- Each of your weapons will now be put through a series
of three tests, there will be a strength
test, a sharpness test, and up first, the kill test.
Doug?
Blade smiths, to find out what kind of lethal damage
your weapon will do, I will take your rings,
and for slashes and thrusts on this big carcass.
Rebel, you're up first.
You ready? - More than ready.
Let's do this.
The amount of stress in hitting that pig,
I'm afraid the rivets may try to come loose.
[music playing]
[whacking]
(WHISPERING) Nice job.
All right.
I like the construction here.
It's unique.
I've never seen this done before.
It makes it very sturdy, but it adds
a little more weight to it.
It makes siding it a little bit more difficult.
But yet, once you get going, your winning fire will kill.
- Thank you. - All right, Chuck.
Your turn. You ready?
I'm ready.
For me, the big concern is the welds.
That's the weak point.
[music playing]
[whacking]
It ain't critical.
Just like that one broke, any of the other ones
could possibly break, which has me worried
that I really screwed something up.
[whacking]
First up, it's obvious.
The problem here is you lost the blade.
With the welds that you have here, it broke.
That's why you have other blades to help out with the fight.
Your blades are wicked sharp.
Because they're so much lighter, the cuts
are deeper and sharper.
It will kill.
Next stop, the strength test. Dave?
Now, to test the strength and overall construction
of your wind and fire rings, I'll be attacking
our bamboo woosh dummie.
Rebel, you're up first. You ready?
Definitely.
[music playing]
[whacking]
Damn.
OK.
So right off, Rebel, those points are wicked.
They are nice and sharp and strong.
There's a lot of weight to these blades.
But I think your construction technique is brilliant.
Nicely done.
Thank you.
All right, Chuck.
You ready? - Yeah.
OK
[music playing]
[whacking]
So Chuck, we have lost another one.
They feel good.
They're light, they're fast, they're sharp.
But they're coming apart.
So Chuck, the bottom line is, with this kind of damage,
I can't safely continue to test these.
I understand.
All right.
Chuck, now we have a vote of no confidence from the judges
to move forward in this testing.
And for that reason, I have to ask
you to please leave the forge. - Thanks.
You put on a good fight.
I don't mind losing to Rebel.
He came up with a brilliant design.
I may not have won, but I always figured if I can get a good
it'll kill out of Dough, I won.
And I did.
And I'm pretty excited about that.