The Harbor Freight Anvil!

Harbor Freight Cast Iron Anvils, what are they good for?

[zelousfoxtrot]

Rule for all Harbor Freight tools: Buy it once, if you use it enough to break it, buy quality for the replacement.

[communistpootisbirb]

“They’re not very good but they’re not as bad as people say”

Harbor Freight in a nutshell.

[josephbarker]

I haven't had the money for a good anvil yet, so I have been so grateful to have my harbor freight anvil.

[lv]

I adjust my expectations accordingly due to the 75 dollar price point. Great anvil.

[jacksonhodge]

Man I love your tone, not pretentious or condescending, just pure advice.

[Normal]

I hate people who trash something, when they have no clue on how to use it. This is a true review. A customer complained that a $5 hole saw, wouldn't cut through a quarter inch of steel.

[southronjr]

I have several of them for teaching blacksmithing to scouts in the metalworking merit badge. After each class, I simply take a flap disk to the tops to smooth them back out. Their cheap, and fairly easy to fix after being beaten on. I keep my nice anvil for me demonstrating the techniques and for some of the better student to use after I get the feel for how good their hammer control is

[LairdErnst]

“If you put your new anvil on top of your old anvil… you might be a blacksmith.”

-Jeff Smithworthy

[DarkMatterX]

I have that exact anvil. For the light duty/repair/tinker stuff I do it's perfectly fine. Anyone with any sense knows it isn't for seriously blacksmithing. For softer alloys it's more than enough.

[mikejohnston]

Hell, I started out with one. Did quite a bit of work with it until I noticed it saddling in the first year. I upgraded, but it holds my shop door open on nice days 😂

[michelerjgross]

Thanks for telling these tool vids how it really is pros and cons and telling it from an honest and unbiased professional point of view

[kmorris]

Back when I was beginning to be a jeweler, I bought a lot of my first tools from HF. I understood that they would last only a few jobs. But when you are starting out and spending as much as it cost for things like a microtorch, stock and solder, they are a welcome savings. Of course as soon as I was able to then I bought higher quality tools. But truth is that I still have some HF tools as a backup because things happen and sometimes a $200 set of setting pliers can break seemingly on their own, lol.

[bjolly]

"It's not really an Anvil, it's an anvil shaped object"😂😂

[Nathan-ftif]

I used it to make my son's armor for Halloween. I knew it wasn't good. But it's great for small projects. I don't regret buying it.

[alienature]

Found one of these by the side of the road, never knew it was a HF joint, should have guessed. I just do hobby metal work, welding and sheetmetal so its always been more than enough.

[blackmark]

For Harbor Freight stuff, the rule I go by is that you buy when you need the tool. If you use the tool enough that it actually breaks, up the quality when you replace it because you've seen that you use that tool a lot.

[ModestNeophyte]

I appreciate a gentleman who does not gatekeep

[TwinSimian]

That's a great take, a lot of wisdom in this video. They are heavy duty tools and equipment meant to last years being used weekly by professionals and tossed off the roof into the back of a truck, and there are lower quality versions meant for DIYers or folks just getting started.

[JH-qifz]

Hit the nail on the head! I have one in my farm shop for changing sickles, and for basic straightening and pounding. Just like he said, it ain't great, but it's okay for something cheap.

[ridge]

Wile E Coyote could use it. Perfect for dropping on the roadrunner 😂