Forged in Fire (2015–…): Season 1, Episode 2 - Chakram - full transcript

Since
the dawn of human civilization,

mankind has made weapons.

Whoa!

Bladesmiths have
honed and perfected their craft

over thousands of years.

And now, for
the first time ever,

these men will go head-to-head

and put their skills
to the ultimate test.

Welcome to the forge.

It starts
with a lump of raw steel

and a ticking clock,



and by the end of three rounds,

the bladesmiths must
deliver handmade weapons

that are works of art

as well as deadly
instruments of war.

These weapons must
survive explosive tests

as well as the scrutiny
of an expert panel judges.

In the end, only one bladesmith
will take home $10,000

and be crowned a
Forged in Firechampion.

My name is Trenton Tye.

I am not "Trent,
who is a blacksmith."

I am "Trent the blacksmith."

I'm Chad Harding.

I'm all about the
high-performance

blade and knife making.



It needs to exceed what you
can go to the store and buy.

My name is Christopher Farrell.

Being a professional bladesmith,
you don't make a lot of money.

Winning this competition

would make the next
year of operation costs

a lot easier to shoulder.

My name is Grant Marcoux.

I retired and opened up a
full-service blacksmith shop

where I hold classes

in basic and intermediate
bladesmithing.

Gentlemen.

Welcome to the forge.

Ahead of you are
three challenges

that are designed to see
just how good you really are.

After each round, you
will hand your work over

to our judges.

Internationally known
master smith J. Neilson.

World-renowned rare
weapons re-creation specialist

David Baker.

And, finally,
globally recognized

martial artist and
edged weapon specialist

Doug Marcaida.

They will decide
who gets to stay

and who has to go home.

In front of you on the tables,

you'll see a variety
of metal objects:

meat hooks, crowbars, chains,
mower blades, horseshoes.

Your challenge is
to take one or more

of these everyday items

and forge a fully functional
edged weapon of your own design.

This week, the blade
parameters are as follows.

The length of the blade,
not including the tang,

will be no less than
9 inches in length

and no more than
16 inches in length.

You will have three
hours to forge your blade.

Remember, once
the three hours is up,

one of you will be asked
to surrender his weapon

and go home.

Your time starts...

now.

Okay, here we go.

Chad grabbed a roller bearing.

So did Trenton.

You know, I notice
that Chris grabbed the file.

He grabbed a farrier's rasp,

big file with very big
teeth in it, big dips in it.

I don't know what
that metal is, but it's tough!

I choose the crowbar.

I know I can make a
tough knife out of it.

I mean, that's a big guy.

He picked a big piece of steel.

I want to see what he's up to.

My style of bladesmithing

would be considered
conservative and traditional.

I'm making a Sheffield
school bowie knife,

because it's a great vehicle

for expressing your
skill as a knifemaker.

There's a lot of ways to
embellish these knives.

Hot stuff! Hot stuff, baby.

I think in my next life,

I'm gonna get a
snow cone franchise.

We got a comedian on the floor.

I want to win this

so I can illustrate
to my students

that human beings
have been working metal

for over 3,000 years,

and you're standing on
the shoulders of giants.

Excuse me.

Hot metal!

Get your hot metal here!

[Chad voice-over I just
forged a couple bearing blades

a few days earlier, so
I'm gonna do bearings.

It's fresh in my mind.

It makes a great blade

if you can take your
time and do it right.

Suck ass.

My style of blade making
is Western influence.

My main focus is
creating a hunter

that serves more
than one purpose,

where you can walk into
the woods with one knife

and come out of the woods okay.

I am inspired

by blades from history,
and then I go off on a tangent

and I make something
in a way that conveys

how I see whatever the idea
is that popped into my head.

The farrier's rasp, it's
got so much character.

You can get a lot of
movement out of that steel.

You can get it to
tell a lot of stories.

I'm used to using old
files which are dull.

The farrier's rasp is
not old and not dull.

You know, I feel like
my hand's a little wet,

and I kind of get a glimpse.

I cut my finger open.

It's just a flesh wound.

So have we already
got some blood on the floor?

That's fine; I just
want to get back to work.

- Yes, ma'am.
- Okay.

Time just keeps moving,

so you have to keep moving.

My signature blade

is a drop-point hunter.

It is practical,
it is efficient,

and if there's anything that
I would have represent me,

that would be it.

And I pee harder
than this thing hits.

Roller
bearings are a type of steel

that is highly prized
in knifemaking.

I started hammer-forging
so that the blade was thinner.

I'm curious to see
what Trenton's going to do,

'cause that steel's
getting really thin.

That looks pretty lean.

I'm going to do everything I can

to make something
that, first, functions

and then, second,
looks really good.

Two hours, gentlemen!

You have two hours remaining!

After I was done bleeding,

you know, I set to getting back

to forging out the
tip of the blade.

Never have a plan.

Every time I make a plan,
the knife changes its mind.

It's basically just
opening communication.

It's just kind of like, you
know, introducing yourself.

"Hello, my name is
Chris. What is your name?"

I like the fact

that Chris has
been pacing himself.

Cool as a cucumber.

I want to be
in that moment with that piece

and see where it
wants to go and feel it.

Somebody turned
the heat on in here.

M a little
confused by Chad's blade.

I'm not sure what he's doing.

It's not going to be
anywhere near 9 inches.

That's gonna be
a pretty short knife.

I'm going to bring my blade
down just a little bit more,

and then I'm going to grind him.

I'm very confident in
my blade and design.

It's a perfect-shaped hunter,
and that's what I was making.

You got enough blade there?

Should have. Is it
9 inches overall?

It's supposed to
be a 9-inch blade.

I think that's 9 inches
not including the tang.

I was making a blade
under the requirements.

I had heard the
instructions wrong.

God!

I up.

I thought it was
9 inches overall,

not a 9-inch blade.

I was focusing
on a 6-inch hunter.

Oh, son of a bitch.

My heart just sunk.

I knew I had to start over.

I have to modify my blade.

I think there's still a chance.

So I'm trying to get the
maximum length I can

out of my useable steel

that I already have
time invested in.

I go to the forge, reheat,

start drawing out the
blade as much as I can,

'cause there's always a chance

that everything's
going to work out right.

90 minutes!

You have 90 minutes remaining!

This environment

is extremely stressful.

Whoo!

There is a furnace there

that's cooking out
at 2,000 degrees.

It's radiating heat.

When you're hot, you're hot.

You've got that
clock going up there,

and you've got this metal
that you have to make,

and it is intense.

Grant, I mean, I'm
really starting to worry.

He's sweating quite a bit.

I'm afraid he's
gonna hurt himself.

Yeah.

Step back and take a breath.

I do
kind of, like, glance about,

and I notice Grant's
having a little bit of trouble.

This is certainly
going to put him behind.

I don't like this.

I'm gonna stop the clock.

Can we get a medic on the floor?

Okay.

Okay, your pulse is fast.

- What's happening?
- Oh, no.

Okay.

The paramedic
needs to look at Grant.

We expecting to
see a recovery here?

Oh, yeah.

He doesn't look like a
guy that's gonna give up.

Okay, I'll drink some water,

and I'll rock and roll.

There we go.

The medic checked me out.

I know my own limitation.

And I had to get back to work.

The clock restarts...

now.

Heat it and beat it.
Heat it and beat it!

If you want to run
with the big dogs,

you got to get your
ass off the porch.

We've been watching

what's going on over
here with all the drama.

Meanwhile, Trenton over
there is just muscling along.

This blade looks awesome,

and I'm going to now
temper this blade.

As I put the blade in
the forge to get a preheat,

see a dark spot about
a quarter of an inch long.

You've got to be kidding me.

If you see a dark spot in
that blade while it's heating,

it's a crack.

Oh, Trenton's shaking his head.

Trenton's blade cracked.

At this point in
the competition,

how serious is a cracked blade?

Oh, extremely serious.

What you call a
beautiful failure.

But...

I got, what, 15 minutes?

If you can't do it with
A, try to do it with B.

If you can't do it with B,

that's where you have to
pull it out of your backside

and improvise.

I need something that cuts.

An axe.

He's just grabbed
one of those mower blades.

I have no idea what he's doing.

I don't
have time to shape the handle.

I don't have time to do

any fancy little
blacksmith decorative twist

and show off my
blacksmith skills.

No, no, it is time to
hammer crap together.

When all else fails, use force.

Can he make a
new blade in 20 minutes?

Oh, yeah.

It's not gonna be pretty,

but it might just pass the test.

I have a 6-inch blade...

God!

That I have to stretch 4 inches

to hit the 9-inch requirement,

and I'm pushing
my steel way thinner

than my comfort zone.

I know if it gets too thin, I
risk warpage or cracking.

He's being too aggressive
on a thin piece of steel,

'cause you see it's
bending right out,

and he's got to
constantly fix it.

I measure two or three times.

Once I hit the
9-inch requirement...

I'm going back to the grinder.

That's when I notice a crack.

I don't think there's
any hope for this blade.

Oh. Really?

He doesn't have enough time

to reforge another
blade with steel either.

That's gonna take too long.

We're actually into minutes now.

I don't have enough time
to finish out a second blade.

But I'm not going to give up.

I want just to show
my kids to never stop,

you know, always keep trying.

So I go and grab
a railroad spike,

'cause it's the smallest,
easiest thing to draw out

into a knife-shaped object.

I'm gonna try something
crazy with a railroad spike

as my Hail Mary.

Just maybe it'll get
me out of the jam I'm in.

I'm loving this.

Trenton over here
is a fantastic example

of just adapt and charge on.

That's gonna be one
wicked-ass weapon.

Wil, you and I know
that in the realm of combat,

you take anything
and make it work.

You don't give up.

30 seconds!

10, 9, 8...

7, 6, 5...

4, 3, 2...

1!

Bladesmiths, your time is up.

It don't get
better than that, man.

Your challenge was to complete

a fully functional,
finished, edged weapon

of your own design.

Grant, please hand
over your weapon.

Well, Grant, I will say

I do like the basic
traditional design on it.

Got a little bit
of an arc in it,

but you'll probably fix that.

Point taken, sir.

Chris, you may present
your weapon to the judges.

This design was beautiful.

It's got a beautiful feel to it.

A lot of metal there.

Kind of cool.

I mean, at least
you were smiling

throughout the process.

Very inspiring to watch.

Thank you.

Chad, please present your work.

You had a problem.

You sucked it up,

and you went on,
grabbed a spike,

and went to town on it.

Five more minutes,

I might have been
able to finish that profile.

I mean, you know as well as I do

this looks really rough.

Yeah.

Trenton,

please present your
weapon to the judges.

When we saw
that your blade was broken,

there's nothing worse.

But then you just threw
it all out the window

and said, "I'm just
gonna go for something

pretty damn interesting."

Again, a little trouble
with the first blade.

And as far as after
your grind and quench,

I mean, you've got
serious curve in this edge.

Gentlemen, based
on the parameters

set for this round,

the judges do not
need to deliberate.

Chad, you failed to
hand in a finished blade.

Therefore, you did not
meet the requirements

of the challenge.

Dave will explain.

And I appreciate the effort to
try to get that blade finished,

but you didn't
heat-treat the blade.

It has no edge.

You're not finished
hammering out the basic shape.

It's just too rough
to be accepted

as a completed knife.

I completely understand.

Know that your
hard work to get it done

was certainly appreciated.

Chad...

please surrender your weapon.

Thank you, Chad.

I'm gonna leave this competition

still feeling good about myself.

If one or two things
would have changed,

it would have been a
completely different outcome.

But, unfortunately,
there has to be somebody

that goes out the first round.

It sucks, but it still happens.

Gentlemen, congratulations.

You've all made it to
round two of our competition.

In your second challenge,

you will have to
take your blades

and turn them into fully
operational weapons.

If you need to do
additional work to your blade,

now is the time.

But you must also design
and fabricate a handle

out of the range of
materials provided for you.

When the time is up,

your weapon's
strength and durability

will be tested in an ice chop

and its ability to hold an edge

in a specially designed
sharpness test.

There are three
hours on the clock.

Your time starts...

Now.

I've already got an idea

of how I want the handle to go,

and I just need to find a
good material to do it with.

So I saw this stuff, and it
was really blue and shiny,

and I was just like,
"That's kind of neat."

I was really excited
about trying some stuff

that I don't normally do.

The first
problem that I ran into

was the fact that the
blade had to be supported.

I made two C-shaped pieces

to go around the
back of the blade

in order to support it
and keep it from breaking.

I wanted to see
him knock that handle off

and put a full tang or
something different on there.

And I'd like to see him
straighten out that blade,

'cause he's got a
heck of a twist in there.

He's not changing that handle.

He's reinforcing that handle.

That's what I was afraid of.

I've already made
plans for the $10,000.

About 7,000 of it is
going to go to business,

and I'm leaving 3,000 in
reserve for idiocy and stupidity.

That's my buffer zone.

So 3 grand.

I have a lot of
material left to remove on my knife.

I go to start doing the grind.

I'm worried about
that really thin spot in the blade.

- Right in the middle.
- Right on the edge.

Yup.

And if he's chasing that in,

that blade's just gonna
keep getting smaller

and smaller and smaller.

I only have an
hour and 51 minutes left,

and I have to start
working on this handle now,

so I'm choosing
brass for the guard

and stag horn for the handle.

I'm selecting these materials

because they are
specifically believable

on a 19th-century British-made
Sheffield school bowie.

Okay, we're good to go.

This is all very critical.

Trying to stay in the groove.

I have to make the guard,

and it has to be
soldered in place.

I think I'll be all right,

but I don't have time to
dilly-dally or shilly-shally.

It's a challenge,

and if there is going
to be a mistake,

it's gonna happen now.

Oh, no.

Damn it.

It's a real struggle.

The clock is rolling.

This is do or die,

because the future of
the project depends on it.

My blade is in good shape,

so I have to come up
with some kind of wrap

for the handle.

You know, the problem
with what he's doing is,

he's adding more weight to that.

How heavy is that
thing gonna end up being?

Still not as sharp
as I'd like it to be.

But we're getting there.

I'm back on the grinder,

doing some shaping to my handle

and cleaning up the blade,

bringing it up to
a higher polish

and bringing my edge further.

The epoxy is very gummy still,

and it's still stuck
on the blade.

It's getting stuck
in the grinder belts.

I want to be able to
get it at least cleaned up

to a point where I can
make it look pretty... ish.

20 minutes!

You have 20 minutes remaining!

It's hard to take my
eyes away from Trenton.

I'm trying to figure out
what the heck he's doing.

Well, that's just it.

Where is he going with that?

He's spent a lot of
time working on that handle.

He's got to work on that blade.

I see these three pieces

of handle material,
which are antler,

and there was such a gap

in between where
the axe was attached.

It was just kind
of a hollow hole.

I said, "Man, if we
put these on here,

it's gonna be like Predator."

It's like dreadlocks for an axe.

10, 9, 8...

7...

6, 5, 4...

3, 2, 1.

Your work is now complete.

The competition is stiff.

There are three awesome
blades in the shop,

and the judges have
expressed concerns

about the shape of the blade.

And if I don't meet
what they're looking for,

they could send me home.

I pulled
off some wild crap today.

There's no two ways about it.

But guess what.

That blade, as it sits,

will outchop anything else

that's been made
in there this round.

Bladesmiths, I'm gonna
take each of your blades

and do six vertical
chops on these ice blocks

to see how well
your edge holds up

and how it feels in hand.

Grant, you're up first.

Well, Grant, we got
a little bit of a problem

with the edge retention.

I lost about a third of it.

When the edge
failed against the ice,

I realized, "Okay, something
along the process went wrong."

My edge was
ground thin and fine.

It wasn't made to chop
against a hard medium.

I'm disappointed,

but that's the way the
cow chewed the cabbage.

Chris, are you ready?

Yes, sir.

He hit that ice,

and it just went everywhere.

And I was just like,
"Whoa, that was really cool."

I'm ecstatic on the inside.

Like, there's a little
me inside dancing a jig.

Chris, your blade
held up pretty well.

I still would have
liked to have seen

a bit steeper angle on there,

but it will chop ice.

Thanks.

Trenton.

Ready?

Yes, sir.

Well, Trenton,

that was interesting.

It was like trying to hold
on to an angry goose.

You do have...

With the twist in that
blade and the weight of this,

it's really hard to control.

I mean, it keeps
wanting to glance off

to one side or the other.

And you've got some chipping
in the blade here as well.

But, uh, it did tear up
that ice block pretty nice.

Yes, it did.

Now it's time to see how
your weapons held their edge.

For this sharpness test,

I'm going to do
a horizontal cut.

This will allow me to
keep it even the same way

so I don't depend on gravity

to put some weight into the cut.

Then I'm going to go in front

and I'm going to
do a vertical cut,

a simple slice down to
see how well the edge held.

Grant, your weapon is up.

It still cuts,

not as deeply as I'd want it to,

but it cuts.

Chris, yours is up.

Nice.

It cuts.

Okay, Trenton, yours is up.

It's a ripper.

Gentlemen, you haven't

made this decision
easy for our judges.

We'll now take some
time to deliberate.

Thank you very much.

Oh!

Wasn't that high drama?

Well, judges, let's
start with Grant's blade.

I liked where Grant
was going originally.

I like the whole bowie idea.

But he just started
having so much trouble,

and the heat treat
and choice of steel

obviously got away from him,

'cause it chipped out
so badly on the ice chop.

It did not perform well.

He just wound up with
a blade that was so thin,

and it obviously
failed the test.

All right, let's move
on to Chris's blade.

Of all of our blades,

that blade has got to
be the most functional

as far as just straight
killing efficiency.

It... it'll make some
sandwiches, I'll guarantee.

I was really leery

about Chris picking
the farrier's rasp,

and there's a lot I would have
liked to have seen done with it.

But it chopped the best,
and it did slice the best.

The handle, you can see
that he's burnt the material

both on the front and the back,

and that turns
into a sticky glue,

So there were a
lot of finish things

that he could have
done to this material.

Let's move on
to Trenton's weapon.

I mean, this is...

wildly creative.

Very decorative.

I mean, he showed
a lot of skills.

But because it
was so unbalanced,

it was very hard to control.

Yes, it will chop ice.

But every time I hit it,

it was deflecting one
way, deflecting the other,

and I'm actually
very disappointed.

But you know what?

Does it chop? Yeah.

Does it slice? Yeah.

Can you remove a
door with it? Yeah.

Can I rip the hood of the
car off with it? You bet.

It's not about what
I have in my hand.

It's what I do with it.

- Okay.
- Okay?

I could do more with
this in modern-day combat

instead of this
hunk-a-dunk over here

that I'm gonna
have to wield heavy...

So you're gonna...
Wait, wait, wait.

You're gonna take a weapon
that you already saw fail

into combat.

He had three hours

where he could
have totally altered

the entire design
and structure of this

and made something that
would have performed better.

And instead, he played around
with decorating a wall hanger.

I'm standing here

waiting for the judges to
tell me who's going home,

but I'm half there.

Somebody's gonna go home,

and I don't know who it is.

Bladesmiths,

one of you has
to leave the forge.

You have all produced a weapon

given the time that
was provided for you.

But one of you has
to leave the forge.

Grant, your weapon
didn't make the cut.

We liked the
design you went with.

The problem is,
when we got to testing,

you had that blade crack

and it really didn't cut well.

Kiss of death.

Grant, please
surrender your weapon.

I'm disappointed

that I'm no longer
in the competition.

Thank you, Grant.

The
failure of an edge in a test,

that's the kiss of death.

Chris, Trenton, congratulations.

You've both made
it to the final round

and are one step
closer to $10,000.

So far, you've come to our forge

and you've made a
weapon of your choosing.

Now you're gonna head
back to your home forge,

and you're gonna create
a weapon of our choosing.

And that mystery weapon is...

The chakram.

The chakram
is an Indian throwing weapon

which dates back
hundreds of years.

Warrior Sikhs would
throw it like a Frisbee

or spin it at high
speeds on their fingers

before launching
it into the enemy.

Weapon of the Hindu god Vishnu,

its exotic nature has
resulted in it appearing

in TV and movies.

Oddjob's lethal bowler hat

in the James Bond
movie Goldfinger

was a variation of the weapon,

as was Xena's weapon of
choice in the cult TV series.

The Indian warriors would wear
multiple chakrams into battle,

carrying them around
their arms, their necks,

and even stacked
high on their heads

in specially designed turbans.

Your challenge is to forge
an authentic, working version

of that infamous
throwing weapon.

A
Chakram is a whole different cow.

This is a shape that most
knifemakers never touch.

I've never
done one of these before.

I've never even thought
about doing one of these before.

So we'll see what happens.

In five days, you'll return

and present your
chakrams to our judges.

They subject your
weapons to a series

of aerodynamic
and explosive tests.

Once these tests are
completed, they will decide

who will be declared the
Forged in Firechampion

and walks with a
check for $10,000.

I am very
excited to be going home.

I don't have a
whole lot in my shop,

so that's gonna be a challenge.

I am going home to my shop,

where I am king.

Chris is in trouble.

Bladesmiths, are
you ready to forge ahead?

- Yes, sir.
- Yes, sir.

We will see you in five days.

I am feeling
awesome about this final challenge.

I'm in my home element,
I've got all my tools,

and, man, I'm
just ready to rock.

What I had to do
is go to the junkyard

and find a very
particular piece for a jig,

a particular item to allow you

to very carefully
control the contours

of the item you're working on.

And laying under some oak trees,

I find an old oxygen tank.

And so what we have
now is our chakram form.

Next I actually welded a stock,

just someplace to
give me some leverage.

I'm gonna heat the bar

and start bending
it around my jig.

So now I need to weld
these pieces together.

And there we go. We
have a hoop formed.

My interpretation of
a traditional chakram

will involve doing some things

that I don't really
do in my shop.

I don't have anything in my
shop to accommodate this shape.

I was having a little
difficulty with the shaping.

Most people probably
have a jig set up

so that they could pull
this around a lot easier.

I don't have a jig, so
I'm doing a combination

of rounding it on
the horn of the anvil

and using the bevel
to help round it further.

Today I'm actually
gonna use my angle grinder

to kind of get a clean
finish on the piece,

and then I'm gonna start
work on my braided handles.

This is going to be
my base material

for my braided handle.

You normally use
it for knife handles,

but I'm gonna be using this
for the middle of our chakram.

Pretty close.

I'm done with
the initial shaping.

The only issues that
I think I may run into

is forge-welding the
seam of the chakram,

because it might get burned.

The heat is very inconsistent.

It's very difficult
to control precisely

where you're heating
up in a charcoal forge.

It got burned.

I have two more days left

to get a chakram out of my shop.

It's just not gonna work.

Last night, I had
some steel get burned,

so I'm going to cut out
the sections of the chakram

that were ruined

and weld on a new section.

And being a guy who
works mostly with hand tools,

I want to see if
I can pull it off.

It'll work out.

Or it won't.

Well, it ain't perfect, but...

And there she is.

The last thing
that I'm going to do

is focus on making her pretty.

I'm going to use a
bronze brazing technique.

It's gonna fit it perfectly.

The last day, it is
hit-it-or-quit-it time.

This is gonna be so kick-ass.

Gentlemen, welcome
back to the forge.

You are within
sight of the finish line

and within striking
distance of $10,000

and the Forged in
Fire championship.

There is just the small
matter of the weapons test.

Chris, tell us a little
bit about your weapon.

I tried to keep it thin

so it'd be a bit light
and easy to throw.

I made it so that
it's just gonna cut

whatever you throw it at.

I had a lot of hurdles to jump

to make that particular shape,

so I didn't get
to do any testing.

But, you know, I
think it'll do the job.

Trenton, can you tell us
a little bit about your chakram?

Being an
architectural blacksmith,

I actually had a
much easier time

getting the hoop
than Chris did, I think.

Once I saw Trenton's piece,

I was just like, "Wow,
that's really pretty.

All it has to do is cut
something, and it should win."

This is heavy
for a traditional chakram.

This is not a
flying razor blade;

this is more of a
flying cinder block.

Well, it certainly looked good,

but the only thing that
matters on the battlefield

is how they perform
under pressure.

Doug?

For the strength test,

we're going to
take your chakrams

and see if it was designed
well as a throwing weapon.

We're going to use

a specially designed
mechanical device

that will launch your
weapon into the sugar canes,

because sugar canes
have similar consistency

as human limbs.

If your weapon can cut
cleanly through a sugar cane,

that would indicate
that you have a weapon

that would do mass
destruction in the field of battle.

This device here is calibrated

so that every throw
is gonna be the same

for each of your designs.

Chris, you're first.
Are you ready?

Yes, sir.

In 3, 2, 1.

Engage!

That's cool.

Well, Chris, it cut
two sugar canes.

I see no indentations
on the edges here.

This will cause maximum
damage in the battlefield.

Good job.

Yes, thank you.

Okay, Trenton. You're up next.

In 3, 2, 1. Engage.

I watched mine just
kind of do an overarching arc,

just a bloop.

It hits the sugar cane very low,

just a couple of
inches off the ground.

However, it shears them,
and that means I'm good.

Well, Trenton,

because of the
weight, obviously,

it didn't fly out as high.

But it did cut.

This definitely will
be an ankle cutter.

Trenton's piece,

it still cut... ish.

Now for the kill test.

The chakram is primarily
a throwing weapon.

However, in
close-quarter combat,

sometimes throwing a
weapon is not an option.

Trenton, you're up first.

This is designed to
be a handle, correct?

Yes, sir.

So in order to keep myself safe,

I'm gonna hold the handle,

and I have to protect the
back of my arm with this.

So on the design
alone, that's a concern.

Let's find out what it does.

Well, Trenton, that
performed quite well.

It cut some ribs,

and it disemboweled the dummy.

It will kill.

Good job, Trenton.

Chris, you're up next.

Excellent.

Wow, well, it really
opened him up

in the belly here, so
he's totally disemboweled.

Definitely cut through all
the way and broke a rib.

It'll kill.

The judges are
gonna take some time

to decide which of you
goes home with the big prize.

I am very certain

that I'm going to
take home the prize,

because it's a beautiful
blade, and it functions.

I think that I
have a chance to win,

but I don't think that I'm
the heavy favorite at all.

Through three
rounds of competition,

you gentlemen have produced

some imaginative, creative,
and memorable weapons.

However, only
one will be declared

the Forged in Firechampion

and receive a check for $10,000.

J.

Well, Trenton, I really
liked the craftsmanship,

and the grind was great.

However, I really
could have done without

all the ornamentation
in the center.

It added a lot of weight.

Overall, it took away from the
actual design of the weapon.

As far as craftsmanship,

you've created some really
beautiful thing to look at.

I mean, it's really gorgeous.

Unfortunately, a chakram
has to be a light, fast weapon,

so I have some problems
with the weight of that weapon.

Chris, you're up next.

Chris, your chakram
performed quite well in the test.

It's very close to
what it was made for.

Unfortunately,
it's crudely made.

Functionality-wise,
it performed great.

You've got a fast,
lightweight blade

that holds up and
cuts, and that's key.

But there's some rough
edges on that weapon of yours.

You have both
performed outstandingly.

However, there can only
be one winner for $10,000.

Chris...

you are the Forged
in Fire champion.

Congratulations.

Trenton, unfortunately,

your weapon did
not make the cut.

A chakram has
to be a light, fast weapon,

so I have some problems
with the weight of that weapon.

And once you added
that handle in the middle,

you've left the realm of chakram

and went into the
realm of fantasy.

And it kills me, because
I love looking at it,

but when it came
down to a chakram

that would work in combat,

it had to go to Chris.

Trenton,

please surrender your weapon.

Well, of
course I'm disappointed.

I fought real hard.

Thanks.

I'm sorry.

Man, Chris, he
did a awesome job.

That's the kind of person
you want to lose to.

Chris, congratulations.

You will receive a
check for $10,000.

Congratulations, Chris.

In function and form
and historical accuracy,

your blade performed the best.

I'm a little in shock.

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