made some solid tool steel anvils and heat treated them as I recall.