Forged In Fire

Is there any criteria they use to choose the contestants ? - if it has been discussed already, apologies- I missed it.
David
 
David, I believe as with most TV/ Hollywood projects they used a "shotgun" approach in basically emailing or calling every single person that came up when they googled knifemaker or blacksmith. Those that answered were considered an option and those that didn't respond in a timely fashion disregarded. After that it is typically a judgment call of the producers of who is picked, the biggest thing they are looking for is a sell able "character", I think it's safe to say that since most of us are characters in our own right :) that that wasn't an issue and that they chose contestants to have a balance of skills and other personality traits. Hopefully one of the contestants will chime in and be able to give us more specifics, but in general that is how they choose anyone for a television program for "reality" TV. I know towards the end of the casting call they were casting their net so wide that they were emailing people that had never made a knife in their life but had simply made iron jewelry....
 
Is there going to be a 'Grand Champion'? Sorry if this has been asked.....wondering if they'd take the segment Winners and have a $50K episode?
 
Be interesting as how they would format the second season as they have lost the element of surprise they had on the first season smiths
 
I thought that Episode 8 was even better than its predecessors. I enjoyed the show very much and was a really good job by all of the makers. It takes a lot of guts for maker to put himself out there like that on cable TV, and I am glad that so many were willing to do that.
 
i'd like it if they did it in a format similar to top chef. Granted space would be an issue. Have a core group of people, and some challenges people have the same material, and some challenges it's contestants choice. Get to know the makers a little more personally and see some of their past work and hear where they come from and their inspirations.

Flesh it out a bit more rather than every episode we get a random new makers. It was a fun watch. There's nothing like it on, so it was fun to see the craft out there. I would have loved to see a whole season of Ray Kirk :D
 
The more i watch this show the more i actually like it. To me its an entertaining premise but not one to take seriously. And due to time constraints and tempering processes being long and boring I have to assume the show is dumbed down for the general public. So when i see continuity issues or false representation of how certainthing are made and in certain time frames i look at it as the necessary evil of taking this concept to television.
 
I used to watch "Gold Rush" and once in a while the producers aire a special where they would sit people down and film them talking about the reality of their lives and things that can't be covered on the show itself. I think it would be interesting to hear from all the judges and a good handful of the contestants. We all know that most all of the men on the show can make a knife at home, I'd like to see more of their shops and get to know some them better.
 
Looks like the moro kris episode was the season finale, shame the series was so short. Is there any word that season 2 will happen?
 
I'm liking it more on the rewatch. I would like for them to tell the bladesmiths if the tests will be chopping or slicing focused.
 
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