I'm currently on travel I'm watching a marathon of the forged in fire TV show. I'm a little surprised I haven't heard much of it on the forums considering the amount of straight users and fine cutlery aficionados. Anybody else watching the show?
Forged in Fire
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I love the show. Me and my son watch it all the time - "This blade will Keel". I thought the best was when they had to make a Hunga Munga! I never heard of it before. We were laughing are asses off because it looked like a weapon Prince would have used - looked like his symbol name, plus who can take the term Hunga Munga seriously? Great show. We also joke that one day they will have to make razors because of my hobby.
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I like it. Not sure about some of the competitive elements.
It looks interesting. What is the "forced personal drama" to "learn about forging stuff" ratio? I find that a lot of these types of shows spend more time showing folks pretend to have melt-downs and rush to meet artificial time hacks than educate the viewer on what they are actually doing.
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It's somewhat informative. I certainly understand Damascus steel and how it's made far better now.
Not bad. Sometimes they flat out give the contestants a nice piece of metal to start with. Other times they'll provide them with scrap, lawn mover, car, etc and instruct them to salvage a piece of metal to make a knife.
The show breaks down into:
- 1/4 of show for initial design and forging of the knife (1 elimination out of 4 smiths)
- 1/4 of show to finalize the knife and add a handle and test the knife (1 elimination)
- 1/4 of show to create the themed weapon of the episode at their home forge (last 2 smiths)
- 1/4 of show to test the weapons and declare the winner.
I wasn't aware of this show. Seems like my kind of thing, I'll try to track down some episodes.
I watch the show. Its pretty cool.
i watch it, though i do find some elements to be put in to force issues, such as one episode a contestant grabbed twelve hour epoxy for their handle job. so if they only have roughly 6 hours in the first two sections why would they even have that as an option? as well as some of the tests, like hacking through cow bones and such, not to mention the tests change every episode. they really should have consistent test for the first portions of the show. its entertaining, falls well behind the curve of competition shows that follow the same structure. ive been toying with making my own knives for a bit, learning from walter sorrels, who was a contestant. he was eliminated because his wakizashi snapped after being hit against a cow bone.
I got sick, so was at home to binge watch a bunch of episodes I found to download. I probably find it more entertaining than I should. I liked Iron Chef, and watched it, even though I do not get into cooking too much. This is Iron Chef with knives and swords, so that is perfect for me to stare at while I am sneezing in bed.
Moderately interesting but cheesy and contrived. YMMV.
It's a game show, are there any that aren't somewhat cheesy and contrived?
You're spot on, Pebcak.
Has anyone noticed that the great catch line "It will keeeel" has been changed to "It will cut"
I think I need to check this out
Doug uses both. If the test is a cutting test he'll say, "It will cut." They have some "killing tests" with the theme weapon. During those, we get "it will keeel."
I think his name is Doug. The martial artist ( expert ) how he takes the blade and swirls it around like he's fighting 2 or 3 people. Makes me want to puke.
It's Doug Marcaida. He does Kali and Filipino martial arts and actually is a pretty well renowned edged weapons specialist. Filipino martial arts are based on a lot of circular motions.
They are making weapons on that show. What he's doing is checking how the weapon indexes in his hand, the balance and recovery of it. The other judges do it before a chop as well, just their usage and training are different, so the swings they make are different.
Same as when people get a new hammer or an axe, you test your tool.
The show has it's cheesy moments, but the movements he's making are legit and for a purpose.
Thanks Shawn for clearing that up for me. Still cheesy.
I agree there is a lot of stuff in that show that doesn't need to be there. More so in the most recent seasons.
As mentioned above, in a shop where you have no more than 3 hours for any stage, why would you even have 12 or 24 hour epoxy.... Stuff like that.
I don't know why the writer thinks they have to put in just because every other show on tv has some kind of trashy drama in it. Can't we have something that isn't trying to be jersy shore?
