Lead Anvil

A Lead Anvil is a crafting station used mainly to forge weapons and armor. Most of its recipes require metal bars, although is also used to make some without, such as the Jungle tier of equipment. It has an alternate ore version in the Iron Anvil, which functions identically to it. If your world has Lead Ore as an alternative to Iron Ore, then you can either craft a Lead Anvil, or buy an Iron Anvil from the merchant for. These are vital crafting stations for most of the game, as they are used to make items from every tier up to Cobalt and Palladium, after which it must be replaced by a Mythril Anvil or an Orichalcum Anvil. Whenever there is a recipe with an Iron Anvil as its crafting station, the Lead Anvil can be used instead.

Trivia

 * In reality, a lead anvil would not keep its structure very long, due to the low Mohs hardness (1.5) and melting point (600 K) of pure lead.