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Almost every day we are adding new items. In order to help you find the newest additions we have added this page. Here we will try to log changes and additions by date as we make them. There will always be daily changes in the Virtual Hammer-In and the Guru page.
That is over ONE MILLION per year (353 days). Our curent traffic rate is 1.67 million/year and will exceed 2 million/year sometime next year! This is following the same increase that has had us equaling the total accumulated traffic of the prior years! January 1, 2003 @ 2,255,000 Year Start. June 30, 2003 @ 3,000,000 We have broken the three million visitor mark this morning. Traffic is down a little. That is 745,000 visits since January 1st for an average of 4082 visits a day. July 28, 2003 : TRANSFERED TO NEW SERVER It took 30 days to setup and move to the new server. This included numerous other sites that we host. It then took another couple months to debug everything. . (Five months later we still have issues to address) February 23, 2004 @ 4,000,000 We broke the FOUR MILLION visitor mark late today. That is one million visitors in less than 8 months! October 7, 2004 @ 5,000,000 Sometime in the wee hours this morning we broke the 5 million visitor mark! That is another million visits in less 8 months again! April 14, 2005 @ 6,000,000 We broke the 6 million visitor mark! That is another million visits in less than 7 months! October 17, 2005 @ 7,000,000 We broke the 7 million visitor mark! That is another million visits in less than 6 months! We are now at the two million visitor per year traffic rate. December 31, 2004 @ 12:PM and 5,405,192 Posted a year end edition of the NEWS covering the passing of Bill Gichner and closing of KeenJunk.com January 1, 2005 @ 5,407,257 In December 2004 we had 133,641 visits. In 2004 we had: 1,680,392 visits. In April we will be 7 years old. Anvilfire Inventory: 378 News pages as of Jan. 1 (89.1 Mb) 334 Archive pages (51.8 Mb) 165 iForge demos (88.6 Mb) 55 Book reviews (68.9 Mb) 42 FAQs 30 Stories (not including Paw-Paw's TRB) 28 Articles not on the FAQs list 19 Power Hammer pages 15 JYH pages 13 Armoury pages 13 Plan File ---------------------- 1092 TOTAL HTML article pages Not including the home page, indexes, the Pub, Classroom, the Touchmark Registry, Mass3j calculator, Paw-Paw's TRB, Blacksmiths Ring "home", live forums and many others. Many of these HTML "pages" would equate to many print pages. The 200 iForge and book review pages would be 500 to 800 full size print pages. IMAGES: (estimates) 1,575 in the NEWS 3,000 in the iForge demos 500 in articles. ---------------------- +5,000 TOTAL images January 6, 2005 @ 5,438,780 Updated the Calendar of events. You may now post your events for the entire year of 2005. Also archived the 2004 calendar for future reference. January 10, 2005 @ 5,456,839 Updated the Swordmaking article with another letter and added another book to the Resource list. Posted a new book review, "Machine Shop Trade Secrets" by James A. Harvey. More to come. February 14, 2005 Launched edition 37 of the NEWS covering my Costa Rica trip. Blacksmiths and ironwork in Costa Rica. February 16, 2005 Found that I had lost the archives of the last two weeks of January while using somone elses computer in Costa Rica. I had saved them there but not uploaded them due to viruses on the computer. When I left I errased the files on their computer. . . March 1, 2005 @ 5,797,100 March 28, 2005 @ 5,899,813 Lots has been going on since I got back including being out sick for a week and taking over a week to recuperate. . VERY bad flu! Have not been keeping up with this log Posted TWO new reviews on the book review page. The Rolling Mill CD has been linked from the original review. The Hasluck's metalworking is new, great book. Posted a FAQ on Hydraulic piping from a discusion the past few days. Thanks to Tony and ptree. April 1, 2005 @ 5,924,340 Anvilfire's Brake Drum forge articles were featured in Farm Show Magazine, Vol 29 #2, p39. Trafic was UP considerably in March 158,280 Visits (5,100 /day) 2,103,559 Pages served 5,581,869 Files served 44,363,570 Kbytes Found via 23644 search terms and accessed from 128 countries and linked to by 10,000 sites! April 3, 2005 @ 5,934,339 April 11, 2005 @ 5,980,300 Rapidly approaching six million visits! Just updated the archives with 3 weeks from the Guru's Den and two entries for March. Updated the Anvil Making article. April 14, 2005 @ 6,000,000 SIX MILLION VISITS! April 16, 2005 @ 6,013,689 SIX MILLION VISITS! Sometime on April 14th we passed the six million visit point. We are are at the two million visitor per year point. Daily visits are up to 6678 in the past week! Friday May 13, 2005 Our good friend and Chairman of CSI Jim Paw-Paw Wilson died today. He will be sorely missed. June 1, 2005 @ 6,280,991 Archived a record sized May Virtual Hammer-In at a whopping 529K. Much of this was tributes to Paw-Paw. We have had a record 280K visitors in 47 days. Very close to 6,000 visitors a day. That is still a 2.1 MILLION visitors/year rate! June 2, 2005 @ 6,286,111 5:00am Posted the posthumous iForge safety demo on metal fume fever by Jim paw-Paw Wilson. Moved safety demos to top of the list. June 2, 2005 @ 6,288,311 noon Added "almost always misdiagnosed" to last paragraph of safety demo. . that's what I get for pulling all nighters. June 23, 2005 @ 6,398,972 Posted the Jim Paw-Paw Wilson Memorial Hammer-In pages of the news. June 24, 2005 @ 6,401,448 Posted the NC-ABANA March meeting pages of the news. July, 2005 Moved anvilfire office. Maintenence tasks on site and seever only. August 18, 2005 @ 6,659,292 Started posting the Uri Hofi, Power Hammer School edition of the news. More to come! August 21, 2005 @ 6,674,430 Finished posting the Uri Hofi, Power Hammer School edition of the news. If you looked earlier there is much more! August 27, 2005 @ 6,706,081 Posted July and August Archives (8). These use a new system that will reduce archiving work in the future. It will still be done by hand for the time being but several steps have been saved by some "smart" dynamic coding. Hope to make it smarter in the future. September 19, 2005 Updated our store shipping system so that it would correctly calculate heavy packages and oversize for Kaowool. Kaowool in full case now shipped by UPS only, all other shipments by US Mail only. Updated cart to use Priority mail for all Richard Postman book orders. September 21, 2005 @ 6,837,492 Added a Coal Fire Management FAQ and updated links to and from the forge hood and low loss stack plans. Will archive forums before leaving for SOFA in the AM. September 29, 2005 @ 6,889,874 Posted a review of the NEW Uri Hofi power hammer video "Free Form Forging with Uri Hofi". Posted the same for sale in the store. September 30, 2005 @ 6,892,096 AM - Corrected the price on the NEW Uri Hofi power hammer video to 49.95. Reduced shipping on several items. October 1, 2005 @ 6,950,000 Updated the Math FAQ with a post on mathematical thought. Added two links. October 5, 2005 @ 6,892,096 Updated the English glossary adding some anchors and updates. October 17, 2005 @ 7,000,000! We passed the seven million mark today. We passed the six million mark on April 14, 2005. That is one million visitors in less than six months for a rate of TWO MILLION visitors a year! Added a RR-spike material FAQ. Corrected a design error in the Blacksmiths Ring nav-bar that only showed up in the newest browsers. Line widths which could be defined as a percentage of the width of a table cell are now incorrectly displayed as the width of the full table thus extending into other cells or out of the table. The correction used a specific width in pixels. Maintaining HTML pages is a constant battle against changing standards. . . October 19, 2005 @ 7,012,500 Added the color illustration to the Frank Turley Marc Simmons book review of Southwestern Colonial Ironwork. October 20, 2005 @ 7,023,205 Posted Roman smithing illustrations from Bruce Blackistone in response to a question. Corrected links from Reference-Guides.com to Bible-History.com on the Blacksmiths in the Bible story page. External links are always changing and are becomming more difficult to maintain as the site grows. . October 21, 2005 @ 7,029,891 Developed and posted a growth projection spread sheet and graph on the advertising page. Aproximately every three and a half years our hit rate increases by 1 million per year. We are now at two million per year. We should be at three million per year at the end of 2009. Updated the new RR-spike FAQ and linked it from the Junkyard Steels FAQ. Also archived the guru's page today. October 25, 2005 Added two German Anvil photos to the page on the same. November 1, 2005 @ 7,100,000 We have had 100,000 visitors in 14 days and 150,000 for the month of October. Some of this spike in traffic may have been due to our mention in Fabricator Magazine where they used my photos for the Uri Hofi article. The rest is returning to the current traffic average which is over 167,000 visitors per month. January 1, 2006 @ 7,465,897 March 1, 2006 @ 7,870,085 March 20, 2006 @ 8,000,000! We have had one million visitors since October 17, 2005 (155 days). This is 20 days earlier than the projection we made in October based on 7 years of traffic records. The average for that period was 6,451 visitors per day or 2.35 million per year. This is a traffic rate we did not expect to reach for another year. March 22, 2006 @ 8,016,000 Added new units to the popup conversions toolkit, square feet to meters, cubic inches to CM3 and cubic feet to M3. March 24, 2006 @ 8,030,000 Wrote an English Hundredweight calculator and linked it to the Mathematics, anvil weights and anvil selection pages. March 27, 2006 @ 8,050,000 Archived the 405th gurusden log. Early logs were monthly, then bi-weekly and are now weekly. April 7, 2006 @ 8,130,747 Added a handful of images to the home page random image and linked them to pages with large size pages. Added a Sawyers anvil to the Fisher Norris anvil page. Updated many of the banners on the Slack-Tub Pub. Posted a page with Gauntlet pattern pieces and photos. April 8 2006 @ 8,134,404 Updated the CSI anvilfire Hammer-In page and added directions to Ken's. April 11 2006 @ 8,161,475 Added a new story An Excursion by Gronk Pensmudge to the Story Page May 1, 2006 @ 8,262,713 Updated the MACHINERY'S HANDBOOK general review adding some small pieces of information and a paragraph about collectors prices. Stats show we had 100,000 visitors in 20 days. That is 150,000 per month. May 12, 2006 @ 8,322,193 Posted review of Al Cannella's 101 Metal Projects May 15, 2006 @ 8,338,040 Posted review of The Spruce Forge Manual of Locksmithing. Trying to catch up on old and NEW reviews as well as some standards. June 1, 2006 @ 8,425,353 That is 162,640 visits for May a spring record. Traffic usually drops off in good weather when folks are spending more time outdoors and in the shops. June 12, 2006 @ 8,477,243 Posted review of Forgotten Technology Video by Wallace Wallington. Posted review of Cathedral, Forge and Waterwheel by Gies & Gies. Posted review of Fire and Roses, Forging the Queens Rose Video by Hans Schlosser. June 14, 2006 @ 8,488,322 Posted review of Forge and Anvil DIY Projects by Alan Rogers. Also updated the Art of Blacksmithing review. That is 6 new reviews (total 61) and two updated this month. June 19, 2006 @ 8,500,000 That is 1/2 million visits to anvilfire in the last 3 months. That is a rate of two million visitors a year. This is down a little which is typical in late spring but is still in line with our predicted growth. June 24, 2006 @ 8,536,225 Posted review of Dona Meilach's newest book, Ironwork Today, Inside & Out and updated the review of her classic Decorative & Sculptural Ironwork. June 25, 2006 @ 8,540,108 Posted a review by Melissa Sullivan of Nancy Zastrow's book, Lives Shaped by Steel and updated another Dona Meilach book review. Even though the Zastrow review was written and images scanned by someone else it still took a full day to edit the images and setup the review. This is our 63rd book review. We also updated old reviews ocassionaly. The Machinery's Handbook review has been updated at least 4 times and I just updated a couple reviews' formats because they are linked to new reviews. July 4, 2006 @ 8,578,585 Posted two knife making book/cd reviews. David Boye's classic Step-by-step Knifemaking, You can do it! and J.D. Smith's cutting edge Advanced Damascus Patterning DVD and CD-ROM. Although both are about knife making they are the extreme ends of the subject. Boye's book is a very complete text on how-to from the beginning while Smith's digital production is one of the most advanced topics in knife making. Both were added to our Sword making resources list and include links to other reviews. These are our ninth and tenth reviews posted in less than 60 days. My goal is to catch up on book reviews as well as post reviews of many standards on my book shelf. July 25, 2006 @ 8,676,550 Posted delayed archives for Hammer-In April, May and June, gurusden for June 8 to July 24, a total of 9 archives. July 28, 2006 @ 8,691,201 Posted the 2006 ABANA Conference NEWS 41 pages! 200 images with pop-up enlargements! Brent Bailey in Peru, Off-Center Induction Forge, Impressions by Frank Turley. This edition of the NEWS used some semi-automated processes to generate pages that is much faster than hand coding every page. Improvements will be made in the system to help process our graphic intensive NEWS. If you see errors in our NEWS or can identify work and people drop us a line. Please note the page and Figure number (in faint grey). July 39, 2006 @ 8,695,000 Removed an Ex-advertiser from the banners and links. July 30, 2006 @ 8,699,799 Installed a new hybrid random banner system on the Slack-Tub Pub. It uses the same system I designed for the home page that corrects a browser "back arrow" bug . . . and then forgot. Besides fixing a bug it also made banner maintenance the same in the Pub as on the rest of anvilfire. If you notice any problem with the new system let us know. This hybrid system will replace the system on all the pages in the future. August 5, 2006 @ 8,727,734 Posted minor NEWS updates to the ABANA 2006 NEWS. Identified the ABANA hammer as made by Hank Knickmeyer and Tom Clark, the African mask repousse' as made in Africa and displayed by Brent Bailey. Also added some items to the index. Next edition of the NEWS is already in progress. September 1, 2006 @ 8,861,140 We had 160,000 visitors in August, averaging 5,161 unique visitors a day. Posted a new FAQ on the Law and Blacksmithing. This was in response to a letter I replied to and numerous posts in the past. Before posting this it had been viewed 8 times. I have added some information about taxes. I also added an alphabetical index to the top and bottom of the FAQs page to make it easier to navigate. September 4, 2006 @ 8,874,000 Posted 5 guru's den archives. Not sure how I got so far behind. September 25, 2006 @ 8,981,534 Posted an updated Temper Color chart with Steel Hardnesses. This chart has temper hardnesses of four common steels and a wider range of temperatures. This chart was inspired by a graph with similar data that was alas highly inaccurate. This anvilfire chart is as accurate as the most modern data will allow. September 27, 2006 @ 8,993,883 Updated Heat Treating FAQ to the above temper chart (others will be changed as they are found). Added links to the Riveting iForge demos to each other and to the Riveting Force Chart and a Math index link to the layout and squares iForge demo. We are a day and a half or less from the 9 million visitor mark. September 28, 2006, 9AM EST @ 9,000,000! We passed this mark within a few weeks of when we predicted this a year ago. We will pass the 10 million visitor mark early next spring. November 1, 2006 @ 9,187,986 November 2, 2006 @ 9,194,238 Posted 11 archives for guru's den and hammer-in. Sorry for the delay. November 8, 2006 @ 9,229,079 Posted a new iForge demo on swage blocks. This is a duplicate of an article written for SwageBlocks.com. More demos' coming. December 5, 2006 @ 9,374,734 Calendar of Events is open to post 2007 events. January 1, 2007 @ 9,512,158 We end the year with over 9.5 million hits and over 160,000 for the month of December. We have archived 452 forum pages. We started 2006 with 7,465,897 accumulated visits to the pages for a total of 2,046,261 for the year. Those are actual individual visits, not server hits. February 1, 2007 @ 9,700,000 188,000 visitors in January. February 2, 2007 @ 9,700,000 Groundhog Day NEW NEW NEW! Launched a new anvilfire design. It is still in progeress but will cure a bunch of problems the site has had.
March 1, 2007 @ 9,869,188 One year ago we reported 7,870,085 visits to anvilfire. That is almost exactly TWO MILLON visits to anvilfire in the past year! We continue to update old pages to the new design and menu system. March 10, 2007 @ 9,916,100 Twisted Bars . com : We have a new sponsor. These folks make twisted bar, embossed bar and textured bar for use in decorative iron work. You can save yourself a lot of effort and a lot of wear and tear on you and your equipment by starting here. Small shops without power equipment can produce "forged all over" look work competitively. Great for small projects too! March 11, 2007 @ 9,927,000 / 66,005 Posted two NEW video DVD reviews of the two new Big BLU Productions videos. Forging Solutions : Hand Hammer Techniques Vol.1 with Amit Har-lev and Forging Solutions : Power Hammer Techniques Vol.1 also with Amit Har-lev. March 15, 2007 @ 9,946,095 / 66,069 Posted two new FAQs, Hammer Eye Dimensions and Drilling Coolants/Lubricants. In 12 days we will hit the 10,000,000 mark. WHO will be our 10,000,000th visitor? March 16, 2007 @ 9,951,336 / 66,090 Rebuilt the AnvilCAM for this weekend's BiG BLU Hammer-In. If you cannot make it, check the CAM. Updated the indexes and menus on most of the system. Made a lot of untested changes trying to get all the pages working properly under the new header system. Due to caching in some browsers the site may seem unstable. If something doesn't work right try clearing your browser cache. March 20, 2007 @ 9,972,538 / 66,171 Added a "Double Arch" anvil to the Fisher-Norris page @ 1966. 10,000,000: March 25, 2007 at 9:00 PM EDT! That is the accumulated traffic from 9 years (8 years 11 months) of service to the blacksmithing community. In April of 2008 we will celebrate our 10th anniversary and 12 to 13 million visits to anvilfire.com! In that time I have answered an estimated 30,000 to 36,000 questions on-line and at least 2,000 via e-mail. The total answered is probably double that. In that time to run anvilfire I have had 3PC's, all rebuilt at least once or twice in their life (I just rebuilt the newest from a hard drive crash). There have been three laptops for use in the field. I've worn out one digital camera and I am looking to replace the second that was bought less than 2 years ago. We've also gone through 3 commercial printers, a VCR, video capture device, assorted scanners and other peripherals. I'm driving my 5th used vehicle. I've traveled thousands of miles every year for anvilfire including flying to Calgary Canada and Flagstaff AZ. We have reported on every ABANA convention in our NEWS since 1998. We are now on our 4th dedicated server and need to move to a 5th (a huge undertaking, since we also host dozens of other sites to help defray costs). We have had 24 key industry sponsors several of which have been with us from day one. Centaur Forge under the late Bill Pieh was the first, then Bruce Wallace and Bull Hammers (now Pheonix Hammers) then Kayne and Son (now BlacksmithsDepot). The Kaynes have been our longest continuous advertiser. CSI was launched in 2000 as a support group for anvilfire and had as many as 200 members at one time. CSI memberships kept anvilfire afloat for several years. CSI officialy became a non-profit last year. The goal was to develop enough revenue through memberships to properly support anvilfire. We should hit the 20,000,000 mark in less than 5 years. We have a 10th anniversary coming up next year. Maybe we will have a 13 millionth visitor contest then! April 28, 2007 @ 10,166,419 / 66,802 Added a catalog page image to the Fisher-Norris page. Added a vise photo and diagram to the vise FAQ Posted March and April Archives to date. May 1, 2007 @ 10,178,379 June 1, 2007 @ 10,312,600 / 67,298 134,221 visitors in the last 30 days. Added wrought iron sample images to the wrought iron FAQ. Posted some junk CI anvil photos. Updated the travel FAQ on passport information. Most of the month of May was taken up recovering from a second computer crash in as many months. We had a hard drive failure in late March. Luckily we only lost a few statistics files and current correspondence. Cost to retrieve data from a so-called Raid backup was significant. Then we had a main board failure caused by a small secondary cooling fan on whats called the Northbridge Chip. The rebuid did not go well as numerous parts had compatibility problems delaying final assembly. Now we have a mostly new PC at double the cost of new. . . Hopefully we are now back on track. This was our main workstation. Anvilfire is maintained from three PCs. The workstation, the old backup and billing PC and a laptop that is used primarily in the field but doubles as an emergency main PC. These are in addition to the rented server. June 13, 2007 @ 10,360,00 (late) Posted an article about the Costa Rica Tire Hammer on the JYH page. Also updated the NC-JYH page with some more photos. June 14, 2007 @ 10,363,687 Posted an article about Built up DIY Power Hammer Anvils and links to JYH building articles on the JYH catalog page. Also updated the NEW CR-JYH page with links and a third detail page. June 15, 2007 @ 10,365,922 (early AM) Posted 4 more articles in the anvil series and replaced one, also updated some of the links. Anvil Radius Anvils from Skeleton Scrap Styles and Preferences RR-Rail anvils This is an on-going update of all our anvil articles as well as additions. June 18, 2007 @ 10,381,255 (Midnight) Posted our new Index to Anvil Making Articles including a half DOZEN all new articles and some that had been posted but hard to find. It includes a growing Gallery of DIY anvils and updates to most of our anvil series. June 21, 2007 @ 10,391,052 Updated the anvil making articles with a sketchbook of my anvil making ideas. Also updated several articles with new illustrations including photographs of Daniel Boettger's Medieval Pentagonal anvil. This has been a bigger project than it was supposed to be and is still not quite complete. June 22, 2007 @ 10,396,692 Added four more drawings to my Anvil Sketch Book and one to the RR-rail anvils article. June 26, 2007 @ 10,412,894 Posted an illustrated article on making swage blocks Fabricating a Swage Block on the anvil making page. June 28, 2007 @ 10,420,000 Posted an article about Patrick Pelgroms Self Contained hammer on the JYH page. Includes a short video! Will rotate as soon as I find the right software. . . June 29, 2007 @ 10,422,404 In our continuing update of our anvil series the iForge article on stands has been added to the list links. In recent months we have added 14 new anvil articles and updated numerous others. This includes the guru's anvil sketchbook with 16 anvil making drawings. Late @ 10,425,000 Posted a diagram of how Patrick Pelgroms' self contained hammer operates. July 15, 2007 @ 10,480,00 Posted the date for the anvilfire 10th anniversary hammer-in on the Calendar (April 18-20, 2007). We are lining up demonstrators and events now. Let us know if you want to take part. 2008 CSI/anvilfire Hammer-In August 13, 2007 @ 10,550,000 Posted an article a diagram of a water bellows in the guru's den. Would like to do an article on same but hate to have to build one. . . Maybe for the 10th Anniverssary. August 31, 2007 @ 10,669,524 Posted an article on building a Woodworker's Bench under FAQ's September 1, 2007 @ 10,671,223 September 6, 2007 @ 10,692,128 Posted an article about the Chinese workholding bench and "Sen" sent to us by Sean Walker. Also linked it to the woodworking bench article. October 1, 2007 @ 10,800,855 November 1, 2007 @ 10,942,500 Trying something new. Signed up for ebay AuctionAds. November 2, 2007 @ 10,947,297 Posted some 21 overdue archive pages of the guru's den and Hammer-In (June to October). This makes over 500 forum archives pages! We should hit the 11 million visitor mark by mid November and 12 million by our 10th anniversary! November 13, 2007 @ 11,000,000 We have quietly passed the Eleven MILLION visitor mark. On March 25th we passed the ten million mark. That is one million visits every 7.75 months or 1.55 million visits per year. The ebay auctionads have not performed well and the ad server is quite buggy. At least 3 times the system has stopped serving keyword ads and defaulted to so called "hot" items most of which are of little interest to our readers. . . The experiment will continue for a while. December 1, 2007 @ 11,076,000 We have caught up with out archiving and continue to test AuctionAds. December 4, 2007 We have removed ALL AuctionAds from all our pages (including archives). Ads with inappropriate content (sexualy targeted products) were served rather than the key word ads as stated by AuctionAds. This combined with very poor performance (1/10th the revenue google provides for the same space) forced us to close our AuctionAds account. We may try this again going direct to ebay but not through an intermediate. January 1, 2008 @ 11,214,590 - The beginning of our 11th calendar year. 1,702,432 counted visits for the year. This is the beginning of the 11th calendar year of anvilfire.com! Conceived in December 1997, registered in February 1998 and launched in March 1998. We've had over 11,214,590 visits since adding counters in June of 1998. Our 10th anniversary will be celebrated in April 2009! Happy NEW year! The Calendar of Events page is now ready to accept events for the full year and the archives are all updated. February 1, 2008 @ 11,357,600 143,000 counted visits for the month. Getting ready for the CSI Hammer-In and Auction! |
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