This is a must read. It is a little on the longer side, but it had me rolling. Russia was my favorite. What is yours?
You buy a German anvil. It contains 83 moving parts and requires winding twice a day. It’s forged from excellent steel, holds tolerances across all three striking faces to within three microns, includes a beautifully indexed horn-adjustment mechanism nobody asked for, and…
— Daniel Franke (@dfranke) May 5, 2026