Forged in Fire (Show at History Channel) April 18, 2016 03:05AM |
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SVallieres
Hello guys,
I guess many of you are aware of this show at History Channel. For my part, I wasn't aware of it until recently as I have only the french version of History Channel and they have now been airing the first season in french for a couple of weeks only.
I don't understand how they can produce a functional blade in three hours (yes 3 hours!) as only a basic hardening heat treatment (quench + 2x2h temper cycles) is longer than 3 hours. Also, don't these blades require an additional heat treatment (before the hardening HT) to correct the defects induce by the forging process (which makes the whole process even longer)? Moreover, when they are grinding, the huge shower of sparks we can see tell me that they are probably over heating the steel quite a lot...
I understand that time constraints is part of the challenge, but since the goal is to produce a functional blade, I think 3 hours is ridiculous as not only a quality blade cannot be made in that time but it let the general public (non-knife people) believe it can be.
What do you think?
Re: Forged in Fire (Show at History Channel) April 20, 2016 08:24PM |
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oldsailorsknives
as far as time, 3 hours would be more than enough time if using basic high carbon steels. I have used 1084, 80CrV2, and O1 and find that 2 1hour tempers is plenty. I even a test for R. Landes where I tempered the 80CrV2 for 2 15minute tempers, could see no difference between those blades and ones tempered twice for 1 hour or blades tempered twice for 2 hours.
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Also, in the first season, instead on a knife being a tool, they prefer to call it a 'weapon', ...
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