Forged In Fire joke

The show is, Simplified! As mentioned you can watch it with the whole family and that's a good thing!

I've had more than a few of my Sharpening & Custom knife customers mention the show to me. They watch it with their kids and future collectors and makers is a GOOD thing!

I would like to be on Ground to Glory! But the producers haven't contacted me yet! :D
 
typicalpest said:
Your correct. While I'm here would you like some help refining your grinding abilities. I have some great tutorials showing how to keep your plunge grinds straight . Now that is awesomeness
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Would love to see these tutorials.
 
I'd like to see more of the judges saying very hurtful things about the contestants work with a good push in on the resulting dream crushing.

Just saying.
 
Salem Straub said:
There are also some shop tour videos, which can be found at History.com or on youtube. Here's mine:

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Burt Foster, Ben Abbot, and Matthew Parkinson have them too.
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Jesus, I'm very jealous of your shop and it's location Salem. I'm planning to build one of those metal shop buildings too. God I love those big old Wilton vises.
 
Dfunk1210 said:
I'm not a fan. Rushing smiths while giving them random materials. And on top of that a panel slamming their mistakes made because they are being rushed. And when they allow the two finallists to work at home, it is to make some random obscure blade type.
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The panel hardly "slams" the competitors. :rolleyes:
 
Danke42 said:
I'd like to see more of the judges saying very hurtful things about the contestants work with a good push in on the resulting dream crushing.

Just saying.
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Yeah, and maybe instead of picking a winner at the end, they can just declare a tie and force the final two makers to an old fashioned death match using their newly finished pieces. Winner take all.

:D:rolleyes:
 
knife to a gunfight said:
Yeah, and maybe instead of picking a winner at the end, they can just declare a tie and force the final two makers to an old fashioned death match using their newly finished pieces. Winner take all.

:D:rolleyes:
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You say you're in IN but you're talking Hollywood. Give that man a show!
 
typicalpest said:
What they should keep doing is referring to everything as weapons and things that kill or keel as the venacular may be. That certainly does the knife industry a great service.

Typical
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The show is about forging weapons. Not utility or hunting knives. The bladesmiths that normally make normal knives as tools (and art) are challenged to make a weapon from history, because they are large and a challenge to make, and exciting to see tested. It's a competition, not an educational documentary.
 
I like the show and watch it when I can, but there are aspects of it I would like to change-
1. I would like to see more testing. Maybe simplify the test setups but do more tests. And if there are 2 competitors and one knife breaks, test the other one anyway without letting that person win by default.
2. Show more detailed closeups of the finished blades. They show quick glimpses but it is hard to see what has been made.
3. Don't put hidden tricks in the materials by having things like 24 hour epoxy on the shelf.
4. Some of the home challenge blades seem pretty strange to me, but I suppose that just makes them a bigger challenge for the competitors and they usually manage to do well anyway.

I wondered about the tempering but read on these forums about how it was done a long time ago. It would help if they had mentioned it on the show but I don't think it is a big deal either way.
 
Bakers scream at "cake boss"
Cooks scream at "hells kitchen"
Knifemaker scream at "forged in fire"

You are in good company.

Sadly a hammer in would not last one season for good reasons.
 
I have one question. What's the timeliness after for the makers to procure material? Do they just need to order a bunch of stuff that might work if they get that far? Is that why some episodes everyone is using old car springs for the "blades forged in their unique style", just because they need a chunk of huge steel?

It would be cool if there were more testing as well as standardized testing so that blade design might be more task specific.

It would also be cool if they toned down the reality thing just a bit or if not took the time to point out how they were making the task challenging. Like a big thermometer saying that the shop floor is up to 120 deg. Maybe better backgrounds on the smith's with commentary explaining why a task is going to challenge someone. It seems like that might build excitement while not reflecting badly on very good smith's. I feel like some guys might have something to loose as far as business reputation goes just because they were handed a crappy piece of steel.
 
I enjoy the show and have a great deal of admiration for anyone willing to be on it. To appear before a national audience and not really know what you will be doing takes a lot of guts. Sometimes it's make a knife out of a car, or a gun, or make a knife with a fuller, etc. Sometimes the electricity is turned off. The lights are bright, (hard to see hardening colors) it's also hot. One participant said it was 180 degrees between the forges. There is the time limit. There is the knowledge that the whole world is watching what you do.
Then if you make the final cut you get five days to make something you probably have never made before, and probably aren't set up to make it in your shop. Again, the whole world is watching.
Like I said, I admire anyone willing to go through this.
 
skillgannon said:
I have one question. What's the timeliness after for the makers to procure material? Do they just need to order a bunch of stuff that might work if they get that far? Is that why some episodes everyone is using old car springs for the "blades forged in their unique style", just because they need a chunk of huge steel?

It would be cool if there were more testing as well as standardized testing so that blade design might be more task specific.

It would also be cool if they toned down the reality thing just a bit or if not took the time to point out how they were making the task challenging. Like a big thermometer saying that the shop floor is up to 120 deg. Maybe better backgrounds on the smith's with commentary explaining why a task is going to challenge someone. It seems like that might build excitement while not reflecting badly on very good smith's. I feel like some guys might have something to loose as far as business reputation goes just because they were handed a crappy piece of steel.
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I don't know about the show, but I know in my shop, I always have some 1/4"x2x48 chunks of W2, 1" W1 drill rod, or 3/8"x2x36" 80crv2 in stock. I believe most smiths are in the same boat. the only challenge I wouldn't have been able to make from in stock material would have been the hunga munga, but would be able to have the material within 24h of ordering it.
 
EVERYBODY ON THIS THREAD!! If you haven't heard of "Man at Arms: Reforged" you don't know what a blacksmithing tv show is! They make LEGIT badass blades and weapons and they do it RIGHT and make some amazing stuff, they show every part of the crafting and they are really artists, not novelty replica manufacturers. I love it, watch it every night, it's on YouTube, I don't know if it was on any cable stations but its an online series I think. Seriously, I can't imagine anybody here not liking this show.
 
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