well gentlemen congratulations the two of you guys are moving forward into round
three of the competition where we send you to your home forges to build one of these
two weapons from our forged and fire vault and the weapon you'll be building in round three is
the pura sword i'm seeing this sword with a wonky zoro shaped handle
and about a 24 to 28 inch blade and i'm thinking not so bad i think i can make this
featured in season seven of fortune fire the pira is an ornate versatile sword used by the yukon
tribe in the southern philippines the weapon's unique blade shape and long pommel proved to
be challenging for both smiths who were ultimately forced to start over the third day of their builds
ultimately one smith was unable to secure the mechanical connection to her handle in time
forcing the judges to issue a vote of no confidence due to safety concerns you will have
four days of your home for just to work on your pair of blades so good luck we'll see you then
my name is garrett campbell i'm 41 years old and i've been bladesmithing for about two years what i
like about bladesmithing is it's a big hot piece of steel you can't take your eye off that and
you have to be in the moment the first thing i'm gonna do is get the forge fired up now that i'm
roughly to shape feels good i'm gonna go over to the belt grinder so i can cut more material away i
check parameters and i'm dead on murdered it we're pretty close to quenching i'm ready to heat treat
we might have to quench again she's not skating like she should i'm not happy
with the file test so i'm gonna quench again i just don't think it sat in there long enough
this quench temperature looked better looks more even uh longer quench all right we're good i
start working on what's essentially a guard i'm drilling it out to make it fit the tank
it was a little fiddly i'm hesitant about the fit and the quality but overall i'm happy
side note this is the only piece of this wood i have
everything's going smoothly
i'm davey wilson i'm 49 years old and i'm a master barber
unfortunately i'm losing the master barber's hair on top of my head my dad and i took class together
and after we built our very first knife i looked over and said hey you want to build another one
he said i sure do part of the reason i am here now is to make dad proud hey dan had
a visitor this morning just about to get started on this sword anytime in the past when dad would
stop in he'd jump right in and help me with the knife build i don't know if he was disappointed
or relieved that he didn't have to help with this build i'd like to help on something like that but
at least it's a shorter one that's right it's different than anything we've done before
i'll see you later all right see ya feels good i believe that he's going to be extremely proud of
how this blade performs i believe we got a good straight blade i'm having trouble just getting
this walnut cut through having to use some chisels sometimes it needs a little persuasion
finally it works once we epoxy and pin the blade to the handle it's going to be one homogenous
piece looking good it's holding there i've got the handle to a comfortable point now it's time
to test it's pretty sharp but it's not not where it needs to be for my first pier i'm
pretty happy with it basements welcome to the kill test to find out how lethal your weapons
are according to its historic design i'm gonna take your weapon and deliver some lethal blows
on whatever is behind the curtain i'm gonna find out how effective your weapons are at the
same time how they feel when i wield them garrett you're first you ready for this yep let's do this
i don't know if they're just gonna swing through the sheet of whatever's on the other
side it's just you know one more game in the forge of mystery
all right guys let's talk about your pita sword here your handle construction well done your
edge is very sharp it allows me to cut deeply and swing well with your weapon overall sir
you will kill thank you all right davey are you set sir you're next yes sir
all right davey let's talk about your pita sword here first up in your design it's a very forward
heavy weapon as you can see just by looking at the spine it's thicker and it tapers down to the guard
now your edge is sharp with a forward weight it chops into the big carcass but slicing
not quite because you have to control the weight of the weapon but it will kill i will
gentlemen you know what time it is the mystery strength test
now these strength tests are not concerned about what your blades do to the target
or what that target does to your blades garrett you're up first are you ready let's do it
damn the guard the weld all right yeah
garrett right off i liked the feel of the weapon the balance was nice the weight was nice
i had no issues looking at that break your grain structure
is beautiful all i can really say is that that tang is a little on the lean side and maybe
that where this married up there was just enough movement in there that it allowed it to blow apart
as as opposed to being tight and held together but it definitely felt like a nice weapon thank you
garrett that is painful to see man but you are not out of the fight yet
davey your blade has to survive one strike on this brutal test and if you do you win dave
all right davey man there's a lot of weapon here your grinds are beautiful i think your
handle's beautiful and comfortable there's no end to damage on this at all awesome i would
not run my finger down this blade you nailed the heat treat on that good job thank you
well davey the bell is rung and you survived it man congratulations garrett we hate to see this
happen we always want to see more testing done but unfortunately your blade did break during
the testing we can't continue third reason today you are not the fortune fire champion
i want to say thank you for coming out i have to ask you please leave the forge man
thanks davey your blade survived the test and that makes you the fortune fire champion you're
gonna be leaving here with a check for ten thousand dollars man congratulations thank you
you have any plans for the money a little more mustache grooming stuff i am so elated right now
thank you so much knowing where my journey started when i didn't know anything about
swinging hammers and forging metal dad i'm the new forged and fire champion i'm coming home a winner
you