Mine got beaten to hell in shipping. It was sticking out of the side of its all but shattered box when I got it. Some rust and a chipped end, but all of that was almost certainly the delivery folks hating a heavy box. I did find used anvils of higher quality and similar price locally after the fact, and found it at a lower price than on the vevor site later as well so that was a bummer. So maybe shop around a bit. It's perfectly serviceable from my unskilled perspective though. I got it to learn a little smithing so my opinion on quality isn't the most reliable. But by my estimate it tested at about 70 or 80% of the ball bearing bounce height a blindingly expensive anvil produced at literally a tenth of the cost. So I'm still perfectly content and won't ship it back even with its damage it incurred.