pablo striker congratulations the two of you are moving forward into round three of our competition
which means one of you will leave here the winner of the fortune fire christmas competition along
with a gift of ten thousand dollars now in round three of the competition we are
sending you back home to work on one of the most iconic blades from u.s history and that weapon is
george washington's battle sword
george washington famously wielded this iconic sword when the british surrendered in the battle
of yorktown during the american revolution built by prominent swordsmith john bailey the weapon
features an ornate green dyed ivory handle with a slightly curved blade with a fuller
on both sides capable of delivering quick lethal cuts in the heat of battle the sword is carried
by general washington in the oil painting titled washington crossing the delaware which depicts the
event that took place on christmas night 1776. you will have four days to work on your george
washington swords so do your best work we'll see you back here in four days good luck brother
today's day one it definitely feels good to be in the finals big blessing i have
to make george washington's battle sword very intricate sword but i'm confident in
my skills i'm confident that i can build a good weapon so this sword has a slight swoop
he's starting to do it on his own so i'm just going to keep it that
way so i'm going to do my cutting edge on this side i'm going to grind in the fuller
all right pretty good day shape is getting there
here we are back at my forge so away we go
this is really a beautiful piece of history that we're making i'm really hoping that i can
bring it and people say that's that's george washington's battle sword the power hammer is
doing great pull all the steel right about where i wanted it but she's a heavy blade right now
it's definitely needing to lose some weight
so i'm gonna grind this down and start pulling some serious weight off of it
so far i've got the blade mostly where i want it to today i'm gonna be working on the handle in
the guard and hopefully i'll quench tonight so all this chunks of metal eventually it's going
to lead to a counter guard s guard handle and then it's a butt cap at the end of the handle
the handle is very intricate this is probably one of the hardest things that i've ever had to do
all right we are going to quench i'm going back and forth on the forge uh
i'm wanting to get an equal heat throughout the blade all right we're gonna go for it
oh my gosh wow yeah it's grabbing on
i think we might need to quench again you don't want to quench more than once
really the first quench should be the quench and you know as you continue to quench and
it can become too brittle and it can break i'd hate to re-quench again but we need a hard blade
seems good it's day two got the blade forged out for the most part i'm actually going to beat
this thing over so that it has the right curve on it this is the schwacker board
and it's going to conform to this piece of wood right here
i'm looking down at the blade and i see there are two complex bends in this one is twisting
to the left one is twisting to the right and the one that's twisting to the right
is actually sitting right where the tang meets the blade itself in a very critical juncture
not what i want to do right now this is going to start adding time that i don't have
it is slowly coming out as i'm tapping on it and working it back and forth back and forth
very nice complete sigh of relief we're now on day three i want to get the sword for the most
part done today feeling pretty good about it and work on the cleaning up the fuller
i'm gonna try a different approach to try to get deeper fuller in my blade
i'm going to be really careful with this one i don't want to overheat this thing
worst thing that could possibly have happened happened i'm gonna have to start all over again
two days gone i think i clamped it down when it was still too brittle wow maybe i should have
tempered it you know first this is a nightmare this is like a major setback i'm gonna i'm gonna
take five minutes my sword is completely split in half i'm in shock i don't i don't know what to
i've got to start all over again all right i'm going to make a sword in one day when something
difficult happens it's not in me to just quit i want to show my kids hard work pays off
i've gotta hammer this thing out as quickly as i can just beast mode i gotta i gotta get this done
hopefully we'll get this to where we need to get it tomorrow
day four of george washington's battle sword build i'm happy where i'm at voila i give you a handle
all right all i have to do is paint the handle and then polish fit and finish i have some salmon
i was gonna smoke up but let's first test the sword i couldn't have asked for any more on this
one for the first time ever making a sword like this i don't think i could have done much better
pablo striker welcome back to the forge guys you had four days to work on your renditions of the
george washington sword and they look fantastic but only one of you guys gonna be leaving here
with the best gift of all title of fortune fire champion and a check for ten thousand dollars
pablo how'd it go for you uh morning of day three i had to restart over my blade snapped in half so
how about the construction blade itself 1095 high carbon steel the counter blade the
s guard butt cap uh mild steel and then the inlay in the handle silver striker how about you how'd
your blade go my blade bro went pretty well the construction of the blade is adcrv and the
pommel and the guard are all made out of railroad spike well guys both your blades look absolutely
deadly but there's really only one way for us to find out which one of you guys is going to
take home the title and which one's going home with the love of coal the guys have
a few tests for you we've got a sharpness test we've got a strength test and up first the kill
late smiths welcome to the kill test
to find out what kind of lethal damage your weapon will do according to its iconic design
i will take your weapon and deliver some lethal blows on this big carcass
pablo here first you ready for this let's do it let's do it
there it is ooh very coarse two strikes does it suck right now i it was definitely my worst fear
well pablo tough break in two places looking at your grain structure is very coarse
you can see that from the heat treat also you have some discoloration
on parts of your blade right there which is a stress riser it will not kill i know
all right pablo well you did well with the piercing but seems that there was some grain
structure issues from the heat treatment and caused it to have a catastrophic failure during
the kill test but stryker you're not in the clear quite yet you've got to survive the
same amount of blows in order to call you the champion you ready for it i am let's go
i am scared out of my mind right now because it's not in the bag by any means
anything can happen at this point
it's one piece well striker you can breathe your blade made it through the kill test
so congratulations you are the fortune fire champion
pablo you fought really hard you definitely have what it takes to compete in the forge but
unfortunately i'm gonna have to ask you to please step off the fourth floor thank you guys
appreciate it take care probably take care i may not be a fortune fire champion but to have made
it this far has been a huge blessing i try to teach my boys that failure's not an option you
just got to try and try again so that's what i'm going to keep on doing trying and trying again i'm
not going to stop you know i hope they're proud of me well stryker congratulations you are the
fortune fire champion and that comes with a check for ten thousand dollars so congratulations man
well done thank you how do you feel i feel great a little uh surreal actually not a bad christmas
present no no no not a bad christmas present is all you gonna do with your ten thousand
dollars uh i haven't asked the wife yet perfect answer very overwhelmed on the entire thing
this has been a great experience it's been a wild ride but it's not over yet by any means
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