Forged in Fire: Knife or Death

Nathan the Machinist said:
Competitors did not know what sort of challenges they would face, considering the knives were being described as "Weapons" it was reasonable to assume that some stabbing would be necessary.
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/Paul Harvey...and that's the rest of the story.

Understood - we're debating necessity with the benefit of hindsight.
 
lanternnate said:
I’m rather surprised nobody simply stabbed the crate straight up through the bottom panel. I would think a nice hole directly in the bottom would theoretically drain out the contents nicely.
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I was wondering why nobody touched the bottom as well. I think the hole would still have to b a certain size due to the size and "pack" of the material, but I'm sure it could have helped quite a bit.
 
After watching the competition... if the challanges remain the same I would go with something like this..

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The way they named the trial implies to me it will remain the same but that said I'm sure all the episodes have already been filmed and if they do another season there would certainly be changes to prevent exactly what we're doing here: gaming the system.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
If your blade is too long or too heavy you're going to struggle with things like falling watermelons...
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I wonder why no one just held their blade parallel to the ground under the tube where the watermelons fell. No hand-eye coordination challenge, get low to the ground to allow time to adjust position and for the melon to reach a higher speed. Just had to expose red flesh.
 
I watch FIF and I watched Knife or Death. Personally, I thought Bill Goldberg could dial it back a bit and Travis Wuertz could've had a bigger role in his testing. I don't think competitors were truly aware of what the challenges were or what physical exertion was required. If they were, I think they would've had more suitable blades and been in better condition. I've never done a chopping competition but I know I'm not in shape for this one. Like everyone else here, I thought about a Knife or Death competition blade. I like Kuraki's design but my thoughts got a bit wilder than that. I thought about an elongated TOPS Tom Brown Tracker-type of blade but instead of saw teeth on the back, a sharp edge, and hand-and-a-half handle. The front part of the edge would be convex ground for the harder chopping, a point for any stabbing applications, and a flat grind closer to the handle to preserve sharpness for slicing. And about six months of training so I'd be able to swing it with either hand.
 
A forward lanyard was required on the course.
That in itself limits the ability to swiftly rotate the knife from one edge to another.
Even competitors with double edge swords did not switch sides, they competed with one edge only.

There were a lot of rules for each station.
Some of the rules were even adjusted as the filming progressed from one episode to the next and they figured out what did and did not work.
Since holding your knife stationary under the melons would make it easier, I'd bet there was a rule against that.
 
This stuff is taking off. The video that everyone has seen of Big Chris in comp was shown in full this week by some comedian on the comedy network (Tosh.0). He then did a mock course of silly events with a butter knife.
 
Big Chris said:
A forward lanyard was required on the course.
That in itself limits the ability to swiftly rotate the knife from one edge to another.
Even competitors with double edge swords did not switch sides, they competed with one edge only.

There were a lot of rules for each station.
Some of the rules were even adjusted as the filming progressed from one episode to the next and they figured out what did and did not work.
Since holding your knife stationary under the melons would make it easier, I'd bet there was a rule against that.
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Well, that blows my strategy out of the water. Doubt I'll be able to compete, anyway. Y'all don't like Canadjuns in yer business for some reason.
 
I thought that was a lot of fun!
Cant wait to see the next one
 
12345678910 said:
What do you think ?

Cutting competitions for TV

removed (naughty, Count... tsk tsk tsk.)

Travis Wuertz makes an appearance

The chick is Nathan the Machinist's wife Jo
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I think the show bites!!! They should just keep their hands off of a good thing! Travis Wuertz just got on there so he could say "Your blade made the cut" and to take a few swings at a tatami mat. Seems kinda' pointless to me? I'vve seen one episode, but I won;'t waste my time to watch another. Just my $0.02
Thanks.
Two Feathers
 
I enjoyed the show, I told my daughter (she is 18 and also a fan of FIF, can't watch an episode without her) they should go after the bottom of the crates and I wondered why all the competitors cut at the fish belly to spine, doesn't it make more since to go spine to belly?

Love the designs in this thread though, would do well in what we have seen so far in the competition.
 
What I found slightly comical was when one guys blade broke at the tang and he seamed all upset. “I paid for this knife” my first though was you did not pay enough. It did not look like it was that well made in the first place.
 
So am i wrong in thinking you can use both sides of a double edged blade? Have the rules evolved to disallow that? You can still use a forward lanyard and spin the handle over.
 
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