Forged in fire, highs and lows

I thought J Nielson prepared the challenge test piece as well.

I thought the last few episodes were actually pretty interesting and was happy to see the increase in prize money. Even the Xbow I was ok with since it makes it look like a crazy contest and people aren't going to judge the quality of your knives based on not building a crossbow perfectly. I don't care that all of the sharpness test now seem to involve hard surfaces. It must be encouraging thicker edges and trying to highlight edge damage. It definitely feels like having a strategy is becoming more important than just making really good knives. I like it way better now than when they were screwing around with bad material in the pantry. I would love to see something like a "MASTERS" addition with highly complex builds and maybe a more complex testing system. Perhaps the blades have to go head to head on the knife or death course.

It could be fun to start a Fif strategy sticky.
 
samuraistuart said:
2 year old revival is pretty tame here. Seriously?
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I'm on several other forums regularly. It's interesting to find an old thread that has been dug up and make a comment like you and I have to see the amount of users who are completely oblivious to what is going on.
 
FROM THE MODERATOR:
Since the show is still going on and there are probably half a dozen active FIF threads, I see no issue with the discussion continuing. It clearly is a topic of interest.

The threads that I close are when someone resurrects an old thread with an answer that was long ago settled, or with advice to the OP that is no longer needed.

Example - Suggesting a supplier for a certain drill bit to someone drilling a hole three years ago is useless information.
 
Hot take: If you're not smelting your own ore, you're taking the easy way out. Hammering on a piece of bar stock isn't much different than cutting your knife profile out of a piece of sheet metal. The steel mill that rolled your bar stock has already done half the work for you!:rolleyes:
 
Drew Riley said:
Hot take: If you're not smelting your own ore, you're taking the easy way out. Hammering on a piece of bar stock isn't much different than cutting your knife profile out of a piece of sheet metal. The steel mill that rolled your bar stock has already done half the work for you!:rolleyes:
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Do you even magnetic north bro? o_O
 
Drew Riley said:
Hot take: If you're not smelting your own ore, you're taking the easy way out. Hammering on a piece of bar stock isn't much different than cutting your knife profile out of a piece of sheet metal. The steel mill that rolled your bar stock has already done half the work for you!:rolleyes:
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I'm sorry, but sometimes I suck at the internet. I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not. I think you are because of "!" and ":rolleyes:".
 
Ron Raducanu said:
I'm sorry, but sometimes I suck at the internet. I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not. I think you are because of "!" and ":rolleyes:".
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I'm being serious....o_O
:D Not really.
Actually, we've lost a little bit of context here as the original post was moved to Whine & Cheese shortly after I posted the above. You didn't miss much, other than your typical keyboard warrior starting a brand new BF account to complain about FIF contestants, wax eloquent about how easy forging is, and then he chose to single out another maker by telling him that cutting knives out of "sheet metal" was easy because the steel maker has already made half your knife for you.
 
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