It'd be cool to see a bullet test where you shoot the side of a weapon instead of trying to cut it in half. It would probably only be possible on a bulky weapon but I feel like that'd be a more realistic scenario since aiming to slice a bullet would be extremely hard.
It sucks dude, I wish that I gave this body that I made now my experience of thousands upon thousands of years of smithing weapons and armor and what not, but I didn’t and the reason why I didn’t, because I don’t wanna be bothered to make nearly indestructible swords for people.
If you look at the close up, the person who lost, his blade is definitely crude and unpolished. The other guy though understood that the katana is an artpiece and it looks the part.
Imagine: "There could only be one winner and you two are matched. With that said, you will duel to the death using your Katanas and whoever lives, is the Forge & Fire champion. Keal each other. Good luck."
Inb4 someone says they'll get the popcorn, but be sad cause they expected neckbeards.., not Experienced smith's who didn't study the blade.., "They Made It"
I haven't seen that test any more for a couple of seasons. The best were the latter tests, when Wil Willis hand fired the gun, so much more impressive.
Rich made an extremely impressive katana w/out a auto hammer or other fancy machines. Forged by hand w/ a simple quench tank & even after his first blade cracked. It cut cleanly, survived pushing through armor, & it's bullet proof! He should not be ashamed of his work. Between his & Matt's sword it had to come down to the finest of details!
He definitely messed up by trying to make a differentially hardened blade and quench it in water. Given that he was using modern steel and that his sword was gonna be used in some strength test, he should've forgone the differential hardening and just quench it in oil. Could've spent more time on the construction to make it nicer and maybe would have won.
@@mrkikyI mean, Rich did blade smithing part time, it’s not surprising the minor details got him. His blade performed the exact same as his opponent, he lost on design. That’s it. Rich is absurdly talented at this, he passed the hardness test with ease.
@@hyperstargaming6150 I think what got him wasn't lack of experience, but failure to view it as a timed competition and plan accordingly. Plus I can't remember a single instance where choosing a traditional technique or material paid off compared to using the strongest techniques/materials in the modern era. They pretty much never give points for historical accuracy. It's function first and then fit and finish, but the fit and finish can be modern as heck as long as it's well made.
The gentleman who won had 15years in the profession and a auto hammer it would have been good if both had auto hammer both maybe had better chance for equel handles
@@mrkiky Ryu used coal, no power hammers and had to improvise to adapt his homemade coal forge. He still beat a professional bladesmith with all the toys. It has happened .
Both swords were very well forged and were equal in blade quality. But, to be honest, the winner's sword made the better impression visually. However, I don't want to call the two swords "katana" because an original katana has a blade made of multi-folded steel with different properties of each blade component in terms of blade hardness and blade flexibility. It’s nearly impossible to forge such a blade during only five days.
The multi folded technique is the Traditional way to make katanas since metals at the time weren't the same quality we have today. So they multi folded it to spread out impurities evenly in the blade so it wouldn't snap if tapped at a specific spot. Most modern made katanas are forged like how they did here. Because modern metals are way stronger and have little to no impurities when compared to the samurai era.
in fact traditional katanas were made with 2 different types of steel. soft steel core (Shigane, low carbon rate) and a hard steel casing (Hagane, higher carbon rate). Tamahagane steel is obtained by heating (for three days) in a furnace between 1200 ° C and 1500 ° C. And btw, i just googled all of that, i don't claim to know anything about it, im just a rando who loves katanas XD
@@magbus401 Marketing BS, it looks cool so people pay for it whitout knowing what it is. Folding good steel actually makes it weaker because you hammer some of the carbon out of material. Folding steel is done with bad materials so they can balance out the weak bits to make a stronger piece together but with good materials you just ruin a good piece of metal by folding it.
That kill test... The katana was generally not used on the battlefield where the enemy was likely to be armored. If anything it was a backup weapon in those conditions, with a spear being the main weapon. Compared to axes and maces for example, swords are inferior against armor but they are more suited for parrying/blocking. That makes swords more versatile weapons and thus a superior choice to carry for self-defense. In other words, an unarmored test dummy would've been more realistic for testing the lethality of a katana.
Like you said, it was used as a backup against armored opponents. With an accurate slash or thrust you can find gaps in the armor, especially if you catch your opponent off guard
@@yissssss As a general rule they only wore armor if they were going into battle, otherwise they did not. Unless I've been misinformed, people would feel insulted if you wore armor during peace time because it implied that you thought they were planning to attack you.
@@HideousConformity Right, so if they were in a battle the other person would be wearing armor. Not sure why you're going full pedantic weeb on this. It's a really weird hill to die on.
@@zachow1988 I hope to go back to Japan next year and see if it can literally do that. Hopefully he is still around, he was a gentleman and very happy to show how he did things.
@@bman296 imagine if that samurai honed his skills for baseball or hockey instead of being a samurai.... He would've been one of the elites. He had super human hand eye coordination.
the curve of a katana is achieved in a process called differential hardening and it ensures that the edge of the blade is as hard as possible while the rest of the blade is soft. differential hardening uses a thin layer of clay on the edge and a thick layer on the rest of the blade the thin layer of clay allows the edge of the katana to cool down and contract faster than the rest of the blade creating an even curve. The weapons made in this video (while effective) are more of a chokuto which is basically a straight katana.
that was the STUPIDEST AND MOST AWESOME way to test a sword's durability. and I mean stupid like Escape from LA where it's just so ridiculous it's amazing! they shot a sword and BOTH were absolutely freaking astonishing!
One thing everyone always gets wrong about folding steel is you are not folding steel into stronger steel the folding process was born to create steel from iron and what it did is it would squeeze the impurities out of the iron and the process would forge a rudimentary steel but if the problem of too many folds came about it would revert the steel back into iron because of the carbon being squeezed out as well and the fold technique in the modern era is completely useless as melting down and forging steel is much more efficient and produces a much higher grade of steel
Most anyone that has done some blade forging will know, that neither of those were Katana's. A real katana is forged from tamahagane, and takes much longer than 4 days to craft. Nice job, though! They both survived the tests.
They were a both good blades but to me it seemed like they were focused on look than ability cause it seemed to do better in all 3 challenges. No problems cutting the fish where the other just barely missed that last cut, Did better job killing with what seemed overall better wounding, And left 0 marks on the blade where the other still had marks from the bullet.
The "marks from the bullet" weren't marks on the sword. It was a layer of lead from the bullet that stayed on the sword. Has nothing to do with how strong/durable sword is but more on how the bullet hit the sword.
Sorry if I will trigger anyone, but in my opinion, the blades both lacked in one major thing: The Curve. Both were extremely straight for a katana. The cut power comes from the curve. They should have put an ash-clay mixture on the outside back of the blade so that the quenching makes that the edge of the blade cools faster, thus expanding quicker, making the ICONIC curve.
Matt deserved to win seeing as how he ACTUALLY forged his sword where as the other dude just cut his out of pre made steel. What a cheap way to go. He cut corners which is why he lost.
We could not have asked for a BETTER pilot episode to this amazing show. And considering how iconic the Japanese Katana is, we probably couldn't have asked for a more appropriate debut Round 3 weapon as well.
I've actually seen Real Katanas, made in Japan for actual Samurai, never seen a blade so beautiful and perfectly made, owning a Katana is a dream for me. It would be such a privilege...
In my opinion thats a katana but not japanese because japanese katana is layered steel and mostly 2 type mo metal inside soft inside and hard outside but i grt the logic original katana takes month to make so they did a better job for time they given
A traditional Japanese sword can take more than 18 months to make. And another 2 months to polish and sharpen. You can disassemble them easily, and everything but the blade should be easily replaceable.
Something many people miss is that when you fold the steel it actually does add to the durability, you do this at least 15 to 20 Times , but legendary samurai had they're swords folded hundreds of times , another key factor is the core , if you cut a traditional katana in half theres a soft iron in the middle, this passes through vibrations (that cause breakage of the blade) to pass through ugh and makes the blade almost unbreakable
Why did the guy who didn't get a clean fish cut and also had a more wobbly bullet split win? Seemed like a small edge on the kill test but I would have leaned to the other guy since he won 2/3 challenges.
My only problem with this episode was giving them only 5 days to create the swords. Some of the best katanas take a minimum of 30 days. The best I've ever had the pleasure of using took the Smith just over a year to create.
This is the competition that has left me the most confused and that has seemed to me to be a joke. The loser's sword was better in all 3 tests. In the fish it cut cleanly, while the other one needed one more cut. In the test of death it could be a tie and in the test of the shot, it is clearly seen that in the winning sword there is a mark of the bullet and in the losing one there is no mark of the bullet.
Anybody that knows anything about katanas knows these guys didn’t make real Katanas but rather just a sword that looks like one. Real katanas should be made with steel folded over and over again to create micro layers that strengthen the Steel but also gives the steel a softness that allows it to be just perfectly flexible for impacts. These swords were literally just steel blocks shaped into a katana style blade.
Exactly. I watched documentaries on how real katana sword were made in japan its more complicated. The katana swords shown here in this show were not real katana rather they were cloned. They were not made in the exact process.
ik i would find these, LET THE WORLD REITERATE FOR THE NINTH TIME, HIGH QUALITY STEEL SHOULDNT BE FOLDED, IT WILL WEAKEN. GOOD QUALITE HERMITE WASNT AVAILABLE TO JAPAN BACK THEN, SO THEY FOLDED THE IRON TO SPREAD THE IMPURITE( ur micro fold is talking about impurity spread) AS JAPAN IS ACRIPELIGO.
Considering it takes 72 hours just to make the Tamahagane then you must sort , combine and fold it then spend months polishing and sharpening . These are primitive at best .
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It'd be cool to see a bullet test where you shoot the side of a weapon instead of trying to cut it in half. It would probably only be possible on a bulky weapon but I feel like that'd be a more realistic scenario since aiming to slice a bullet would be extremely hard.
I like watching this so much that I let go 1 of the kids in my basement
It sucks dude, I wish that I gave this body that I made now my experience of thousands upon thousands of years of smithing weapons and armor and what not, but I didn’t and the reason why I didn’t, because I don’t wanna be bothered to make nearly indestructible swords for people.
dude miss the fish
A cheap butter knife will split a bullet. Just so you know next time.
I would love to see them say "Both of you are the Forged in Fire champions." because both of those guys deserved to win!
My thoughts exactly.
They where so good that I let go one of the kids in my basement
If you look at the close up, the person who lost, his blade is definitely crude and unpolished. The other guy though understood that the katana is an artpiece and it looks the part.
Unfortunately….there can only be one winner
@@FourLuckyLeafs I live with snide your walls
Two of the best blades and best beards on this show.
Pretty sure they had 5 days and in the newer seasons they have less time. Still amazing blades though.
So good that I let go a kid that was in my basement
when beards meets blades
@@HiBye-zj9me Did you really?
@@geodav5700 yes
Imagine:
"There could only be one winner and you two are matched. With that said, you will duel to the death using your Katanas and whoever lives, is the Forge & Fire champion. Keal each other. Good luck."
3AM thoughts
hahahaha it would have been epic
Inb4 someone says they'll get the popcorn, but be sad cause they expected neckbeards.., not Experienced smith's who didn't study the blade..,
"They Made It"
wrrr
for just 10k?
The runner up should be proud of himself . Nice Job .
No matter how you say it, he lost, LOSER is what he will be seeing in the mirror
@@joeylee9809 calm down big bollocks why don't you show us all your katana?
@@joeylee9809 show us your blacksmith skills
Thank you! And sorry @joey lee I never did see that in the mirror…lol
Meh... he cheated. He cut his sword from pre made steel. Where as Matt, who won, actually forged his.
Both wore green, both had luscious beards, both forged truly excellent weapons. Good episode.
The bullet splitting was so cool! Well done to these guys!
I haven't seen that test any more for a couple of seasons. The best were the latter tests, when Wil Willis hand fired the gun, so much more impressive.
Give Ben 8 hours and he’ll make a Katana that shoots bullet back in a gun test 🤣
So, a gunblade? 🤔 😂
@@ragingjaguarknight86 why does the name Leon pop into my head?
@@justincameron9661 ah, you know him from Kingdom Hearts. I know him from FF VIII. He was "Squall Leonhart" to me. 😎👍
@@ragingjaguarknight86 ah thats why
a gunblade?????? is that even possible?
Rich made an extremely impressive katana w/out a auto hammer or other fancy machines. Forged by hand w/ a simple quench tank & even after his first blade cracked. It cut cleanly, survived pushing through armor, & it's bullet proof! He should not be ashamed of his work. Between his & Matt's sword it had to come down to the finest of details!
He definitely messed up by trying to make a differentially hardened blade and quench it in water. Given that he was using modern steel and that his sword was gonna be used in some strength test, he should've forgone the differential hardening and just quench it in oil. Could've spent more time on the construction to make it nicer and maybe would have won.
@@mrkikyI mean, Rich did blade smithing part time, it’s not surprising the minor details got him. His blade performed the exact same as his opponent, he lost on design. That’s it. Rich is absurdly talented at this, he passed the hardness test with ease.
@@hyperstargaming6150 I think what got him wasn't lack of experience, but failure to view it as a timed competition and plan accordingly. Plus I can't remember a single instance where choosing a traditional technique or material paid off compared to using the strongest techniques/materials in the modern era. They pretty much never give points for historical accuracy. It's function first and then fit and finish, but the fit and finish can be modern as heck as long as it's well made.
The gentleman who won had 15years in the profession and a auto hammer it would have been good if both had auto hammer both maybe had better chance for equel handles
@@mrkiky Ryu used coal, no power hammers and had to improvise to adapt his homemade coal forge. He still beat a professional bladesmith with all the toys. It has happened .
Both swords were very well forged and were equal in blade quality. But, to be honest, the winner's sword made the better impression visually. However, I don't want to call the two swords "katana" because an original katana has a blade made of multi-folded steel with different properties of each blade component in terms of blade hardness and blade flexibility.
It’s nearly impossible to forge such a blade during only five days.
cant even properly polish one in 5 days!
The multi folded technique is the Traditional way to make katanas since metals at the time weren't the same quality we have today. So they multi folded it to spread out impurities evenly in the blade so it wouldn't snap if tapped at a specific spot.
Most modern made katanas are forged like how they did here. Because modern metals are way stronger and have little to no impurities when compared to the samurai era.
in fact traditional katanas were made with 2 different types of steel. soft steel core (Shigane, low carbon rate) and a hard steel casing (Hagane, higher carbon rate). Tamahagane steel is obtained by heating (for three days) in a furnace between 1200 ° C and 1500 ° C. And btw, i just googled all of that, i don't claim to know anything about it, im just a rando who loves katanas XD
they were muilti folded cuz japan has trash iron. So they used that techique to fold it to improve hardness via spresding the impurites evenly
@@charlieflight6124 that and differential hardening
If they can make a Katana that well in just 5 days, Just imagined how much better the Katana would be if they have 1 Month to make it.
Imagine it would be a hundred times better if they used thebtraditional way of making katana
@@buck5021 except no because they only folded the steel back then to rid the metal of impurities since the grade of metal they used wasn’t really good
@@Imgonnakmsstg then why is the Japanese kitchen knife made by the same method and the same steel is expansive and the most sort after Chef knife?
@@Imgonnakmsstg he’s referring to differential hardening
@@magbus401 Marketing BS, it looks cool so people pay for it whitout knowing what it is. Folding good steel actually makes it weaker because you hammer some of the carbon out of material. Folding steel is done with bad materials so they can balance out the weak bits to make a stronger piece together but with good materials you just ruin a good piece of metal by folding it.
It's crazy seeing how much this show has grown over the years. This first season feels so different from season eight!
Lies again? Alpha Male Samurai Burger
When it's as close as that, it really needs to be a fight to the death, using your own weapon...
Lmao
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
"It has killed"
The REAL kill test!
LOL
That kill test... The katana was generally not used on the battlefield where the enemy was likely to be armored. If anything it was a backup weapon in those conditions, with a spear being the main weapon. Compared to axes and maces for example, swords are inferior against armor but they are more suited for parrying/blocking. That makes swords more versatile weapons and thus a superior choice to carry for self-defense. In other words, an unarmored test dummy would've been more realistic for testing the lethality of a katana.
Like you said, it was used as a backup against armored opponents. With an accurate slash or thrust you can find gaps in the armor, especially if you catch your opponent off guard
Samurai all wore armor.
@@yissssss As a general rule they only wore armor if they were going into battle, otherwise they did not. Unless I've been misinformed, people would feel insulted if you wore armor during peace time because it implied that you thought they were planning to attack you.
@@HideousConformity Right, so if they were in a battle the other person would be wearing armor. Not sure why you're going full pedantic weeb on this. It's a really weird hill to die on.
@@yissssss It's just a topic they're intrested in and are quite knowledgeable. No need to resort to insults.
Sharpest Katana I have ever seen was one made by Yoshindo Yoshihara. Dropping a tissue on the blade made it split perfectly under it's own weight.
Now that's sharp af. That could probably split a hair
@@zachow1988 I hope to go back to Japan next year and see if it can literally do that. Hopefully he is still around, he was a gentleman and very happy to show how he did things.
@@ninjapants7688 what generation blacksmith was he?
@@zachow1988 I just checked his book "The Art of the Japanese Sword" and it says he is 13th generation.
I remember seeing that in The Bodyguard movie.
This episode is old, Doug doesn't even say It will KEALLLL.
Blew my mind
Season 1 talk for itself 😂
@@vojtechkopac5899 Yeah, actually, this is THE FIRST EPISODE of FiF.
@@dxsprint9921 Oh wow. Didn't realize that.
@VoxPixels And?
Testing the katana's ability to split a bullet. Because we all know the samurai's greatest tactic was in deflecting gunfire with their swords...
While not a live round someone actually managed to split a bb pellet in half after it was fired.
Aren't they testing durability? Not actuality?
@@bman296 which is even more impressive considering a bb is 6mm in diameter
@@gagida1829 Yeah, think the dude is in the book of world records for fastest reaction time
@@bman296 imagine if that samurai honed his skills for baseball or hockey instead of being a samurai.... He would've been one of the elites. He had super human hand eye coordination.
I miss the seasons where they'd give an explanation for why they didn't win, or what specific/finer details gave the winner their winning edge.
6:48 that "What" felt really like he had no idea how crazy this show would get
An expert katana blacksmith takes about 1 1/2 years to make one, they did it in 5 days. Must be the breads.
White or Wholemeal?.
Mmmm breads
@@macman975 😂
They had unlimted budget
Cuz they are not real katanas
They got so good with the production of this show as the seasons went on my goodness
Actually watching the reruns now. Have you guys ever thought of doing a sci fi episode? Would love to see you guys trying the kligon bat'leth.
That would be very interesting to see
Can't wait!
Matt looks like the type that has a lot of katanas
you can tell lol, his katana deserves to be up on a wall
And a trunk full of hookers...
It is really something to be able to see the curve of the blade appear in real time on the quench
Even though it cracked, 1:45 was a really cool shot seeing the curve go into that straight piece of metal
Japanese here. Katanas are supposed to be very traditional and ceremonial, I’m not a fan of how they are using it but cool video
Dumb 😂
Thanks for putting the show on youtube!
The kill test is always funny to me knowing that a kitchen knife has the capability of killing lol
the curve of a katana is achieved in a process called differential hardening and it ensures that the edge of the blade is as hard as possible while the rest of the blade is soft. differential hardening uses a thin layer of clay on the edge and a thick layer on the rest of the blade the thin layer of clay allows the edge of the katana to cool down and contract faster than the rest of the blade creating an even curve. The weapons made in this video (while effective) are more of a chokuto which is basically a straight katana.
FINALLY someone caught it
idk, straight katana seems sexier now n days..,
“We’re heading to the gun range.”
*”what.”*
Its amazing how its being bent when its being cooled in the water at 1:46.
That is exactly how they were curved. They were heated up straight but once they're dumped into water they curve.
"I have been a blacksmith for 15 years"
Bio: 20 Years Experience
Who needs Netflix when they literally put the show on TH-cam?
No losers on this episode. Both smith’s did outstanding work and the bullet test proved it. 💯
You know little about blades or bullets then lol 😆
Bro made his blade the way the smiths of old would approve of
One guy made it by hand, the other had an entire metal shop at his disposal. Just have to say that.
that was the STUPIDEST AND MOST AWESOME way to test a sword's durability. and I mean stupid like Escape from LA where it's just so ridiculous it's amazing! they shot a sword and BOTH were absolutely freaking astonishing!
One thing everyone always gets wrong about folding steel is you are not folding steel into stronger steel the folding process was born to create steel from iron and what it did is it would squeeze the impurities out of the iron and the process would forge a rudimentary steel but if the problem of too many folds came about it would revert the steel back into iron because of the carbon being squeezed out as well and the fold technique in the modern era is completely useless as melting down and forging steel is much more efficient and produces a much higher grade of steel
Most anyone that has done some blade forging will know, that neither of those were Katana's. A real katana is forged from tamahagane, and takes much longer than 4 days to craft.
Nice job, though! They both survived the tests.
They were a both good blades but to me it seemed like they were focused on look than ability cause it seemed to do better in all 3 challenges. No problems cutting the fish where the other just barely missed that last cut, Did better job killing with what seemed overall better wounding, And left 0 marks on the blade where the other still had marks from the bullet.
The "marks from the bullet" weren't marks on the sword. It was a layer of lead from the bullet that stayed on the sword. Has nothing to do with how strong/durable sword is but more on how the bullet hit the sword.
It barely missed the last cut because of faulty edge alignment on the part of the judge. They knew that, hence why they didn't penalise him for it.
Both nice Blades they both turned in winners 🗡️💯⚔️
Sorry if I will trigger anyone, but in my opinion, the blades both lacked in one major thing: The Curve. Both were extremely straight for a katana. The cut power comes from the curve. They should have put an ash-clay mixture on the outside back of the blade so that the quenching makes that the edge of the blade cools faster, thus expanding quicker, making the ICONIC curve.
Just remember they only had 4-5 days to make a decent katana .
I really admire the Katana. Its a real sense of honor and discipline.
Both was amazing demonstration of their skill
It’s nice to have a fellow Connecticut citizen on this show
Matt deserved to win seeing as how he ACTUALLY forged his sword where as the other dude just cut his out of pre made steel. What a cheap way to go. He cut corners which is why he lost.
3:44 this sound is from Shadow fight 2 Graveyard.
Well deserved win, truly beautiful.
Explain to me how it is well deserved.
@@rubydiseno9406 explain to me why I should explain it to you.
@VoxPixels the other guy's tests were better.
@@rubydiseno9406only better test was kill, doug said matts blade felt better and lighter
May I think that both deserve to win
Make them both the Forge and Fire Champion. Just split the 10k into 5k for these amazing smiths!
This was so so so close, both swords were incredible.
Or just give each of them 10K each. The show has billions of dollars it's no big deal to them.
@@eric63377 According to the American system, there can only be one winner, a tie is impossible.
this matchup looks like a handicap match , with 17 years +/- of difference in experience...
wow! great results, both contenders!
9:49 he said he gon kiss who
Son
Forged in fire should make a gunsmithing show.
Once you pass the kill test you are unstoppable.
We could not have asked for a BETTER pilot episode to this amazing show. And considering how iconic the Japanese Katana is, we probably couldn't have asked for a more appropriate debut Round 3 weapon as well.
形が刀に似ているだけでこれは日本刀とは言いません
When u having nothing to watch at 1 am lol
Well deserved and nice variation of a traditional handle.
Lmfao when it showed them both holding their swords at the end decision scene I thought he was going to say "FIGHT" and the last one standing wins
I've actually seen Real Katanas, made in Japan for actual Samurai, never seen a blade so beautiful and perfectly made, owning a Katana is a dream for me. It would be such a privilege...
dont have katana with blade down or the blade will get dull 0:21
Everyone with safety Glasses and the PHAT Dude is with DIVINE GLASSES
that is not a japanese katana... it's just a hillbilly steel blade.
Hey Mister Kurosawa, if you can make a better sword, get off your rump and do it. If not, zip it.
In my opinion thats a katana but not japanese because japanese katana is layered steel and mostly 2 type mo metal inside soft inside and hard outside but i grt the logic original katana takes month to make so they did a better job for time they given
@cheyred5602 it's not Japanese because Americans made it fym
The whole blade design and handle design does not look like a kanata.
Mat is a true father, so wholesome
🤮
@@markhepworth7822 What’s gross about that?
A traditional Japanese sword can take more than 18 months to make. And another 2 months to polish and sharpen. You can disassemble them easily, and everything but the blade should be easily replaceable.
Single greatest melee weapon in human history...and one of the most BEAUTIFUL weapons in human history!
interesting how "splitting a bullet" is a part of the competition. Because a regular ol butter knife can split bullets.
thats what i thought as well
like steel is way harder than lead of course the bullet will get split
I think it’s just about seeing how much it damages the edge
@@reitoshiro5605 there are way too many variables for it to be that simple
Splitting bullets, that's crazy!
Rich’s first blade would have gone well if he had used a traditional clay method
I did, the blade was actually to hot, the lighting made it difficult to judge the temperature and I over heated it, it was my own mistake.
Something many people miss is that when you fold the steel it actually does add to the durability, you do this at least 15 to 20 Times , but legendary samurai had they're swords folded hundreds of times , another key factor is the core , if you cut a traditional katana in half theres a soft iron in the middle, this passes through vibrations (that cause breakage of the blade) to pass through ugh and makes the blade almost unbreakable
Has the bullet test ever actually broken a blade?
I haven't seen it happen yet.
I've only seen minor damage. Seems like it's more about the spectacle, ya know?
🤣
Agreed. Never seen it break a blade. Bullet is soft lead against hard steel.
6:50 LMAO THAT HAD ME DYING
The Oni no Hanzo is still hidden in my scabbard..
It is not time yet.
Matts blade was unbelievable.
Why did the guy who didn't get a clean fish cut and also had a more wobbly bullet split win? Seemed like a small edge on the kill test but I would have leaned to the other guy since he won 2/3 challenges.
Narrator: “The Katana was forged from the purest steel-“
Me: “-Wha-“
Narrator: “-available”
Me: “… ok, that’s fair.”
I like how the katana they displayed looked like a 50$ Amazon “katana”
My only problem with this episode was giving them only 5 days to create the swords. Some of the best katanas take a minimum of 30 days. The best I've ever had the pleasure of using took the Smith just over a year to create.
Fun fact, the katanas curved blade was for going around an enemy's shield
The fish : 👁👄👁
This is the competition that has left me the most confused and that has seemed to me to be a joke. The loser's sword was better in all 3 tests. In the fish it cut cleanly, while the other one needed one more cut. In the test of death it could be a tie and in the test of the shot, it is clearly seen that in the winning sword there is a mark of the bullet and in the losing one there is no mark of the bullet.
How evenly blades they made... Amazing
*When you make a sword that outclassed the competition by miles and you still lose because the sword wasn't fancy*
I will never throw someone out of show , who is holding katana. At last I was thinking the other guy is going for the head of 3 judges.
“We’re heading to the Gun Range”
Matt: “What?”
New Episodes please 😭😭
Still imo the two best ever to be on the show.
None of those swords are katanas ....
The bullet slicing part was the most interesting part.
Katana was a back up weapon very rarely used on the battlefield
yeah, poisoned shurikens are way better. the moment you notice you are hit, you know you only have a few seconds left to live.
Indeed, it was more akin to a pistol being a sidearm. While the main weapons would either be a bow or polearms.
fun fact, the steel used in traditional katana forging was HIGHLY impure, they folded it many times to drive out the impurities
Anybody that knows anything about katanas knows these guys didn’t make real Katanas but rather just a sword that looks like one. Real katanas should be made with steel folded over and over again to create micro layers that strengthen the Steel but also gives the steel a softness that allows it to be just perfectly flexible for impacts. These swords were literally just steel blocks shaped into a katana style blade.
Exactly. I watched documentaries on how real katana sword were made in japan its more complicated. The katana swords shown here in this show were not real katana rather they were cloned. They were not made in the exact process.
Thank you... I didn't have the effort to type it but you are 1000% correct.
Still pretty decent weapons for being made in 5 days, imagine if they had the time to go through the super long process
ik i would find these, LET THE WORLD REITERATE FOR THE NINTH TIME, HIGH QUALITY STEEL SHOULDNT BE FOLDED, IT WILL WEAKEN. GOOD QUALITE HERMITE WASNT AVAILABLE TO JAPAN BACK THEN, SO THEY FOLDED THE IRON TO SPREAD THE IMPURITE( ur micro fold is talking about impurity spread) AS JAPAN IS ACRIPELIGO.
Folding it over and over just made katanas worse lmao. They just had to do it because the steel was so rich with impurities
I cried when I saw the katanas blade facing down when they unveiled it 😭😩
Japanese make katana for 18 months.. they have 5 days..
0:36 I Tatsu...now lead! For any who challenge, step forward!
Its a shame that none of the blacksmiths that won ever tried out their sword/ weapon on a test dummy themselves before handing in their blade. :-/
"We're heading to the gun range".
"What"? 😂😂😂😂😂
A lot of redditors in the comments who speak like they've apprenticed under the ghost of a samurai and handcrafted their own katanas.
I am Japanese, this is not katana.
A true katana is beautiful and strong beyond your imagination.
Considering it takes 72 hours just to make the Tamahagane then you must sort , combine and fold it then spend months polishing and sharpening . These are primitive at best .
It was folded in older times because japan iron was horrible, nowdays the steel out does how ever folded iron metal its made from