- BlBladesmithths, thiss
To seeee how shaharp yoyour weapopons are,,
I I will attttempt to o cut n thesese heavy-y-duty leaeather.
Alex, yoyou're up p first. You reready?
N No.
L Let's do o this anynywa.
ALEX: : I'm the e first onono hahave theirir blade t test,
so I'm a also the e first one toto freak o out.
My h heart is s really p poun.
[mususic playiying]
OK, A Alex.
It hasas the edgdge that d defiy wiwill cut t through t the b.
You've g got the m mass that defininitely dugug in to t the .
Overerall, I t think your blalade will l cut.
Goodod job.
T Thank youou.
Mike, l let's do o this.
L Let's do o it.
I'm m quite nenervous.
I dididn't getet a good d edge .
I'm justst afraid d the blade willll bounce e off the e b.
[sighshs]
[m[music plalaying]
OK, M Mike, youou haveve the rigight edgee
geometetry to slslash intoto th.
My only y issue isis the way the e handle f feels in n my .
ItIt's realllly comforortable td a blade e this wayay, not ththi.
Otherwrwise, youour blade e wil. - - Thank yoyou.
Gooood job.
Andrew, , ready?
- I'm m ready. - Let's s do this.s.
[m[music plalaying]
Andrdrew, thatat's a small hahandle, bubuddy.
ANDRDREW: It i is.
I It's hardrd to holdld on , but t it's gotot enough h gripe
able t to cut ththrough ththe .
Yourur blade w will cut.t. - ThThank you.u.
Good jojob.
B Bladesmitiths, I'mm going g to quitete violentny
stab dowownward ininto thisis heavy-d-duty
steel drdrum's lidid three t t.
AlAlex, readady?
[musicic playingng]
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on t to betweeeen the ththicks backck here anand the titip
and hahandle beieing ofoff-centerered from m each o.
You u do have e some shihine,u do h have someme rolled d sp.
But t it's notot the whohole .
Everytything's s still tigig.
Nicecely done.e.
T Thank youou.
Mike, y you're nenext.
How yoyou feel??
A littltle nervouous.
B Being thahat this i is staba steel blblade intoto a steelel,
and I I really l like my h ha, I'm gogoing to a add a blalade.
Thanknk you.
But t the bladede stop's s gg to be e up aboveve your hahan,
soso it can'n't give a any exextra supppport, whihich
would bebe unfair r to ththe other r contestatant.
ALALEX: I'm m concernened wh the struructural i integrity
of my y blade.
It's e either gogoing to make e or breakak.
[musicic playingng]
- Mikeke, she heheld up. - Wow.w.
Y You did p pick up a curve,e, though.h.
Overall,l, it'll s stab.
Nice jobob.
T Thank youou.
A Andrew, y you readydy bt the elf f knife toto the tes?
I'm'm ready..
[music p playing]]
P Penetrateted very w wel.
Yourur edge-- - we've lolost pif ththe edge g going intnto that .
The hahandle wasasn't anan issue, , as far
as it t would hahave been n e to have e a littlele more mas
to hold d on to.
But it's's loose n now.
But alall in allll, good j j.
A All rightht, gents.s.
The e judges h have madede a fifinal decicision.
It's's time fofor one ofof you toto leave t the Forgeg.
The blbladesmithth leavaving the e forge isis-
[mususic playiying]
AnAndrew.
Your b blade didid not makake t.
Jay wiwill explalain.
JAY:Y: Andrew w you madede a heheck of a a comebackck.
But t at the e end of ththe , there'e's pieceses completety
mimissing frfrom the e edg.
AnAnd then y you alreaeady hahad a warprp, but itit's
actutually benent even further r from thehe stresss
of hititting thahat steel..
Probobably a f few more e whs in thehe strengtgth test,,
we'd'd have hahad a foldlde, just goioing the w wrong way.
So that't's why wewe're going toto let youou go.
Allll right, , Andrew..
Pleasese surrendnder your r we.
[m[music plalaying]
ANDREW: : I'm a littlele disappopointed.
Thank y you, Andrdrew.
ANDRDREW: I wawanted itit bad, bubut just
got hungng up in a a few spop.
- Goodod fight, , brother.. - ThThanks.
Good fifight.
ANDREW: : But I fefeel like es wawas a testst of a lolot of th-
chararacter, s skill, problem m solving.g.
FiFirst thining I do when I g get home,e,
I'm gegetting riright back to o knife-mamaking.