Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: osage outlaw on June 30, 2015, 08:53:14 am
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Has anybody been watching this show? I have been enjoying it. The guy that won last night forged a knife out of a farriers rasp. It seems like most guys on there try to get to fancy and end up messing their blades up.
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Yeah I've watched it, i enjoyed it
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Saw the promo but haven't watched it. Looks cool!
Tracy
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Where and when Clint? I haven't seen this one.
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I watched the first episode and was disappointing, very little on the actual craftsmanship and the usual scripted conflict and "crisis" situations. Overall I found the knives produced to be amateurish, one guy was a pretty good craftsman and won that segment.
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History channel on Monday night Pat.
They put the guys on a time limit so they aren't able to do much detail work. Its still cool to see someone forging knives on TV.
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Eric to pick up a piece of steel and not know exactly what it is and forge a knife, is very hard to be successful. And if you have worked an item before like a farriers rasp, it could be a totally different steel than it was last time. Different steels need to be treated differently. If you pick up a steel thinking its 1075 but it's actually 1095 and quench it in water instead of oil it's going to crack. Different steel need to be forged at different temperatures. If your working on what you think is 1095 and you're cold forging and that steel end up being something else yo can crack the steel. When you're heating your steel to be quenched if you don't have the right temperature for that particular you can warp it, crack or even shatter it. I've seen some of these guys knives and they are gorgeous blades, they are anything but amateurs
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I Liked it I wish everything wasn't a competition show though
I'd like to learn something from these shows
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Saw a couple minutes of it. Most of these shows would be so much better if they took the drama out of it
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It's a good show seen the one guy snap the tip of his knife off.
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Bowman, my point is that racing the clock to turn out a quality blade is a waste of time with the end result being predictably substandard. What these guys turned out in the length of time allotted was overall substandard, not their fault, just a bad format for a show. No real craftsman can produce quality with time constraints, I can't in my bow making and don't think any of the rest of you guys could as well.
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I have watched two episodes thus far and enjoyed both of them. Competitions may not necessarily take the quality out of the blade but the time crunch certainly will. I have always enjoyed the work all you forgers do. I enjoy watching it and wish I had the time to do it.