Question for anyone watching forged in fire

Greenberg Woods said:
HEy guys, as you may know I have been supplying Forged in Fire with handle materials for a little over a month now, and they just put in a new order with me.

I dont watch the show anymore, simply dont have the time. Can anyone who does tell me if they have seen kingwood, cocobolo, African blackwood, or stabilzied wood that DOESNT break on the show?

If so, that was from me!
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Just curious, what makes your wood stabilized by K&G any better(“doesn’t break”) than anyone else’s wood stabilized by K&G? Is it the way you cut and sand it?
Thanks
 
It irritates me that they dont show or mention the heat treatment. The show is filmed in two days with an overnight heat-treatment. They seem to want hide that fact for some reason. The contestants show up the next day in the same shirt they wore the first day, all clean and dry....I wonder how many people new to knife making watch the show and think there knives are heat treated after they simply quench?
 
brandoak said:
It irritates me that they dont show or mention the heat treatment. The show is filmed in two days with an overnight heat-treatment. They seem to want hide that fact for some reason. The contestants show up the next day in the same shirt they wore the first day, all clean and dry....I wonder how many people new to knife making watch the show and think there knives are heat treated after they simply quench?
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I think you mean tempering. Knives sitting in the oven for hours doesnt make good tv.
 
In the later seasons they do mention that the knives were tempered overnight. They've also disqualified blades in the first round for a bad heat treatment. FiF is not an instructional show on how to make knives. In fact, they state at the beginning of each episode "do not try this at home".
 
Thadbow said:
Just curious, what makes your wood stabilized by K&G any better(“doesn’t break”) than anyone else’s wood stabilized by K&G? Is it the way you cut and sand it?
Thanks
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Because the source before me was not K&G stabilized. It was cheap stabilized wood from masurcraft, done in house by them and its not very strong.

I use k&g for my stabilizing, which is the difference between the woods.
 
One guy couldn't get the hang of stacked leather handles. Because time was running out and he couldn't glue each piece one by one, he simply drenched the entire handle with clear epoxy.
 
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