I'm sure you notice that your anvils are
conspicuously absent any steel that's
because in the first round of
competition we're giving you this
a huge pile of 5160 spring steel you got
to figure out how to forge into a
signature blade in your signature style
the length of your blades must be
between 10 and 13 inches the overall
length of your weapon must not exceed 22
inches you must include a through Tang
in your blades design you have three
hours to forge your blades good luck
your ten-minute design window starts now
we're gonna make a recurve camp knife I
know they can stab with the drop point
on I want something with nice curves
it's good for slice it in and something
that I know will satisfy the obstacles
that they're gonna be put through wait
Smith's your ten-minute design window is
closed your three-hour for its time
starts now
I'm gonna give cannon sir Damascus a
shot but I've never done one before so
it's a little intimidating whew what I
think these guys are going forward if
they stretch out the springs it's easier
to get powder if I don't put space
between each coil then I could end up
with delamination or cold shot
I've never welded before so this is fun
okay so we have nice to fit here that
does not know how to well fine Andrew oh
yeah turn it on let's see if he gets the
hang of it shoot can't see through the
visor and I'm trying to hook the water
up to the steel and then quickly pull
down my mask cuz I can't see anything
there that's ugly
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just dump this canister and spilled
about half his powder out I'm pretty
pumped but there's no way there's gonna
happen I'm not gonna even waste time to
do something that I don't know I got to
do 180 and try to make up for all this
lost time now I don't have time for any
more mess up so I've already messed up
once plan B is to get these coil springs
welded up and I'm gonna get a piece of
mild steel wrap it around that weld it
together for some samurai it's got a
long wire I've got my Springs welded up
so now I start getting my mild steel and
into a sandwich shape I need to get it
nice and tight to where it's not gonna
fall out when I go to semi first well
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problem with and removing some steals it
doesn't have an upskilling create an
edge for that thing I know what I'm
gonna end up with and it's not gonna be
my style or pretty but I just want to
get a knife done at this moment this
forging round is over I hope the judges
can appreciate that I did everything the
old-fashioned way
I don't really appreciate welding I like
to do rivets I think welds are kind of
ugly
for the most part a welder
bladesmiths this was a very difficult
round wine really challenging your
problem-solving capabilities now it's
time for the judges to take a closer
look at your work Mike you're up one
thing that I like about this blade is
it's designed for a stabbing test so you
have that spear like shape over there I
like that you have a false hedge on one
side of support to stab Andrew you know
what to do I'm gonna be totally honest
MIG welding is about the easiest welding
there is out there I really would have
liked to seen it maybe spend about ten
minutes and just figure it out and that
could definitely help you beef this
blade up okay this is very lean bill
you're up
you got wires that are sticking up on
the ends that are loose I can wiggle the
wires inside the taco so it's definitely
not welded up 100% especially at that
piece bill your blade did not make the
cut
Jay will explain bill we all really
appreciate the work you put into that
challenge but not having your high
carbon steel Forge welded together it's
the least developed way we have
presented to us today so that's why
we're gonna let you go
you