Worked perfectly for my project. I needed a flat piece of steel I could use as an anvil for restore a knife sheath where the original "easy rivets" had decayed. I went with post and burr rivets and needed something long, hard and narrow as a stable platform to set the burr and peen the post stub. Worked like a charm. I beveled the edges of the bar so it wouldn't cut the leather, the sheath and bar rested on a bench block. I started with a 2lb baby sledge, later got a rivet peening hammer. I ran the bar into the sheath so I could attach the flap of the belt loop back into the back of the sheath.