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Forged animal head's

Gerald Boggs - Monday, February 9, 2009 - 9:21pm
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In January, I took a class with Darryl Nelson. He's a blacksmith out of Washington state who forges wonderful animal heads. He also, generously, teaches the techniques. Photo's are rather poor, sorry. the bear's head is mine, the ram's head is Mr. Nelson.
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Guess what???

SteelyJan - Monday, February 9, 2009 - 9:41pm

I like your bear head much better, there is a lot of detail in it...it's awesome....wow did you learn a thing or two....SteelyJan


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Thanks SteelyJan That was my

Gerald Boggs - Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - 8:49am

Thanks SteelyJan

That was my fifth try. The hardest part, if you make no mistakes, is keeping the snout from getting too long and skinny.
The class itself, was pretty intense. It was at the John Campbell folk school in North Carolina. Get up, have breakfast, forge, eat lunch, forge, eat dinner, forge until time for sleep. But that's really the normal pace for a lot of these classes. I forgot to mention the size. For the bear, the bar stock was 1 1/2" and the Ram, it was 3/4" Gerald Boggs


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animal heads

lin - Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - 10:06am

Very nice work, Gerald! I love the detail and all the teeth on the bear. Lin


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Paula's picture

Great forging!!!

Paula - Saturday, February 14, 2009 - 11:14am

Great forging!!! Congrats
Paula
Guthrie, MN


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Jim Cotter's picture

Just make the ears longer on

Jim Cotter - Monday, February 16, 2009 - 1:20pm

Just make the ears longer on Bear2 and you have a perfect wolf.

Nice work


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Thanks all. A wolf's head

Gerald Boggs - Tuesday, February 17, 2009 - 1:50pm

Thanks all. A wolf's head was one of the heads Mr. Nelson demonstrated, but will all the details that went in to each animal head, I decided to concentrate on the Bear's and Ram's head. I did take lots of notes :-)

Fair Winds
Gerald


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Woooeee That is taking

Will Jones - Monday, February 23, 2009 - 5:02pm

Woooeee
That is taking forged animal heads to a whole new level!Hard to believe they're not(very good)castings!
Will Jones


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Thank Will. One of the

Gerald Boggs - Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 8:28am

Thank Will. One of the things I found incredible watching Darryl Nelson work, is he does no stock removal or filing. He starts with a solid bar and starts pushing it around until he has a animal. I wish the photos I took at the class had came out. The Lynx head he did was wonderful.
Gerald Boggs


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