How long things take: the machine about 2 weeks, bits and small tools about a week, and one item ships in a few days from a US warehouse. Here is whyMachine about 2 weeks. Why?
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Before you buy a small drill press

Two emails, then we leave you alone. The first is the five things worth checking before you spend $149 on a machine like this - the two that are worth paying more for, and the three that are not. It carries 7% off your first order. The second, a day later, is who should not buy one of these at all, and it carries 10%.

No countdown and no fake sale. The second code is simply the bigger one, and we would rather tell you that now than have you find out afterwards.
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  • Horned bench anvil, cast body with a polished flat face, square hardy hole and four bolt holes through the splayed feet
  • Side view of the horned bench anvil with dimensions: 128 mm overall, 75 mm face, 60 mm tall, 83 mm base, 6 mm feet
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Horned bench anvil, 128 mm

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Description

You are closing a rivet on a watch strap, or bringing a ring back round after it went oval in a drawer. A flat bench block gives you nothing to work around. A horn does.

What it is

A single casting, 128 mm end to end, with the top face ground and polished. That face is 75 by 26 mm. From it the horn tapers to a point, so a ring, a bezel or a bracelet link sits on a curve — you slide it along the horn until the curve matches the diameter you want, then hammer.

It stands 60 mm tall on a foot 83 by 41 mm and 6 mm thick, with four holes through it. Bolt it to the bench and it stops walking under the hammer. Left loose it still works, it just moves.

It weighs 600 g.

What it is for

Light forming work at the bench. Riveting, doming, straightening bent findings, rounding small rings, flattening sheet, tapping watch pins. The same bench as a mini drill press, a vise and a set of files.

Steel or cast iron, and why we are not saying

The maker's own material line reads "steel". The maker's own product banner, on the same listing, reads "high-hard cast iron". Both cannot be right, and we are not going to pick the flattering one for you.

What is not in dispute is the construction, which you can see in the photographs: a rough dark casting with a bright ground working face. That is how bench anvils in this class are built, and the face is the part that matters. Our sample arrives shortly. A file goes across that face the day it lands and this paragraph gets replaced with an answer.

What it will not do

This is a bench anvil, not a blacksmith's. 600 g absorbs a jeweller's hammer. It will not take a two-pound engineer's hammer, and hitting it that hard will mark the face.

The face is finished flat, not ground to a measured tolerance. If you need a certified flat reference for checking work, that is a surface plate, not this.

It ships as the bare anvil. No hammer, no bolts, and no wooden block — the maker sells a block-mounted version separately, and this is not it. If you see 770 or 780 g quoted for this casting anywhere, that figure is the anvil plus that block. On its own it is 600 g.

Shipping and returns

Free shipping in the US, 5 to 15 business days. Returns accepted for 30 days from delivery. Return postage is on you, the price of the item comes back in full.

Shipping is free on every US order, tracked, with no minimum. Orders are processed within 2 business days.

After that the number depends on what you bought, and each product page gives its own. The drill press takes about 2 weeks - we do not hold stock of it, so it comes from the workshop that builds it. Bits, punches and the small consumables take about 6 to 10 business days because those do ship from stock. The engraving ball vise and the cross-slide worktable leave a US warehouse and arrive in a few days - those two are the fast ones. If one order has several of these, they can arrive separately and you are not charged twice.

You get a tracking number by email as soon as the parcel is scanned, not before. A link that sits at label created for a few days is normal on this route.

Returns: 30 days from delivery, unused and in its packaging. Nothing is excluded - there is no rule here about sale items. If it arrived damaged or does not hold tolerance, we pay the return label. If you simply changed your mind, the return postage is yours and the price of the item comes back in full. Email support@arvonelle.com before sending anything back.

Will it plug into a US outlet? Yes. The drill press adapter comes with US blades on it, and no travel adapter is needed. This answer used to say the opposite, and it was true when it said so - we moved to a supplier who ships the US version and changed the page the same day. The listing states 100-240 V, so no converter either, but we have not put a meter on one ourselves and the machine's page says the same thing.

Can it mill? As it ships, no. Milling needs an ER11 collet spindle in place of the drill chuck, because side load pulls a bit out of a chuck. That spindle is a real part and we are sourcing it. Until it is on the shelf we do not sell collets or end mills either.

Do your vises fit the press? The ones meant for drilling do - the drill press vise and the brass vise on its XY stage bolt to the base as it comes. The bench vises do not bolt down and must not go under a spinning bit. The engraving ball vise, the toolmaker's vise and the cross-slide worktable are bench tools too, and the cross-slide is sized for a full-size drill press rather than this one. Every page says which it is.

Do I pay tax or duty? Sales tax is added at checkout where your state charges it, and the total you see is the total. You pay us nothing after the order. If a carrier ever asks you for a fee on a parcel from us, do not pay it - send us the notice first and we will sort it out with you.

What if a part breaks? For twelve months, tell us which part and we post a new one free. No return, no inspection, no photograph of the packaging.

Can I cancel? Yes, within 24 hours, no questions. After that it is usually already moving.

Why trust a shop you have never heard of? You should not, on our say-so. Check instead that every page tells you what the tool will not do, that each product carries its own delivery number, that we say which figures we measured and which we were told, and that when we get something wrong we say what the page used to say.

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If something goes wrong


If your order arrives damaged or defective, email support@arvonelle.com with your order number and a photo. We replace it or refund it — you don't have to argue for it.