Thoughts on Forged in fire

Just catching up- for anyone who doesn't have a TV, for two bucks you can get it on Amazon instant viewing.
Skip Starbucks, make a cup of Folgers, and have a fun hour.
 
The sound editing was almost kung fu movie like at times (kinda liked it) making it obvious that they did a little adding. Which to me shows that they are certainly trying to make improvements as they go. Maybe even in some degree to our feedback. If I were the producer, I'd be googling it. Plus there was a casting call on here.

Bodog, this show was not made just for us. It is made to suit a broad audience and guess who some of that audience is? Kids. My son gets this big goofy smile on his face every time that guy utters his catch phrases. Kind of like how Jar Jar Binks was added to the second batch of Star Wars movies. He wasn't added for the nerds. Unlike Jar Jar, Doug Marcaida is a well known martial artist with a broad range of disciplines. As stated previously, I like weapons and small arms of all types and he has some interesting videos worth checking out. The persona he demonstrates on the show is consistent with the videos I've seen. Seems like a pretty good guy and teacher to me. The host kinda reminds me of the guy that hosted Top Shot, rugged "mans man" straight from central casting. The regular Joe that can ask the experts questions for the audience's benefit.

It is what it is, modern TV programming where they don't show news on the news channels, don't play music on the music channels, and don't show history on the history channels. I still enjoyed it. And it keeps getting better. Was that a basket hilted rapier glimpsed in the opening? I sure hope so.
 
Well, they've obviously started off showing us the worst performances and getting better every week. Last nights blades were all very nice looking blades after 6 hours. No wall hangers with antler bolted on. I can't wait to see how JD Smith, ABS MS, performs in the next episode. I've watched him crank out a really nice blade in about 2 hours at Ashokan. It's the one he gave to Sam Salvati.
 
You had to know that when Dave could straighten his sword in the vice the heat treat might be off. I know him, I am sure he knew. Jess
 
The smiths last night showed their skills much better. The steel was identified, and the process of making a block of W2 into a blade was much better shown and explained. They even roughly explained a hamon and what made a good one. Sadly, they pronounced it wrong most of the time. A blade hamon is pronounced "Ha-moan". The Hamon proniunced "Ha-mun" or "Hay-mun" is the name of a Bible guy that literally was "hoist by his own petard". When asked how the word is pronounced, I often say - "Is Tokyo pronounced Tuh-Key-uh , or Bocho pronounced Buh chuh ?"

Anyway, the show was much better. No blade failure drama and "I don't know what to do?" shots. The knives were all good, and the winning sword would take a prize at any knife show.
 
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Problem with watching it online until it is a few weeks old is they want to direct you to a third party site and you have to "register". The sites that want to know your provider does not have Cox listed? Other online sites want from $2-$3 to watch. The YouTube videos are all pulled right away now due to the new rules.
I haven't figured out if this is something I can watch for free through Amazon Prime. Anyone watch it that way?
 
I really enjoyed this episode. When the one judge (Dave Baker) was using Dave's sword, hacking away at the first bone it looked like the sword almost came back and caught him in the face. Maybe my depth perception was off but it looked close.
 
Its a good show getting better. Will Willis aka Whisky Whisky is a good guy, former US Army Ranger, Para Rescue, been watching his show Triggers, and before that he had a mission based show, his part in this show isn't that Great but as with all that are involved with this project, they have my respect and admiration. They've earned it one way or another.
 
I did a search for the show, and I read the first page of this thread. I was horrified that you guys hated the show. Fast forward to page 13. Nice to see it's catching on. I've been waiting to see some names off the forum. Does anyone know any of the judges?
 
stacy e. Apelt - bladesmith said:
the smiths last night showed their skills much better. The steel was identified, and the process of making a block of 52100 into a blade was much better shown and explained. They even roughly explained a hamon and what made a good one. Sadly, they pronounced it wrong most of the time. A blade hamon is pronounced "ha-moan". The hamon proniunced "ha-mun" or "hay-mun" is the name of a bible guy that literally was "hoist by his own petard". When asked how the word is pronounced, i often say - "is tokyo pronounced tuh-key-uh , or bocho pronounced buh chuh ?"

anyway, the show was much better. No blade failure drama and "i don't know what to do?" shots. The knives were all good, and the winning sword would take a prize at any knife show.
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navihawk said:
I did a search for the show, and I read the first page of this thread. I was horrified that you guys hated the show. Fast forward to page 13. Nice to see it's catching on. I've been waiting to see some names off the forum. Does anyone know any of the judges?
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I recognized J Neilson from some old video I had

He was a long haired youngin at the time.




Did you notice, the second place guy in this one stamped his name and JS in his first round blade ?
He's the first guy I've seen do that.
 
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Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith said:
Problem with watching it online until it is a few weeks old is they want to direct you to a third party site and you have to "register". The sites that want to know your provider does not have Cox listed? Other online sites want from $2-$3 to watch. The YouTube videos are all pulled right away now due to the new rules.
I haven't figured out if this is something I can watch for free through Amazon Prime. Anyone watch it that way?
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http://filehoot.com/?k=forged+in+fire&op=catalogue
 
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