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- Here in the forge

We've seen smiths
create some amazing blades

In the most
difficult challenges.

But tonight,
they'll be put through tests

Like never before.

We have four smiths
entering the forge

With their very
best work in hand.

Those blades will immediately
be put to the test.

- And one of them
will be eliminated

Before we ever
light a single forge.

And after two rounds of the most

Grueling challenges yet.

- Oh!
- Damn!

- Could be what sends me home.

- Only one smith
will remain standing.

- This is the knife fight.

- I'm bill pyles.
I'm from oxford, ohio.

Been bladesmithing
for about four years now.

My wife supports this hobby

But does refer to herself
as a forge widow.

It's because I've
been spending a lot of time

In the forge practicing
for this competition.

As long as I get
to hear doug marcaida say,

"it will keal,"
I'm totally good.

I made something
that I call the "scrim-oowie."

It's 160 layers
of damascus steel

With a brass holster on it.

I think it's
gonna perform excellent.

- My name is rhys.

I'm 18 years old.

When I was 15,
I saw a video on forging.

Started forging
the next day so I feel like

I have a little bit
of bragging rights

Because everything I've learned
I've learned on my own.

I just honestly can't believe
I'm on "forged in fire".

Hi, mom!

I made a kind of machete,
I guess.

It's made out of leaf spring.

Not sure if it's 5160,
I hope it is.

But if it's not,
shouldn't be a big deal.

It's hard, it's tough.

- My name's thomas franklin.
I'm 34 years old.

I've been smithing
for three years.

I really enjoy
cooking so I always had

Kind of a thing
for chef's knives.

And then my wife was like,
"hey, why don't you try

To make a few," and here we are.

I made my knife
with 1070 high-carbon steel.

It's an integral design

With nickel silver pins
and butt cap

And features a nice hamon.

- My name is karri rahkonen
and I'm 45 years old.

I'm a full-time
martial arts instructor.

I've been making
knives for about four years.

This is a high stress situation.

So a lifetime
of martial arts training

Is definitely applicable.

I made a georgian kinjal
out of 52100 steel,

Stabilized bloodwood burl,
brut de forge finish.

I definitely think that my blade

Is ready for a knife fight.

- Bladesmiths,
welcome to the forge.

Gentlemen, the four of you
have been chosen to take part

In a very unique competition
we are calling the knife fight.

As you know, only one
can win in a knife fight.

And that's exactly how
it's gonna happen today.

One of you will leave
here with the title

Of "forged in fire" champion,

And receive a check for $10,000.

And those decisions will be made

By the esteemed judges
standing behind me.

First off,
we have historic weapons

Re-creation specialist,
dave baker.

Next, we have abs master smith,
j. Neilson.

Finally,
edged weapons specialist

And kali martial artist,
doug marcaida.

You guys ready to go?

- Oh, yeah.
- Fantastic.

Here's how it's gonna work.

Each of the four
of you brought us a blade

That you built
at your home forges,

And we're gonna
go directly into testing.

Now after that testing,
there will be an eliminatio.

And only three
of you will be joining us

In the second round
of the knife fight.

- This is the time
when you find out

What kind of bladesmith you are.

What your preparation and
your training comes down to.

Time to put up or shut up.

- Now to decide which three
of you are moving forward,

We're gonna put your knives
in the hands

Of one of our most
prolific knife testers.

So good luck, bladesmiths.

J.

Bladesmiths, welcome to our
first ever knife fight test.

One of my personal favorites,
the ice block chop.

I'm gonna take each
of the blades that you

Brought with you
from your home forge,

And I'm going
to carve a little ice.

And then
we might cut something else

That might
come swinging by, too.

Never know what
happens around here.

And, bill, you're up first.

- Beat it like a rented mule, j.

- I've done that.

- When I first
see those ice blocks,

I dread my knife
getting pounded into it.

My biggest concerns
are the knife may

Take a bend,
the blade could take a roll.

- All right, bill, nice job.

First of all, like the damascus.

Your edge is good,
went through the ice

Without any rolling or chipping.

The only thing I would suggest
is more swell back here.

I'd like a little more
retention on the back end

So it doesn't slide,
but overall, good job.

- Thank you.
- Rhys, what happened?

You were smiling a minute ago.

- That was a lot more violent

Than I thought it was gonna be.

- I agree.

- You ready to go, rhys?

- I should've worn
my brown pants.

- Oh.
- They're doing the ice test.

Only thing I'm
worried about is, like,

The handle breaking
or something.

A little bit worried about that.

Ice block is
not a forgiving test,

But if they were
doing forgiving tests,

This wouldn't
be "forged in fire."

- Nice job, rhys.

Very simplistic design,

But it did a nice job
on the block.

Everything's
still straight and true.

You've got a good edge.

The biggest thing I would say
is the handle

Being so small.

It almost makes
the guard feel uncomfortable,

Even though
everything's rounded off,

Where you're just
choking up on enough

Just try to get enough
handle to hold on to.

But other than that,
you did a great job.

All right, thomas.
Ready to rock and roll?

- Might as well be.
- We're gonna do it anywa.

- I'm a little intimidated

Looking at all these ice blocks.

And just what starts
racing through my head is,

"will my blade break?"

I hope I still have an edge left

After j beats it to hell.

- Nice job, thomas.

Not too much handle,
just enough to hold on to.

Doing the integral
especially too, nice symmetry.

Your edge is sharp.

No damage to the edge.
No bend.

Good job.
- Thank you.

- Karri.
- Let's do it!

- Ready to go?
- Oh, yeah!

- Try to act excited, okay?

I am excited.

I want to see either my knife

Walk away without a fingerprint,

Or explode.

As long as one of those
two things happens,

I'm thrilled.

- All right, karri.

Bold move bringing
a double-edged weapon,

But nicely done.

I made sure I flipped it
halfway through the ice cho,

Test both edges, performed well.

Nice and light.

Your edges are good
on both sides.

But you could have done
a little more with this handle.

It's pretty simple.

A little flare at the base

Would have really helped,
but nice job.

- Thank you.

- Nice.

All right, bladesmiths.

We asked the four of you guys

To bring your very best
to the forge,

Going into a test
completely blind.

And I gotta say you all
knocked it out of the park.

But in this knife fight
competition,

Only three of you can join us
in the second round.

Our judges have made a final
decision that they agree upon.

Thomas, bill.

Gentlemen, congratulations.

You are joining us in round two.

Now karri, rhys.

It's down
to the two of you guys.

The bladesmith
leaving the forge is...

Rhys.

Unfortunately, your
blade did not make the cu,

And j is gonna tell you why.

- Rhys,
your blade performed great.

But compared
to your competitors,

It's a very simplistic design,

And that handle being so small.

For those reasons
we're sending you home.

- Well, rhys,
for myself and the judges,

We want to say thank you
for coming to the forge

And presenting us
with your work.

But unfortunately, at this time,

I'm gonna have to ask you
to please

Step off the forge floor.

- All right, thanks
for the opportunity to come on.

- Thank you, rhys.

- I think the results
speak for themselves.

I'm definitely
gonna make my handles

A little bit bigger from now on.

I just can't wait
to get back to my forge

And keep on forging,
keep on hammering.

- Bladesmiths, congratulations.

The three
of you have moved forward

Into the second round
of our knife fight.

Now, guys,
we've already seen what

You can do on your own time
in your own forges.

But now it's time to find out

How well you can work
under pressure of time

In the shortest bladesmithing
round we've ever had.

In this second round, gentlemen,

You will have two hours
to make a push dagger.

Just make sure they fall
within these parameters.

Your daggers need to measure
between four and five inches.

That is measured from tip
to where the cutting edge ens

In a straight line.

They need to be double-edged,
forward-facing tip,

And be quenched and hardened
by the end of the two hours.

- Two hours?
That's just not enough time.

It's just not.

- You're probably
wondering what are you

Gonna be building
your blades with.

Gentlemen, you all
have a cloth on your anvil.

Go ahead and remove that for us.

What you have there
are bars of 1095

And 15n20 high-carbon steel.

We want you to take those,
forge weld them together

Into a damascus billet,
and make your push daggers.

Now, gentlemen,
when the two hours expires,

You will turn your blades over
to our judges,

And they will take a closer
look at how far you've gotten,

Make some critiques,
and an elimination.

Now, for those of you
who do move forward

Into the third round
of the competition,

You will have a chance
to finish the blades,

But we want
to see how far you can get

In such a short amount
of time as two hours.

So bring your very best.

So good luck,
'cause that time starts now.

This is not a lot of time
to make a damascus billet

And turn it into a push dagger.

- There is time to do it,
though.

So 'cause I'm always
carrying something,

This dagger was made in two
and a half hours complete.

- I have never
made a push dagger before,

And I've got two hours
to do it in.

I'm thinking it's impossible,

But I've come to be a champion,

So I'm gonna give it 100%.

I started grinding off any
kind of scale or oxides

From my 15n20 and 1095,

Making sure that
I got a nice clean weld.

Any oxides or scale
on the outsides

Of your material
will prevent a good weld.

- If anything goes
wrong in this forge weld,

They don't really have time
to start over.

You only got two hours.

You don't have a lot
of time to mess around.

- I think I'm gonna do just fine

With the pressure
of the competition.

I worked in kitchens,
I've worked under deadlines.

I just compartmentalize.

- All right, karri's
the first smith in the forg.

- I can just go into,
like, high gear.

How do I accomplish
what I've planned three hous

In two hours?

- I've made two punch knives.

So at least I've made som.

But they did not get finished
in two hours.

I have a great plan in my head.

I only need to use
about a third of this steel.

- Well, all of these smiths
have enough steel

To start out with.

They've got enough to make
about four of these daggers.

- I clean all the steel up,
leave one end of it colored

So I can do appropriate stacks.

I go to the welder...

And have a total brain fart

And weld every piece
of that steel together,

And throw it in the forge.

- Bill is finally in the forge.

- It's about three times
the amount of material

I really needed.

I thought this was
gonna be a piece of cake.

I may have jinxed myself.

Could be what sends me home.

- How am I supposed to do this?

Making a dagger in a two-hour
timeline is freaking me out.

As soon as I get
done cleaning the steel,

I'm running over to the mig
welder to tack up my billet.

And then next is
rushing to the forge.

- Thomas, he's now in the fire.

- You can't rush it.

I'm telling myself,
"don't touch that steel

Until there's an hour
and 30 minutes on the clock."

So I'm standing there
for 10 minutes doing nothing.

If you don't get everything
to the correct temp,

You risk bad welds
and delaminations.

- The nice thing
about these stacks,

They're not gonna
to take that long to heat up.

- I notice
the temperature is correc.

- Thomas, going to big blu
to set his weld.

- I'm down with that.

- Everything looks great.

I'm off to the races,
smashing it hard as I can go.

- Bladesmiths,
you have 90 minutes left!

Finally, when I'm
at the temperature,

When everything's a nice color,

Go over to the press.

I tried to go very light

Because if I put too much
pressure on it,

They can slide,
and they can split apart.

- It looks like bill
was a little aggressive

With that press.

- Agh!

It splits apart.

- It looks like he's
got a big wedge now.

- I'm falling very far behind.

After a few bleeped words,

Heading back
from the press to the forge.

Load that sucker up with flux
and started heating again.

- Well,
bill is trying to salvage

That stack he put together.

But he's in some
hot water right now.

- Bill hasn't drawn
that billet out very much,

And half his time
is almost gone already.

- Third time to the press.
I got him to stick.

There is always something
that can go wrong

With a damascus billet.

Damascus is a pain in the butt.

- Once I got it
all welded together,

I started drawing out
my billet into a bar.

I'm gonna take the collar

And the blade of my push dagger

And incorporate a twist
so that it stands out

In the judge's opinion.

- Karri's gonna go for a twist
damascus in that blade.

That's the kind
of thing I love seeing.

- He's got an hour
and 20 minutes.

- So what?

- Twist is one
of the quickest patterns

You could do.

- Come on.

When you're doing twist,
there's a risk of getting

Inclusions or delaminations
in the threads of the twist.

If something goes wrong,
I'm out of the fight.

But I came here to measure
what kind of bladesmith I am.

Now that I got my bar twisted,

It's time to start forging
the blade to shape.

- The push dagger,
I've never made one.

So all I'm thinking is
how do I attach a handle

Because I've
never even drawn one.

I'm just really freaking out.

- This is the tricky part
is making this t-section.

So here's a trick,

Instead of doing
a full tang construction,

Do a hidden tang construction.

All you need to do
is make the dagger,

This neck, and then a peg.

Slide that into
some of the micarta,

Shape the micarta
into the handle

And you've got a perfectly
functional push dagger.

- Interesting.

- I'm gonna go with what I know

So I'm thinking hidden tang.

My goal is
to draw the bar stock out

So I have plenty
of material to form a bolster.

I think that
would be pretty cool.

- Yeah, perfect.

That bolster will
stop that through tang

From going through
the handle material.

- But with a really
short time constraint,

I'm already having doubt
that I can make it happen.

Crazy.

- You have one hour remaining!

- I got a little too much length

Because I put every piece
of steel in my billet.

- Bill has taken off
a sizable portion.

- I like that.

- It feels like I am
spending an eternity

At the chop saw trying
to shrink this thing down.

If I just started
with a third of the steel,

I would have been so
far ahead of the game.

I'm ready to throw in the towel.

But then I look at my gloves,

Because I've got notes
on my gloves

From every one
of my kids, my wife.

And it was like,
"no, no, can't stop."

- Karri's blade,

It's not the most
comfortable looking handle.

- Right now he's
got a palm killer.

Those two corners
on that t would do nothing

But dig into your palm
every time you hit.

- The key to push daggers is
comfort between the fingers.

The fingers are
very sensitive right here.

You have a thing
where you're putting pressure

In between them.

- Once I get my blade roughly
shaped and flat and straigh,

I start rough grinding
it with the angle grinder.

I'm trying to profile the blade.

And the backside
of the disc just burns me

- Oh, boo-boo.

Karri just decided
to angle grind his fingerti.

- I don't have time to stand
around getting bandaged.

No way.

- He did it again.
- You did not.

- I think I could
hear david baker being like,

"are you serious?"
or something.

I'm like, "oh, no."

My one goal is to not have
the judges all stand up

And be like "ah!"

And I'm pretty sure
that was my moment.

My bad.

- Instantly I'm uncomfortable
with what I'm doing

'cause I know what
I'm used to making

Are just two bevels,
a straight flat grind.

My dagger has got four of 'e.

So you're not only worried about

Keeping your grinds even,

They have to be perfectly down
the center of the blade

To look right.

It's twice the bevels,
twice the stuff to worry about.

- But, dave,
how exactly do you make

The blade on a push dagger?

- Well, beyond
forming that handle,

They've got four bevels to do.

Basically, it's a dagger,
so you've got four bevel,

Or a quad-hollow,
on a small frame.

That's a lot of work.

- I'm not happy
with where my bevels are.

But I look at the clock,
and I know I have

To harden the blade
and touch up the edge.

It's gonna be challenging.

- Bladesmiths, you are down
to the final 30 minutes.

- My dagger is a christmas tree.

I need to put an edge on it.

But then bevel grinds,
it takes forever.

- All right, bill has
now decided to go straight

To the grinders with a big
old flattened triangle shape.

Trying to turn that
into a push dagger now.

- He's got a metal pizza slice.

- I need to put an edge on it,
but I'm screwed.

I don't have
time to do that here.

I have totally lost my.

I need to quench it.

Everything can go wrong when
you're going for the quench.

There's not a whole lot of time
to fix anything that goes bad.

- Bill just quenched
at a screaming hot temperature.

- Yeah.

- No tings, it's fairly
straight, looks good.

- The whole contest is
at stake at this point.

If this cracks or turns
into a banana, I'm done.

- All right,
karri's got a quenched blade.

- I file check it,
and it skates.

I still have time
for a few minutes

Of finishing,
and then a good etch.

That's wild.

I literally cannot believe

How well this twist bar
turns out.

The risk of making
a twist bar totally pans ou.

- Karri's handle looks
like a sailboat without a sail.

- Come on, baby.

Thomas is cutting it close,

Still hasn't quenched his blade.

- Trying to get a nice
even orange glow to the steel.

- There we go.
- There we go.

- I don't hear
any tings or pops.

Everything looks great.

I'm thinking to myself,

"you got to move.
The clock's ticking."

Let's run over the grinder
and touch up the edge.

I'm not gonna stop
until the clock quits.

- Five, four, three, two, one!

Bladesmiths,
turn off your tools.

This round is officially over.

- Two-hour time is up.

I'm totally not happy with it.

I don't have an edge yet.

And I don't have a dagger
that's done.

I don't know if I can make it
to the next round

With the dagger I produced.

- Well, bladesmiths,
very well done.

In a matter of two hours,
all three of you

Were able
to take damascus billets

And turn them into push daggers.

That's impressive.

But now the time has come
for our second critique

In the knife fight, which will
be followed by an elimination.

Karri, you're up first.
Are you ready?

- Born ready!
- Please present your work.

- All right, so,
karri, right off,

Really nice aggressive
point shape to that.

A low layer lazy twist is one

Of my favorite patterns
on the planet.

But having your fingers
spread that hard

When you hit something,
having done that before,

It's a good way
to really mess up your fingers.

Now, that big straight line
across my palm,

As opposed
to having the curvature

That your hand normally has,

It's forcing my hand into that
big triangle that you got her.

So if you move forward
into that final round,

You got some work to do on this.

- Thomas, how you feeling?
- Good.

- Please present your knife.

- All right, thomas,
first off, nice work.

Steel looks good.

I like the integral
bolster idea.

And if you move
to the next round,

I'd be curious to see how you
finish the rest of this off.

But overall,
very nice job on this.

I'd be half tempted
to swipe this back to my shop.

- Last but not least,
bill, are you ready?

- Yes, I am.
- Please present your work.

- All right, bill,
not bad for a two-hour job.

Your damascus billet is soli.

But I wish you ground
in some kind of bevels.

Right now it's
a push dagger... Blank.

If you move forward,

There's just a lot of work
to do to get those bevels in.

Right now you got the scale,
just needs some refinement.

- Thank you.

- All right,
gentlemen, yet again,

You have all
impressed our judges,

And you turned in
beautiful work.

But at this time,
they have to decide

Which one of you
will be leaving the forge

And who will be stepping forward

Into the final round
of our knife fight.

So while they deliberate,
I'm gonna ask you

To please step off
the forge floor.

All right, guys, to me it looks

Like a really,
really tight race.

But what do you guys think?

- Thomas, assuming
he's got a plan in there,

Taking care of that tang,
shorten it up,

Round it off,
cleaning up that bolster.

He can drill a hole
straight through a piece

Of strong handle material,

Run one pin, and just
shape it out really quickly.

- Dave, what do you think?

- When I go
over to karri's blade,

There's a lot going on here.

If he shapes this tang,

He's gonna have a neck

That's about an inch
and a half long.

You want that dagger
to be right above your hand.

You don't want a bunch of space

And then the dagger.

- What's the reason for that?

- Well, when you hit something,
it rolls over in your hand

And winds up smashing
your knuckles on either side.

- Okay, doug,
where do you stand with I?

- I have two blades right
here that have bevels

That I know can thrust

And possibly lacerate
a little bit.

With bill's, I see a knife blank

With all the sides
the same width.

I love the fact
that it's already

Really comfortable
among the three.

But it's not a blade.

It's a knife blank.

- But bill in my opinion's
got the easiest route

To go right now
by just putting bevels in.

And karri's
actually got the most things

He needs to fix in round two.

- All right, guys, well,
it sounds like we have

Three potentially great blades,

A lot of questions
on each of them.

But somebody does need
to go home.

So are you guys all confident
in your decisions?

J?
- Yeah.

- Dave, how about you?
- Yeah.

- Doug?
- Yep.

- Okay, call them in.

Well, gentlemen,
for our first ever knife fight,

This has been
exactly what we wanted to see.

We've got three
extremely talented smiths here,

And I gotta say
that was probably

The longest deliberation
I've seen in quite some time

Because every one
of you has reasons to be here.

It was not an easy decision.

In fact,
we had a split decision.

But with two votes to one,

The bladesmith
leaving the forge is...

Karri, unfortunately, your
blade did not make the cu,

And dave baker is
gonna tell you why.

- First off,
I really like the fact that you

Put that twist in there,
and I love your blade shape.

But that handle, the mass is
so far away from the blad.

It's just more work than the
other competitors have to do.

That's why we're letting you go.

- Thanks
for an amazing opportunity.

This has been the experience
of lifetime.

- Well, karri,
myself and the judges woud

Like to say thank you
so much for coming

And spending time in the forge,
showing us your work.

But unfortunately, your time
in the knife fight has ended.

I'm gonna have to ask you
to please surrender your work

And step off the forge floor.

- All right, thank you.

- I thought the twist pattern
and the refinement

On my edge would
have pushed me through

To the next round,
but I was wrong.

But there's nothing I
would have done differently.

I gave it 100%.

This is a bucket list item
for me.

I wanted to be
on the competition

Since season one, episode one.

And it's been, overall,
an unbelievable experience.

- Thomas, bill, gentlemen,
congratulations.

You have made it forward
into the third

And final round
of our first knife fight.

Now it's down to the two of you.

You guys are gonna
battle it out in this forge

For six hours.

This is gonna ultimately end
with one of you

Leaving here with the title
of "forged in fire" champion

Carrying a check for $10,000.

In this final six-hour round,

We want you
to fix any issues you have

With your push daggers,
add handles to them,

Turning them into
fully functioning weapons.

But that's far from it.

Gentlemen, we also want
you to complete a blade

From start to finish.

We want you to build this...

This very wicked fighter
was made by none other

Than "forged in fire"
super champion, collin sage.

- Whoo!

- We want you
to recreate collin's blade

As closely as possible.

Your blades must measure
between 17 and 19 inches.

Needs to have
a peaked clip point

And swell at the belly
to no less than three inches.

You will also have
to include fullers

On both sides of the blade,
a guard, and a pommel.

If you look behind you
on your workstations,

You see some steel.

What you have there are bars
of 1095 and 15n20.

There's also a bar of 80crv2.

What we want you guys
to do is take the 1095,

Take that 15n20, turn it
into a damascus billet.

Once that is complete,
you'll stretch it out,

Cut it, clad it
alongside that 80crv2

For a damascus san mai
construction.

I got your heart going, don't I?

- No, six hours is not
a lot of time

To get a knife like that don.

- Well, gentlemen,
when this round is complete,

And you guys both have
your fighters

And your push daggers
ready to go,

You're going to turn them
over to our judges,

And they're gonna
put your blades

Through a series of tests.

Unfortunately,
I can't tell you what

Those tests are
gonna be right now.

You'll find out
when we get there.

So good luck, stay sharp.

Your time starts now.

- Here we go.

- This is a lot of work
for six hours, guys.

- A lot of work.

- The key to this is going
to be time management.

- You don't have enough time
if you focus on one at a time.

- What's gonna be
the hardest part

Is the fact
that we're doing damascus.

So first plan
of action is to weld up

Two separate billets
of the damascus steel.

Working with two billets
is almost zero downtime.

- Bill is gonna have
to be working on one stac,

Then pull the other stack out,
work on that,

And that's gonna take away
the time for his push dagger.

- These forge welds
on these damascus billets

Go perfect, piece of cake.

- It's hard enough on its own
to make damascus and san mai,

But we're also trying
to finish our push daggers.

So first thing, I clean
the steel up for damascus.

And then turn on the welder,
tack the billet up,

Put a handle on it,
into the heat.

Every second is precious
in this round,

So it's time
to work on the dagger

While the billet heats up.

I can already tell
during the challenge,

There's gonna be a whole lot
of me running back and forth

Between the dagger
and the san mai billet.

- You're making
a big damascus chopper here,

And then a push dagger
on the side.

They're about as far away

From each other
as you can get in style.

So that's really gonna
throw a curveball at 'em.

- I'm getting
the damascus drawn out.

I think really
I'm ahead of the clock.

Bingo!

With the two billets,
they've got to be drawn out

To the same length and
the same width as your 80crv.

If they're not the same size,

They roll around each other
kind of like a doughnut,

And then you get a cold shut.

And I could end up
with a failure of the blade

During testing.

- Bill has now got
a damascus san mai billet

In the fire.

- Any free time I have,
I'm constantly switching bak

To catch up
on my turd of a dagger.

- I see my steel's hot,
so I gotta go set my welds.

- That is a large stack
of damascus.

- Setting these welds is
so critical to this billet

'cause if the metal peels apart,

Then I don't have time
to make another billet.

Starting over in this challenge

Would be the worst
catastrophic event to happe.

Luckily, my welds look good,

And I'm moving forward
with the san mai construction.

Now he's at the chop saw,
gonna cut that thing in half.

Then he's gonna have
two damascus billets

That he can then clad
onto that 80crv2.

- All right, good.

- Bladesmiths, you have
4 hours and 30 minutes left!

Bill setting the welds on his
damascus san mai billet now.

- I'm very happy with the welds.

They seem to be sticking
together very well.

Coming through.

Now I have
to turn it into a knife.

Not just any knife,
a 19-inch long blade.

Freaking beast.

- One thing I don't know
if these smiths have noticed

On collin's example is
that's a pretty thin blade.

- Plus,
you got to put two fullers

On both sides that will
help lighten the blade.

- I'm kind of getting
the shape I want,

Not the perfect shape
that I need to recreate.

Freaking ugly.

But it's drawing out well,

I'm getting the proper
length I need,

I've got
the proper width I need.

I start really
feeling comfortable with it.

- Now my san mai billet
is welded together,

I can start profiling the shape.

It's a real difficult billet
because you got to leave

Enough mass
to spread the tip out.

Come on,
you big-bellied bastard.

- Thomas needs to get
a minimum of 3 inches

At the widest part of the blade.

But he's not
making any progress.

- I start
to feel my arms get tense.

My fingers are starting
to cramp.

I've never worked so hard
on a blade before in my life.

- But he's gotta get
more aggressive on big blu.

You got to let
that hammer do the work.

- Just go pedal
to the metal, bud.

- I may be exhausted, but I
have to keep telling myself,

"don't give up.
Just keep going."

That's good.

I have width.

Gotta move on.

I don't need anything
to go wrong.

I need every second that I have.

- I look at the clock,

And I swear I stepped
into a time warp,

And now it's an hour later
than what it was before.

- Bladesmiths, you have three
hours left in the knife fight.

- I need to quench this thing.

- Guys, I think it's safe to say

That it is officially
crunch time.

They still have
to do their guards,

They got to do their pommels,

They got to get their
handles finished.

And they have
to completely finish

Their punch daggers.

- Both of these smiths
need to quench now.

- Into the oil, feels fine.

If it's a perfect world...

You quench your blade,

Comes out beautifully straight.

In my world,

Mine comes out looking
like some type of pasta.

Exactly what I
didn't want to happen.

- Yeah, bill's got a pretty
substantial warp in there.

- Yep, wow.

- I have to get
the warp out of it.

If I break it, I break it.

- Man, look at the torque that
bill's putting on his blade.

I do not get all the warp out.

But I don't have time
to even try to grind it out.

I'm not aiming
for pretty at this point.

I'm just aiming for done.

- I gotta get it quenched no,

And I gotta move
on to other things.

The quench is the critical step

In the blade making process.

It can make or break you.

- There you go.

- Quench it out.
- Go for it.

- Especially san mai.

San mai can delaminate
and pop apart.

So I've got all these
bad thoughts in my head

About what's gonna happen
in the quench.

I pulled it out of the oil,
and everything looks straight.

I don't see
anything critical going wron.

Just a great feeling of relief

That I can move on
to the next step.

- It's make or break time.

My next step is
to get the handle fit on.

Now we're good.

Next, I decided
to go with a piece

Of brass for the pommel.

- He's getting
pretty close to having

A fully formed collin blade.

- The pommel's the easiest part,

So bill should be
on the home stretch here.

- I weld the all thread
onto the tang.

- Bill went right
in the water after that weld.

- Oh, man.

- All that heat and then
quenching it in water

Is a big shock.

And we've seen it
time and time again

Where the pommels
end up breaking off.

- Get everything all epoxied up.

Start cranking the nut down.

- Oh, and it snapped off.
- Oh, no!

- Damn it.

This is the mechanical
connection for the knife.

Without a handle,
they can't test it.

- That was a $10,000
water quench we just saw.

- It could be.

- I just keep thinking,

"I don't have
a snowball's chance in hell

Of getting this thing done."

I am in absolute panic mode.

I've just totally lost it.

How am I gonna do this in time?

- What are the fixes right now?
- Put another piece on.

Just don't quench it in water.

- Everything for the handles,
totally reusable.

Go back over, weld a new piece
of all thread.

Let it cool this time.

- Bill got the weld done

And bypassed the water bucket
this time.

- Nice, nice, nice.

- Start putting that nut on.

Oh, my god,
I think that'll work.

I've got the base
of a handle together.

I just have to shape it now.

But I need to wait
for the epoxy to dry.

So now back to the dagger.

- Bladesmiths,
you have 90 minutes remaining!

- I run over to the pantry

To pick some handle material
for my dagger.

Found it.

So I grab a short piece
of wood and get started.

The first step is
to trim my tang to length

So it doesn't go
through the handle material.

I could see that I need to trim
off about a half an inch.

And then start boring a hole
into the wood.

- Thomas is drilling a hole
now in that handle material.

- I don't know
exactly what he chose.

But there's plenty
of woods that will hold up

To almost anything you
can throw at 'em with a handle.

- All right, good.

I'm at the point now
that I have to fit up.

I have to put a pin
through the handle

Into the tang inside the wood.

I'm at a good stopping point
now with the dagger.

So it's time to go work
on my blade again.

I'm looking at the clock.

How can I possibly
get all this work done

Before the time ends?

- I don't like it,
but I'm gonna live with it.

I'm running around
like a chicken

With my head cut off,
and in the back of my mind,

I've still got this dagger
that needs to be done.

Nobody says
it's gotta be pretty.

- Now he's moved on
to the handle

Of his push dagger,
and it is about time.

- The handle on the dagger
really just needs

To be very basic and feels
comfortable in the hand.

- Bill's is looking pretty good.

- Yeah,
bill's getting it together.

- I'm at the point now

Where I think the handle
is good enough.

I have to start trying to get
some type of edge on it.

It's gotta cut.

- Bladesmiths, you have
30 minutes before testing!

- The clock's ticking.

I don't have a sharpened edge
on this blade,

And I still don't
even have the handle on.

I chose a block of micarta
because it's durable.

You can't crack it.

You gotta be kidding me.

But now it's taking me forever
to broach this hole out.

Things just aren't going my way.

- With 15 minutes left
on the clock,

Thomas still has
to fully assemble his blade,

Get his pommel attached,

And then get an edge
on his blade

And shape the handle.

- This is panic time.

- Finally get it fit close
enough to put the pommel on.

- Five minutes left, gentlemen.

- Ugh.
- Run, run, run, run, run.

- Holy cow, this is
not looking good for thomas.

- I run into the grinder

And start putting
on a cutting edge.

Everything's going crazy,
time's flying by.

I know I've got
to sharpen my dagger, to.

I'm worried I'm not
gonna finish in time.

- Five, four, three, two, one.

- Bladesmiths,
turn off your machines.

This round
of the knife fight is ove!

- At the end of the day,
it's done.

It's not pretty, but it's done.

- Well, bladesmiths,

It's time to take your weapons
and pick a fight.

This is the dynamic keal test.

To find out how lethal
and how well constructed

Your weapons are,
I'm gonna take your weapos

And deliver some slashes
and thrusts

On this ballistics dummy
and kendo sticks.

Bill, you're up first.
You ready?

- I guess I have to be.
- All right, let's do thi.

- Scale of one to ten,
my confidence level is five.

I'm right in the middle.

With the problems that I had,

I'm really nervous about how
things are gonna test out.

- All right, bill,
let's talk about your weapons.

First up, let's talk about
your push dagger right here.

I really like it.

The handle you have,
it's just the right size

So that I can wrap
my hand around it.

And when I'm thrusting
and slashing,

It is a sharp blade
'cause it thrust nicely

And easily
onto this ballistics dummy.

There's no nicks.

No rolls on your edges.

Good job.

Now let's talk
about your beast here.

This is a heavy weapon.

Having your handle
have no contours over here,

It was really hard
to control this piece

When I'm swinging with it.

It's a great chopper.

But every time I'm pulling back,

This thing just wants
to leave my hand.

But overall, sir,
both your weapons,

It will keal.

- Thank you.

- Thomas, your turn.
You ready?

- Might as well be.
- Let's do this.

- I'm relieved that it's over.

But I really just wish
I'd had more time

Or made some changes
along the way.

I'm hoping that it holds.

So many hot spots, it's
really digging into my hand.

Especially here, look...

Right, thomas.

Your handle is so unfinished,
it's very hard to hold on t.

And the minute I grab on to it,
there are sharp edges all over.

The guard,
especially the spacers

That you have here,
the minute I grab onto that,

It's already digging
into my hand.

If I start swinging this,
I'm gonna tear my hand apart.

And because of that,
I cannot test your blade

Fairly against your opponent's.

- I understand.

- Well, thomas, unfortunately,

Due the unfinished nature
of your handle

And the inability to test it
fairly against bill's,

Our judges have issued a vote
of no confidence.

For that reason, your time
in this forge has ended.

I'm gonna have to ask you
to please step

Off the forge floor.

- Congratulations.
- Thank you, thomas.

- Thank you, thomas.
- Thanks, man.

- My handle was unfit to wield.

I think if I had
another few minutes,

We could have seen the test.

I'm proud
of what I accomplished.

I just wish
I could have finished.

- Well, bill,
you just won the first ever

"forged in fire"
knife fight, man.

You got a check for $10,000.

Congratulations.
- Yes!

- Holy crap, I just
won "forged in fire."

I can't believe it.

- How you feeling?

- Hate to win this way,
but it's great.

Dream come true.

I had a blast
even though it was one

Of the most stressful things
I've ever done.

Would I do it again?

Maybe.

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