Yelling at the tv - forged in fire

Just watched it.

Psssh, not really that different then every single other forged on fire.

I did not yell at the tv, I wanted to take bets on how many fingers he lost.
 
kuraki said:
Well, it was the "rookie edition." I thought the end result was pretty clear the minute I saw the knives they brought with them.
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Yes

When they had all the time in the world to bring in their best work, I was surprised to see all those rough faceted grinds.

Black T shirt guy was the only one who had a proper finish and understood some normalization steps.

First guy to break, could have given that a ferric chloride dunk and maybe had seen that.

Drill press guy needs to learn how to drill a hole and maybe learn aboout number / letter drills
I assume he was holding by hand and twisting to rag out the hole a little so pins would fit.

When they show close ups, it looked like there were a lot of burned pins
 
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The injury to the one competitor who had a drill press accident could have been simply avoided by securing his blade before drilling. Here is a photo of how I sometimes secure my work on the drill press and I always have a 3 inch bolt sticking up from the drill table. Larry


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I like the bolt on the drill press table. And with something less than 5 yrs experience, even I knew the drill press incident was not going to end well.
 
kuraki said:
They do not.
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This might be getting into things you can't talk about but is it possible that they know what the mystery steels are and try to give a optimal temper for the upcoming test? Or is it likely a double 400 straight across the board?
 
I can't say because I don't know for sure, and while I believe I could postulate an answer it would be a guess based on things I'm likely not supposed to share, and still just be a guess. I answered PEU's question specifically because it's something others have already mentioned and not really a secret.

I'll just say I don't think anyone gets screwed by the tempering process. You'd see a lot more edge quenching or spine softening than you do now if people really felt that was the case.
 
LARRYZ10 said:
The injury to the one competitor who had a drill press accident could have been simply avoided by securing his blade before drilling. Here is a photo of how I sometimes secure my work on the drill press and I always have a 3 inch bolt sticking up from the drill table. Larry
When I was a noob maker of about 6 months I had a Batch of blades come back from HT and Cryo shrunk the pin holes just enough that my Loveless bolts wouldn’t go through! I had taken a few down to Zero on the edge so when the hot drilled shards hit my un gloves hand the Helicopter of Death happen and sliced my left index finger to the bone !! ———-The reason I’m relaying my Asinine Stupid maneuvers is for you new guys to look at this picture of the proper safety steps to avoid a trip to the ER, the bills and the pain and lost time in the shop!!

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Tom Lewis said:
I think it was unfair to give them four different materials to work with. I think to be fair each smith should have the same material to work with.
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YEP, if I went all the way to NYC to do that show and they gave me lawn mower blades I would give em all a good cussin' and walk out. And I try me level best not to curse. I don't always succeed but I try.
 
What do you mean no Canadians? They had a French guy, basically the same thing :cool: Apply anyway so you're in the running for the next international show.
 
kuraki said:
What do you mean no Canadians? They had a French guy, basically the same thing :cool: Apply anyway so you're in the running for the next international show.
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Rhinoknives1 said:
They also had a Spanish man on FIF. No Canadians?? Hmmm?
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I did some interviews in the beginning and then the closed it off to US Residents only. There was an International Episode but alas, no Canadians. There was talk of a Canadian Version called "Masters of the North". I did a couple online interviews for that one, too. I guess it never took off, eh?
 
That's too bad. I'd like to see a Canada vs US episode.
 
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