Spent 3 hours chasing a wobble on my anvil that turned out to be a 2 minute fix

Tessa Hill · 2026-11-13T08:20:06.071437+00:00

So last Tuesday I noticed my anvil had a weird ring and a little wobble when I hit it, drove me nuts. I pulled the whole stump apart, checked the base for cracks, reset the wedges twice, even ran a straightedge over the face thinking it warped. Three hours later I'm sweaty and mad in my garage in Modesto and my neighbor wanders over and asks if I checked the ground under the stump. Turns out a chunk of concrete had crumbled out from under one corner and the whole thing was rocking about a quarter inch. I slid a scrap of 2x4 under it and the wobble was gone in like two minutes. The ring was just the anvil sitting flat again, nothing wrong with the tool at all. What's the dumbest simple thing that had you tearing apart your setup for no reason?

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