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- Here in the forge...
[eyes ding]

we've seen
the best of the best

win this competition.

[applause]
- oh, my god.

- Tonight,
four of our champions return

to fight for the right
to become super champion.

- To be a super champ,

you've gotta walk through hell.

- Jon nagel sailed to victory
with his naval cutlass.

- Competing to be
a super champ--

a little bit of nervousness,

but being in the military,
we are trained to go up

against the best enemy forces
out there,

so to be the best,
you have to beat the best.

♪ ♪

- mike rowley smoked
the competition

with a pair of pipe tomahawks.

- I am more nervous for this
competition than the first one,

just because I have such
high expectations for myself,

but... [growls]
bring it on!

♪ ♪

- spicy mike kerley

beat the heat
with a qinglong ji.

- My first experience here
on "forged in fire"

was actually really,
really awesome.

There's some very iconic
banana action that went on.

You guys need hot sauce on it.

- No hot sauce.

- I'm here
for the super championship

because it's another chance
to try to get the judges

to eat my hot sauce,
plus money.

- And collin sage came back
from failure to win

with a kabyle flyssa.

- The first time
I was on the show,

I broke a knife.

It was embarrassing.

[bleep].

Yes, I went on and won,

but that broken knife
haunts my dreams.

- What these champions
don't know

is that defeating
their competition...

- You gotta have
a lot of balls

to come over here
as a champion.

- Is only the beginning.

One of you
will have to compete against

historic weapons recreation
specialist david baker.

On "forged in fire."

♪ ♪

champions,
welcome back to the forge.

- It's a super championship.

I'm already so intimidated,
and then you look out,

and wil willis has got you
locked with those tiger eyes.

It's very intimidating.

- Today, you're gonna lay it
all on the line again

as we engage you

in three rounds of super
championship competition

designed to make one
of you quit, cry, or collapse,

all in front of our panel
of expert judges.

Let's meet them now.

Up first,
abs master smith j. Neilson.

Next, two-time
"forged in fire" champion

turned judge ben abbott.

And last, doug.

- [laughs]

- all right.

Gentlemen,
there are a lot of qualities

that make up
a "forged in fire" champion,

but more than anything,
it probably takes...

♪ ♪

- [laughs]
- oh, son of a bitch.

- Gentlemen, in your first
round of competition,

you're gonna have to take these
big round balls of 52100 steel

and collapse them all down

into those rectangular
canoe canisters.

You have to fit
every single steel ball

that is in that dish
into that canister

to make that signature blade
in your signature style

between 12
and 14 inches in length.

- I've never had good luck
forging steel balls,

and I never actually
have done canoe canister.

I've done the other type,
and so, [bleep].

- You'll have three hours to
design and forge your blades.

In the second round,
if you make it there,

you'll have an opportunity to
attach handles to those blades,

and we're gonna test them like

we've never tested
blades before.

Hell, I'm not even gonna tell
you what the tests are today.

Good luck, gentlemen.

Your three hours starts...

Now.

♪ ♪

- oh, this is gonna be fun.

- You've gotta have
a lot of balls

to come over here
as a champion.

- Oh, they're so heavy!
- [laughs]

- so the challenge
is to get all of these--

I think there's 10,000 or so--

ball bearings
into this canister,

but two of those ball bearings

are way too big
to fit in the can.

- We specifically gave them
two large ball bearings

that are not going to fit
in the canister

unless they manipulate it
somehow.

- You can't just grind them.
They're really hard steel.

You gotta squish them out
and try to fit them in

like some giant puzzle piece.

Most mere mortals
can't just forge steel.

I can.

But it is "forged in fire,"

so I decided to go ahead
and use the fire.

♪ ♪

- to be a super champ,
what these guys

don't even realize is,
you gotta beat a judge,

and there's only one person
here that's not at the table.

They're gonna have to beat
dave at the finale.

- You know, this really is,
like, two challenges in one.

Not only do you
have to break down

the two large ball bearings;

then you have to combine them
into the canister

and make another piece
of steel with that,

so it all takes a lot of time

and a lot of energy
to get it right.

- Looking over the canister.

I'm starting to fill it up
with the pieces,

maybe put a little powder
in the base.

I'm trying to get a feel for
how much space I actually have.

- If you remember
collin's competition,

collin's blade broke,

and the only reason
that he moved forward:

Because his competitor's blade
broke in less strikes.

- That's right.

- Now, he's got a lot to prove
compared to these other smiths.

- I break another knife,
you're gonna see me cry,

probably.

Weeping will be involved.

I might just lay down.

[laughs]

- spicy mike is the only one
who put some wite-out

into his canoe canister,

and we know that that can
either be exceptionally done

or just a disaster
all the way around.

- Yeah.

- And typically guys have
a problem peeling the can.

- My plan with the larger
ball bearings

is to draw them out
into long, narrow rectangles

that will fit inside the can.

So far, it's going slow.

They're really big
ball bearings,

take a long time to heat up.

They take a long time
to squish down.

Slow but smooth.

That's how you
win the race, right?

♪ ♪

- I've fit everything else
in the can,

and now I'm drawing
these big ball bearings

out into rectangles
and then just set them in.

- Big mike is a little bit
ahead of everybody else.

- Ah!

You rowdy devil!

- He's got everything arranged
inside of his can,

and now he's welding it up.

- It's fitting that mike
is ahead of the game,

because his particular
challenge in his episode

was canister damascus.

- One thing that I've learned
about canister

is don't get in a hurry.

Take small bites,
press little bits at a time,

so I can maintain
some semblance of control

over this whole process.

Ah.

- If you look over here
at jonathan,

he's very far behind
the other smiths.

- I know I'm spending
a lot of time

getting the different pieces
of my canister ready,

but this is a crucial step
in this process.

Any inclusion,
any bit of grime,

anything that's not cleaned
well could lead to a failure.

Proper planning prevents
piss-poor performance.

- Jonathan took a large piece
that he drew out,

cut it into small sections,

and then took each of
those small sections

and tried to clean
the scale off.

If you're just taking the whole
thing, clean the scale,

and then cut it,
it's about a quarter

of the amount of time
it would have taken.

- Champions,
one hour has elapsed!

You have two hours remaining
to finish your work.

- So I get my can
all packed up.

I get every single one of those
little ball bearings in there,

and I'm into the fire.

I've accomplished
this one task,

and it's like, "yay!"

but then it's like, "oh!

I still have to make a knife!"

there's a lot of pressure
riding on this first round,

so I'm going forge, heat up,
press, press, forge,

press, forge, press.

It seems to be working.

Is everything going right
right now?

Is this a dream?

Am I in a dream?

[gauzy harp music]

look, mom!
I made the wall!

No.

This is a super championship.

Whoo!

♪ ♪

- so spicy mike heading
over to the press.

He looks a little bit cool
on one side of the billet.

- Yeah, 'cause it's been

sitting on the bottom
of the forge...

- Yep.

- And that doesn't help
with your forge welding.

- Welding this billet up
is very similar

to drawing out
the ball bearings.

There's a lot of thermal mass,

and the press sucks
a lot of the heat up,

so you've gotta keep that
at forge welding temperature.

Making the knife
is gonna be the easy part.

It's getting the billet

to make the knife
out of that's kind of a pain.

♪ ♪

- well, big mike, man,

he's really way out ahead
of the pack at this point.

- Oh, yeah.

- I am ecstatic
over this billet.

It is solid.
It is one piece of steel.

And that is magic to me.

I'm a magician.
[chuckles]

next, I'm going
to the power hammer.

I'm gonna try to get
a little bit more length

out of it.

Big blue, we're buds, man.

We're bros.

Oh!

- Nice! Get some!
- Whoo!

- Big blue!

- I would marry big blue
if they would let me.

Sorry, honey,
I wouldn't do that.

I-I love you.

♪ ♪

- my steel feels really good
right now,

but now I want to see,

do I have a bunch of inclusions
that I can see?

What does it look like?

So I go over to the chop saw.

If I cut this end off

and it's not
a solid piece of steel,

I do not have time
to restart this challenge.

[bleep]damn, it worked!

[laughs]

- jonathan knows that proper
prior planning

prevents poor performance.

Maybe all of this planning
and preparation

is gonna help propel him
into pole position.

♪ ♪

if you didn't know
what tests lie ahead,

what shape would you prefer
to go with?

- One of our standard three:
Camp, bowie, seax.

You know, any of those
would do well.

- All right.

- Last time I came in,

I kept it simple
with the knife shape.

Now I want to push myself,

so I'm gonna make
a drop point kukri.

If you don't know,
kukris have a forward bend.

My name is collin sage,

and this is how you put
a bend in a kukri.

[bleep] mother[bleep], [bleep]!

- That's not a technique
that's used in my shop.

- [bleep], [bleep], [bleep].
That's it.

- You have just 60 minutes

remaining
to finish your blades!

♪ ♪

- I finally get the outside
of this thing off,

but the chromium
in the ball bearings forms

its own type of strange layer
if it's exposed to oxygen,

and that can make delams,
and looking at my welds,

that looks like pretty much
exactly what happened.

- It looks like mike's
pulling out flux.

That's not a good sign.
- Not good.

- If spicy mike's
pulling out flux,

that means there's cracks
or issues in his billet

that he cut out.

- I dump a whole bunch
of flux on it.

- That's a lot of flux.

- That's a lot of flux.
That's not good at all.

He put it on the whole length
of that billet,

so there's probably flaws

going all the way down
the length of that.

- I can't turn in a blade
with non-welded spots.

It does not look good.

- Mike's screwed.

♪ ♪

- you're now our champion.

You're our selection
to compete against

♪ ♪

- I'm drawing it out.

It's starting
to not look so good.

There's some delams in there.

- That's a lot of flux.
- That's a lot of flux.

That's not good at all.

He put it on the whole length
of that billet,

so there's probably flaws

going all the way down
the length of that.

- I can't turn in a blade
with non-welded spots,

but I still have
a lot of work to do,

so I just cross my fingers
and hope for the best.

♪ ♪

- the pressure is on
in this competition.

To be a super champ,
you've gotta walk through hell.

An hour ago, I wasn't sure
I was gonna finish,

but just going crazy
on big blue,

I have made up some good time.

Now it's time to get
to that heat treat.

- There we go.

- Jonathan, the first smith
to quench.

- So I set up
a straightening jig

so that as soon as
I come out of the quench,

I can bring it right over
and just clamp it in there

and just let it sit
so I don't have any wiggles.

- Jonathan has somehow

come from behind
in this competition...

- Yep.

- And overtaken
mike's early success.

♪ ♪

- I don't want to jinx myself,

but things are going
pretty well,

and I'm good to go.

Straight into the oil it goes.

- Big mike quenching.

♪ ♪

- whoo, doggy!
That's a big'un!

It looks like a banana.

I need to go to the grinder.

I hope that I can grind
most of this out.

- 30 minutes remaining!

♪ ♪

- so my strong suit's
the grinder.

Once I got the billet made out,
it really doesn't take me

very long to get it into
at least a knife shape.

- The thing that bothers me is

spicy mike
didn't really forge a blade.

- Right.

- He just drew out the bar,
and now he's grinding it.

So to me,
this is stock removal.

- To me, this is the most
efficient way to get something

relatively blade-shaped
in the shortest amount of time.

- You know, collin kept it

pretty simple
on the tang there.

It's just a big rectangle
right now.

- Yeah, there's not much to it.
- Yeah.

♪ ♪

- yeah, there's a slight,
slight warp,

but I'm pretty sure
I can grind that out.

- It sounds like a hard
blade to me.

- Sounds like
a hard blade, yeah.

- [yells]

- five! Four!

Three! Two! One!

Bladesmiths, shut down
your machines, drop your tools.

This first round of super
champion competition is over.

♪ ♪

- nicely done, man.
Nicely done.

- My first time here
at "forged in fire,"

I thought that was, like, the
hardest thing I had ever done.

After going through round
one today, I stand corrected.

♪ ♪

- all right, bladesmiths.

The first round
of this super champion

competition has concluded,

and the judges have already
evaluated your blades,

and there will be
no critiques today.

The judges feel
that a super champion

doesn't need to be told
how to fix his blade.

♪ ♪

spicy mike, unfortunately,
the judges have determined

that your blade
did not make the cut,

and j. Neilson's
gonna tell you why.

- Spicy mike, you fought hard
and you fought long.

We're very proud
of what you did.

But you got a big warp
in your blade,

you got delaminations,

and it was mostly ground
instead of forged to shape,

and that's not what we're
looking for in a super champ.

- Spicy mike, we'd like to
invite you to shake our hands,

shake your competitors' hands,

and then please exit the forge.

- Everything the judges said
was completely accurate,

and I completely agree.

It just was not the work
that would be able

to compete
with the other competitors.

I definitely didn't prove
what I wanted to coming back

for a super champions
challenge, but I still had fun.

♪ ♪

- all right, gentlemen.

Well, now that those blades
have been tempered,

it's time to turn them
into fully functional weapons

by attaching handles to them
here in the second round.

You'll have only two hours

in which to complete
all of your work.

Now, believe me:

After those handles
have been attached,

your weapon's strength
and durability

will be tested to the utmost.

Additionally, you must
include a mosaic pin,

and I cannot tell you how much

fit and finish really matters
in this round.

Good luck.
Your two hours starts now.

♪ ♪

- we didn't critique
their work,

so if they're gonna
be super champ,

they need to fix
their own mistakes.

- So they have to be
a knife-maker, you're saying.

- Yeah.

- I know that I need to fix
that banana shape,

but I decide in time management
to go ahead

and get my pin set up.

- I want to mess
with glue first,

'cause glue needs time to dry,
so mosaic pin.

- A mosaic pin is a hollow pin

that has decorative items
inside--

brass, bronze,
copper, whatever.

- Collin's mixing
something up over here,

but I don't see
what he glued anything to.

- They're mosaic pins.
- Oh!

- They're making
their mosaic pins,

getting those set up first.

- They all made their pins.
I forgot about that.

- Thankfully, they didn't.

- I've never done
a mosaic pin,

but I've seen a few videos
on how it's done,

so I'm just kind of
winging it here.

- Jonathan's got one of
the heavier blades

out there in the forge.

What do you think, ben?
What has he gotta do?

- He needs to grind it down
and make it more usable.

He's got a lot of work to do
on his handle as well.

It's got some shaping, but it's
still a very unrefined handle.

- I know my blade
has a few issues

that I'd like to work out.

The goal here
is to just remove

that mass that I don't need.

- I think jonathan, even though
he's got a lot of work to do,

he's set up
in the best position right now

to be our super champ
and go against

dave in the finale.

♪ ♪

big mike has got
a lot of material.

He's got a big warp.

So there's things
he can correct,

but he's gotta focus on those

and get all
the other challenges done too.

- I know that I have to get
this warp out.

I'm gonna heat it up,
put a pin here and a pin here,

and try to push that warp over.

If I can get even just
a little bit of that warp out,

I can grind the rest.

♪ ♪

- I have no idea
what the tests are gonna be,

so I'm taking
some extra precautions here.

I'm gonna glue back the spine,

and this is gonna help
kind of ensure

that there's a little bit more
shock absorption in the back.

- He's softening the spine,
gonna make sure

that if anything
were to happen,

it doesn't snap in two.

- That's smart.

- I don't want that thing

to blow apart
like the last time.

- Collin's got kind of

a unfinished tang situation
going on,

but that should
be easily fixed.

- You know, one of the things

that these smiths
have to realize,

that in order to beat
a judge like dave,

fit, finish, balance.

- I want to shape this tang up
a little bit more.

I want to get this thing
as close to shape right now

as I can, and then
we'll slap those scales on.

- 60 minutes has elapsed!

You have just one hour
remaining

to finish your blades!

- The next hour is going to be
not so smooth,

not so steady,
maybe a little more panic.

- Jonathan's blade looks like
it's been

on a little bit of a diet.

It's not quite as thick
as it was before.

- If I grind too long,

I'm just gonna run out of time,
so the next step is my handle.

I decide to grab
some kirinite.

The kirinite has
a really cool look to it.

Knowing that fit and finish
is of such importance here,

I really need
to make sure things

look and feel the best
that they can.

♪ ♪

- my steel cannot grind out
enough of the warp,

and I look up at the time,

and the time's
just running out.

- Mike's been at the grinder
for the last 90 minutes.

- You gotta be kidding me.

What do we always say?
"time management."

- I get it as straight
as I can possibly get it.

I have to live with what I've
done and get these scales off.

- Some people always wait
to fix the blade,

so you may have a champion
blade but a lackluster handle.

Overall, it's not
a champion's blade.

- The first time
I was on the show,

handles were
almost an afterthought,

but not this time.

I did a bright liner

and then put on
a really thick, dark material,

and that'll be a good contrast.

I'm trying to take off
all the marks that I had.

Is the handle good?

Is it sharp?
Is everything coming together?

Is it, is it, is it, is it?

Not enough time.

- Five! Four! Three!

Two! One!

Bladesmiths,
shut down your machines!

Drop your tools!
This second round is over!

- Dag nabbit, wil,
I need another hour, man.

I'm proud that I got it done
in that short amount of time,

but I'm not proud
about the fit and finish.

♪ ♪

- all right, gentlemen,
I told you that fit

and finish is gonna matter
more than any other competition

that you've ever
been in before.

Only two of you
are moving forward

in this
super champions competition.

- All three of us put in
five hours

of work on this--
blood, sweat, and tears--

and now one of our blades
isn't even gonna be tested.

- The bladesmith leaving
the forge is...

♪ ♪

in order to become
our super champion,

you're gonna have to
defeat dave

as you forge your way
through this historic weapon.

♪ ♪

- only two of you
are moving forward

in this super champions
competition.

♪ ♪

big mike, your blade
didn't make the cut.

- Big mike, it was a pleasure
to watch you work,

and I loved your energy.

- Thank you.

- But time management
is one of the big things.

You had to rush that handle
at the end,

which left it very rough
with a lot of gapping.

That's why
we're letting you go.

♪ ♪

- I'm a little disappointed
in myself that I didn't

keep track of time
like I should.

The warp just took way
too much time,

threw me off for two hours.

But this is
a super champions episode,

and they raised the bar,

and it takes a little bit
more to be a super champion.

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

- [sighs]

are you [bleep] me right now?

- I see it now.

♪ ♪

- bladesmiths, we promised you
a test like nothing

you've ever seen before--

mainly because
we haven't done it before.

This is our version
of the classic flex test.

You notice your blades

are clamped
into this monster already,

and it's holding hundreds
of pounds of weight,

which I am going to lower
onto your blades

until one of them breaks.

The blade that lasts
the longest before breaking

will be moving on.

- [chuckles]

okay.

- Why not.
[laughs]

- let's see who survives.

♪ ♪

- when I look at this machine,

it looks like something
out of the middle ages

they used to torture
witches or something.

- "come on the show,"
they said.

"come compete for
super championship," they said.

J.'s gonna [bleep]
destroy our knives.

♪ ♪

- ooh, [bleep].

♪ ♪

[creaking]

♪ ♪

they both holding all of it?
- Yeah.

The blades
are holding the weight.

- You wanted
a couple super champions?

Well, here we are.

- Oh, yeah, baby!

[both laugh]

- you guys really think
we're done now?

- No.
- No.

Clearly, we picked
the right two knives,

but now what we're gonna do

is we're gonna reset this
and add more weight.

- There's a lot of tension
in the room, but for me,

it's like a release of tension.

I was afraid
of my knife breaking,

and now it's gonna break
on purpose.

♪ ♪

[creaking]

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

- gentlemen, both of
your blades were gonna fail

no matter what.

It was just a matter of whose
failed first, and I gotta say,

we're impressed with both
of your blades' performances.

Jonathan, unfortunately,
your blade snapped first,

and for that reason,
we have to ask you

to please shake our hands,
shake your competitor's hand,

and then please
leave the forge.

- I'm still
just kind of shocked.

Happy with how
my blade performed.

It was very strong--just
a little bit too brittle there,

probably on the spine.

My hat's off to collin.
He made a great blade.

So I hope he does well with
whatever the next challenge is.

To you former champions that
are thinking of coming back,

just prepare yourselves.

You really gotta push
the limits

of what you've done before

so that you're ready
for whatever they throw at you.

♪ ♪

- collin, congratulations.

Over the last two rounds,
you've maintained drive,

determination,
and the heart of a champion.

However,
you're now our champion.

- Collin, congratulations.

In this final round
of competition,

you'll be competing
against a man

who has 30 years
in his industry.

He's provided weapons
for "deadliest warrior,"

"ncis,"
"stan lee's superhumans."

he's a swordsmith.

He's historic weapons

re-creation specialist
david baker.

♪ ♪

- hi, dave.
- Hey, collin.

How you doing, man?

- Good.

If somebody had asked me,

"you want to compete
against dave baker?"

I'd have been like,
"no! That's a nightmare.

That's crazy."

oh, [bleep].

- Look here, collin.

In order to become
our super champion,

you're gonna have to
defeat dave

as you forge your way
through this historic weapon.

♪ ♪

the russian cossack
world war ii shashka saber.

- Oh, yeah.

♪ ♪

- this shashka saber
is an antique

from j. Neilson's
personal collection.

Your final challenge
is to forge your own versions

of the shashka saber,

and your blades, gentlemen,

must fall within
the following parameters:

You must have a fuller
on both sides of the blade

that runs to within
7 inches of the tip.

You must also have
a brass spacer,

wood handle,
bird's head pommel,

leather tassel loop,
and leather tassel.

You'll have three days
to work on your blades.

It's 30 hours, in this forge.

Collin, dave's created
every single weapon

that's sat here for round
three, so keep that in mind.

- Dave, got a lot of respect
for you, but watch out,

'cause I'm representing
the little guys.

That's me,
and that's all of them

sitting on these shoulders,
and I'm coming for you.

Good luck.
We'll see you in 30 hours.

♪ ♪

- so which side do you want?

- You know, I've won 1 1/2
times on this forge over here,

so I'm gonna take this.

- You got it.
- Lucky number four.

♪ ♪

- so for the next 30 hours,
I'll be building

the world war ii
russian cossack shashka saber.

I've never built this weapon.
I've always wanted to.

Normally, these bladesmiths
duke it out

for the chance to go back
to their own shop.

This time, collin's gotta
come to my shop.

I hope there's a bit
of an intimidation factor.

[laughs]

♪ ♪

- not at home.

And I have to make
my shashka saber

better than dave baker's,
so no pressure.

♪ ♪

obviously,
it has to be damascus.

What I'm planning on doing
is making 45 layers,

and then I'm gonna take those,
once that's all drawn out,

turn it into ladder damascus,
take that damascus,

and stick it on the side
of some 80crv2

and make a damascus san mai.

This is a super championship,
so I have to take risks.

I can do a simpler
blade construction,

but is that to this level?

♪ ♪

- I've managed to do a san mai
with 300 layers of damascus

on either side of a 1095 core.

There are risks involved
in making damascus--

winding up with delaminations

or cold shuts
that you don't find

until the time that you've
hammered out an entire blade.

I made a false tang,

and I'm using that
to set everything up.

[gasps]

oh, god!

When the blade's done,

I'll make sure that I copy
this tang onto that blade,

and everything
should just fit right out.

♪ ♪

- what the hell?
- What?

- I said, "what the hell?"

you already have
a quenched blade.

♪ ♪

I don't need to rush,
but at the same time,

dave is so far ahead,
I want to try to catch up.

♪ ♪

last-second quench of day one.

I can't tell you how I feel

until tomorrow
when I get to touch it.

♪ ♪

so this is the moment
of truth, right?

I quenched last night,
put it right in this vise.

I just hope it's okay.

- After ten hours,
I've got 2/3 of my blade done,

and I still have 2/3
of my time left.

- I don't see any cracks.

- Today, I want to clean up
the shoulders of the blade

so I get
a super nice, tight fit.

♪ ♪

while I'm polishing the blade,
I see a delamination.

♪ ♪

I can see where it starts,
and I can see where it ends.

It's not long.
It's very small.

So I flex the blade
a little bit

to see how deep it goes.

[bleep].

- While I'm polishing
the blade,

I see a delamination.

So I flex the blade
a little bit

to see how deep it goes.

Pop.
I blow that thing apart.

♪ ♪

literally, I experience what
smiths go through in this shop

when things don't go right,

and it's a humbling experience.

But I come up with an idea.

I will take my broken blade,
chop it up,

throw it in a canister,
and draw that out.

My second blade

will have elements
of the first blade throughout.

I'm just hoping that crack
doesn't come along with it.

The clock on the wall--
it gets in your head.

My goal is to not rush.

Just take a deep breath
and make it all come together

as nice
as I can make it happen.

♪ ♪

- I have to make sure
that the handle is perfect.

I don't stand a chance
against dave unless this sword

is just smooth like butter
in the hand.

I want to get these pieces
rough shaped out

so I can fit them
onto the handle

and know that it's all gonna
work and come together.

I have absolute confidence

that dave baker
can still catch back up

and pass me
by the end of today.

♪ ♪

[humming]

♪ ♪

doug.

- Get the hell out of my chair.
Let's get to work.

- Oh, jeez.
- [laughs]

- so I only have
ten more hours

to try to make a blade
worthy of super championship.

- We're not down to the wire
yet, but we're close.

I thought I'd be
further along,

but the hiccup with the
first blade set me back.

- The super champion's
up here.

I'm still down here.

Is ten hours enough
to make the difference?

Hopefully so.

One of the main focuses today

is to get this blade
light and fast.

If it's a big weight
on the end of a handle,

that's not gonna cut it,
so I have to get

as much weight and meat
out of it as I can.

- I got to the quench
last night,

so I'm a happy camper,

because now I can play
catch-up this afternoon.

I'm planning on doing
a really deep etch.

Since I made this damascus
from other pieces of damascus,

this pattern could be stunning.

It could be really unique.

I don't know.

There's a lot going on.
[laughs]

- looks really cool.

♪ ♪

working with dave baker,
it's really awesome,

and no matter what happens,
he has all of my respect.

♪ ♪

whoop!

It's so much fun
when you're done.

- There you go, man.

♪ ♪

- collin, dave,
your 30 hours are up,

and it's time for the judges
to test your blades,

but first, collin, you're
a candidate for super champion.

Tell us about your sword.
How'd you make it?

- I took two pieces
of 45-layer ladder damascus,

san mai'd that
onto a piece of 80crv2.

The handle is antique brass
with a walnut handle

that I dyed blood red.

- Dave, tell us about your
sword.Ent

- it started out
as a 300-layer

each side san mai
around a 1095 core,

but I found a crack
in that blade,

so I busted that blade up,

created a canister damascus
of that 300-layer sword blade.

The handle is brass with
a stabilized walnut center.

- All right, all right.

So your blades will be
put through a battery of tests

by all three of our judges.

Up first is doug.

♪ ♪

- gentlemen,
welcome to the keal test.

I will take your weapon
and deliver some killing blows

on this pig carcass.

Collin, you're up first.
You ready for this?

- Yes, sir.
- Let's do this.

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

good job.

- Collin, well done, sir.

- Thank you.

- The balance
is very wieldable.

Every cut with your edge
cuts deep.

Overall, sir,
your shashka will keal.

- Thank you.
- All right, brother.

Are you ready?

- Oh, do that voodoo
that you do so well, doug.

- Let's do this.

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

the handle is spot-on.

It's perfect fit for my hand.

It's perfect fit for my hand.

The balance of this
is very wieldable.

Your weapon, sir,
for this test, will keal.

- Thank you, doug.
[chuckles]

♪ ♪

- all right, bladesmiths.

This is our combination
durability-sharpness test.

I'm gonna start
by bashing into these pots.

Then I'm gonna take
what's left of your sword

and try to cut
into this sheepskin.

Collin, you're up first.
You ready?

- Let's do it.

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

- well, collin,
there's just about

no edge damage on this thing.

Your handle, it's a little long
for my taste.

That being said, though,
it is comfortable,

and all in all, your blade
is still nice and straight.

Really well done.

- Thank you.
- Dave, you're up.

Are you ready?

I thought you might be.

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

well, dave, first off,
it's all in one piece.

- Ah.

[laughter]

- your handle
is perfectly dimensioned.

It held up really well.
Nice job.

- Thank you, sir.

♪ ♪

- dave, collin,

welcome to your final test.

I'm gonna take your swords

and beat them
into this bamboo and post.

Then I'm gonna strike
at these attacking dummies

in leather vests.

Super champion time.
Collin, you ready?

- Yes, sir.
- All right, let's do it.

♪ ♪

- this final test is really
the destruction test.

I just don't want it to break.

I just don't want
my sword to break.

♪ ♪

- this final test is really
the destruction test.

I just don't want it to break.

I just don't want
my sword to break.

♪ ♪

- [grunting]

♪ ♪

[grunts]

♪ ♪

- [sighs]

- nice job, collin.

I like this sword.

You still got an edge.

And that's some pretty abusive
testing there.

- Yeah. Yeah.

- Everything's still tight.
Everything's still sharp.

Nice job.

- Thank you.

- Yeah, yeah.
Hulk smash. Go.

[laughter]

- all right, dave.
Have it your way.

♪ ♪

[grunting]

♪ ♪

[grunts]

♪ ♪

- a little problem, dave.
- Yeah. Oh, yeah.

- That sucker's got
quite a bend to it.

Steel looks great, though.

For the most part,
still has an edge,

but definitely took
some deflection the other way.

- Mm-hmm.

♪ ♪

- collin, dave,
the judges have completed

their deliberation.

Collin,

you are our

"forged in fire"
super champion.

Good job, brother.

- Well done, man.

♪ ♪

- dave, you had a great handle.

Your blade took
a couple of warps.

I'm gonna have to ask you
to please surrender your blade

and leave the forge.

- I am happy to.

Collin's
a wonderful competitor.

I am so impressed
with his work.

Biggest piece of advice
I can give anybody

doing one of these challenges

is don't worry
about that clock.

It's just a distraction.

Just do your work,
play your game,

and build the weapon
you know you can build.

♪ ♪

- collin,

damn it,
look at what you've done.

You are our
"forged in fire"

super champion,
defeating historic weapons

re-creation specialist
david baker.

♪ ♪

- as a super champ,
I just want to say:

Don't be afraid.

Courage isn't
the absence of fear;

it's doing something
in spite of fear.

I'm a super champ,

and I wouldn't be here
without my friends,

without my family,
without god.

♪ ♪

anyway.

♪ super champ! ♪

♪ got a super champ! ♪

♪ ♪

♪ gonna feel, uh! ♪

feels good.