I have just previewed Darryl Nelson's Bear's Head DVD that he has for sale. It was quite good. I am trying to get him to post a clip to YouTube. I'll post a thread if that happens.

It shows both the three dimensional and two dimensional bear's heads each in a step by step progression.
Each step is described (showing the tooling used) cold on the anvil. A close up of the actual forging follows each description.

There is a section on tooling.

The DVD runs for about 1 hour.

Darryl can be contacted at
[email protected]

I show some of my efforts after taking a class from Darryl below.

Nice bear heads, I gotta get me a video, I gotta try that, oooooo I gotta make me a bear head, hmmmm what size stock? what chisels, eye makers, oooooo this is gonna be funnnnn, thanks, now I have a new direction to fixate.

Here is the URL for the YouTube clip for Darryl's Bear's Head;

YouTube - Bear's Head YouTube

Very nice details on the head. What is the size of it?

very nice bear, and very lifelike too... I like it!

The Bear's Head shown in the picture is from 35mm or 1 1/2 inch square stock.

Darryl does a much better job.

You should see his Bison, Wolf, Ram and Lynx heads.

This is a Lynx I made in Darryl's class

Sorry here is the Lynx head.

That is really cool pics.
Mark,
My mentor ,wayne coe, told me about your forge welding video on you tube, I just wanted to tell you how AWESOME that was. You made/make forge welding look easy, and it aint!!!!
Also on your site I noticed your First book has some really interresting stuff to me. Book 1 I was weondering if the differnt pictures/projects are differnt chapters in the book and if the book tells how to make the tool, and how to use it??


Chris

Chris,
Yes - The book details tooling and projects - chapter by chapter.

Okay! I may order one very soon. Also your going to be one of the demostartors at madison right?

That is correct.

Darryl is a great instructor, I took his forge welding class this fall and anticipate taking an animal head class from him in the coming year. Thanks for providing the link to the youtube video Mark, did you also edit the DVD to create the youtube video?

Larry,
I helped Darryl with the video and extracted a couple of sections for YouTube.
I posted them on my channel as Darryl's internet service is a bit slow for him to create his own account.

Howdy Mark,
Darryl didn't show us how to do the Lynx when we were there a couple of months ago. Bummer... How's the book coming? You going to be at Weaverville this year? Well, have a good one mate. See you later.
Mike Limb

ya i like Darryls bear heads ! I have taken his anamal head class years ago .. might get the video as a refresher ! good post!

Hammerkid,
I bought Mark's book and it is well written with lots of pictures that really clarify what he writes. It was worth every penny.

Howdy Mark,
How's the book coming? You going to be at Weaverville this year? See you later.
Mike Limb

Mike, I'm writing the book at the moment. I taught a couple of classes at Darryl's this November and we had a few days to play with his video. It was a nice distraction.

Darryl will be coming to Weaverville in 2010 to do a demo/workshop.

I'll see you there in March. Regards to MikeH

Sent off an email to get more info on pricing and such... Truly awesome.

I think Darryl is charging in the $35 dollar range. Plus S/H and the Governors cut if you live in WA.