@@hongeeng4756 It's not real Damascus, but I guess you can call it Trade Damascus or something. It's pattern welded, which allows for impurities to enter the forging process and prevent the layers from welding. It's not going to be hard like diamond, or flexible either. Not necessarily, (It's never going to be hard like diamond). It depends on the metals you use in forging, and the process and technique used. You can have a pattern welded sword that is soft as butter.
I think I’ve only seen one episode that wound up coming down to aesthetics. If kiddo had just made a functional weapon, he might have even won. Doug commented that the winning sword was heavy and that’s usually a death sentence unless the lighter sword breaks or cannot be tested.
@@nikolasvitlica267 Damascus looks pretty but it's hardly practical as a working weapon. The kind of stresses they put the blades under is enough to cause damascus, no matter how well it's made and welded together to de laminate. I have a couple of damascus knives but I never use them. I rather stick with a monosteel blade that I know how it's going to perform and what it's failure points are.
Travis gives me Tim Curry vibes, in a good way. He looks mad, but he is actually the most sane. Unlike Morgan, he understood the importance of risk vs reward in mono-steel. He used a ladder to heat treat and quench so he had more leverage. He found the breaking point of the tip so he could be comfortable about the durability.
Kid is still super talented. I imagine lots of people vocalize their doubts in his abilities, which is probably why he said that. Everyone's got a bad day in every skill
@Jan Siegle The sword was clearly inferior but...yeah kinda. That wasn't a viking sword, it looked more like an arming sword. It didn't have really any characteristics of the viking sword besides being a sharp double edged swordd
@Jan Siegle So if a smith makes an amazing and beautiful blade that performs just as well as the other contestants plain yet accurate sword, yet the beautiful sword has virtually no characteristics of the sword that they were supposed to make, effectively making it a different type of sword. The beautiful sword should still win because it's more shiny? I think that being able to make a functional and reliable sword without changing out half the design should win over a flashier yet different sword. They weren't challenged with making the flashy inaccurate sword and the deviations from the challenge sword should be considered missing parameters. Like they've done before but oddly not here.
Strange to see Travis as a competitor rather than a judge. But it's easy to see why they picked him for KoD. Good lord the visible gulf between the quality of those two blades at 6:07 is immense.
Jesus I can't believe Morgan thought the judges would not visually inspect the sword before testing! He had the worst forged sword that I have seen yet on the show, a blind man could see those Grand Canyon sized cracks along the Cutting Edge, and other dudes sword is absolutely gorgeous! And Sharp As a Razor the way it cut into that ballistics dummy stomach...
@@yharisvondagar8176 he tried his best, certainly, but he did go out of his way to try and use damascus steel, which cost time and effort he could have put into ensuring the quality of the sword
morgan "if someone were to think that i can't win because im so young.. just watch me" and yet he came with a metal stick full of problems they have to not to test it
@@greekveteran2715 Wonder why? I know Damascus blades are the pretties looking blade. But when the Forged in Fire tested them, they always suffer the catastrophic failure. "It will not cut." - Marcaida
@@greekveteran2715 Traditional Damascus steel is actually insanely strong, particularly compared to it's historical contemporaries. The problem is that the process for doing it is lost and as a result all we have is an aproximation of what it looks like.
@@guitarhausdoesntknowwhatac3285 It's nothing like the original damascus that it's recipe is lost. You can't "glue" 2 steels and make a tougher blade. I say that because most people I know, have in mind, that damascus blades, are tougher. You get both atributes from both steels, which means, that if (and it always is) 1 of 2 steels, is less tougher, then the blade will be less tougher on the parts where that still is. Same goes for it's strength abilities.The real problem with Damascus is, that no matter how good the welding is done, it will always be a chance,the 2 steels come apart! They can't find out, what was that old recipe you mentioned for many reasons! When it comes to knives or steel blades, the more simple, the better, the simplest the BEST! Until they find that old recipe, and damascus gets into the compatition!!
Honestly I knew Travis would win the second he lit his cigar with his glowing blade. Good on Morgan though, he made it further than most contestants on the show, I hope he learned from his mistakes and is better from it
@@commandergeokam2868 damascus was primarily used to make weak metals into a stronger version of itself, it was invented for weapons, just not invented for fools to use while in a rush, either way yeah, damascus = lose on this show
the problem with the damascus blade is that on the 1st quench he dipped it too quick.... so the steel never had the chance to harden. thus delamination
Yeah this guy was clearly not experienced enough, I'm a layman when it comes to blacksmithing, but you can clearly see the delamination in the middle of his damascus at 04:41. Also, he seemed to rush through the process, could also be editing, but he really didn't seem to take the time needed to finish the blade. He definitely shouldn't have twisted it and spend a lot more time folding it, didn't see him use flux during the heating either, again could be editing. Hopefully he got some experience from it and is a much better smith because of this lesson.
I'm honestly confused why Morgan didn't see the delamination/cracking occur right after his initial quench. You can see it quite obviously in the center of the blade at 4:37
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How can a dasmascus sword has delamination? It shd be hard as diamond flexible like water
Make urumi sword episode
@@hongeeng4756 It's not real Damascus, but I guess you can call it Trade Damascus or something. It's pattern welded, which allows for impurities to enter the forging process and prevent the layers from welding.
It's not going to be hard like diamond, or flexible either. Not necessarily, (It's never going to be hard like diamond). It depends on the metals you use in forging, and the process and technique used. You can have a pattern welded sword that is soft as butter.
OH RIGHT. You are 20 years old and you proved it.
@@yazanelayan4193 if Vikings take such useless swords, they wont be famous swords maker right🤣
Travis - 21 years experience of bladesmith
Morgan - 20 years experience of existence
Lol
😂 😆 😜
not only that but Travis's sword looked more like a broadsword and not a viking sword. At least thats what I think.
Expected more from "8 years of experience".
Achha ji 😂😂
The way he lights his cigar with his sword is the ultimate Flex.
That sir was a blunt
He thought that was SO cool 😂
Legit
Alpha move right there
Kgf😁
Travis : I'm going to put the blade through some test ...
Continues to bash his sword on top of table 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Yeah smart too got rid of that tip early 😅
All that strength testing to win by a guy who couldn’t even compete
Have you seen what he did in the pata episode?
When he lit that cigar that was literally the coolest thing ever
I’d say it was pretty ‘hot’ tbh
My buddy, that was a joint. He was getting high while forging a blade. Sounds like a disaster.
Travis is a character. They should give him his own show.
true, i would atch this guy do anything weapon related
They kinda did. He's a judge on Knife or Death
He deserve it bruh 😂
@@taylor_green_9 Yep, he's the blade inspector
I felt the same😂😂
"Just watch me"
*AND SO ENTERED TRAVIS*
"What really sets our blades apart is gonna be the art work"
Actually Morgan it's gonna be the functionality
Famous last words "Damascus steel to impress the judges". Doug is really polite. Nice dude.
i actually said this in my head when he talked about demascus hahahahahaha nice one
Yeah should have just built a strong blade not a pretty pattern
I think I’ve only seen one episode that wound up coming down to aesthetics.
If kiddo had just made a functional weapon, he might have even won. Doug commented that the winning sword was heavy and that’s usually a death sentence unless the lighter sword breaks or cannot be tested.
It's like I could tell Travis would win it just by his personality alone.
when he lit his cigar on the hot steel, i knew he was gonna win
He got that main antagonist attitude
@@peekafch Reminds me of Heisenburg from RE Village.
WALTUH! @@Intrepid_Explorer
Combine a farmer and a blacksmith and you will get someone who flat out understands a tough piece of steel when he sees it.
Yep.
2:26 How phlegm it was, when he lighted his cig with the red-hot metal :D
That was pretty cool
that's how you know who's winning.
That wasn’t a cig
@@tannertrousdale5742 yes it was, that's a cigarillo style. I smoke those all the time.
No one uses phlegm like this haha
0:03
7:45
Being young and cocky.. doesn't often work out
dang u said it first
He tried to go for an overly complicated Damascus pattern that didn't leave any room for any back up plan if anything broke. It's ight
these are just the edits they show to tell the story and make it look like thay
Finally someone goes "my steel is decent, no need to be fancy"
Never do Damascus in this competition. Something nearly always goes wrong.
Most of the time they always use demascus
It gives you nk advantadge if you use damascus like why do they even do it
@@nikolasvitlica267 Damascus looks pretty but it's hardly practical as a working weapon. The kind of stresses they put the blades under is enough to cause damascus, no matter how well it's made and welded together to de laminate. I have a couple of damascus knives but I never use them. I rather stick with a monosteel blade that I know how it's going to perform and what it's failure points are.
Damascus + ebony handle = instant failure.
@Kind Manik but ussualy the bladesmith does the rest of the work pretty well which is the cause od his victory but looks alone cant give you an edge
I love the way Travis worked.
That to me was the worst blade made on this show and no fun to watch. I did enjoy watching Travis though.
True what a bad blade for 5 days
We have seen better results than that
Yeah that joint was fugly
Seems like Tony Starke (Iron Man), would do better.
IN A CAVE !!
I think he got confused. They weren't supposed to make swords that look like they were made in the Viking Age and then found
i dunno, the ilakakakaboomshakalaka- one of the guys turned in an iron bar.
Travis gives me Tim Curry vibes, in a good way. He looks mad, but he is actually the most sane. Unlike Morgan, he understood the importance of risk vs reward in mono-steel. He used a ladder to heat treat and quench so he had more leverage. He found the breaking point of the tip so he could be comfortable about the durability.
I like his quote on breaking, that man's got pretty solid values.
Tim Curry vibes is so spot on, thanks for putting that feeling while watching to words for me lmao
The way Travis stabs the metal table with his sword and how he lit up his cigarette... What a mad lad
Travis's sword is good for the challenge, Morgan's in the other hand would belong to the Nordic museum as a relic.
"Ita gonna come down to the beauty of the blade" Ok bud. The instant he did that first god awful heat treat I knew it was over for that Damascus
4:55 lmao who didn't see the delam coming
"Im going to do a Damascus"
No you're not
5:36 time for a shank
"If someone thinks I can't win, just watch me!"
We watched. We saw. You didn't win.
But he made it this far! I count that as a win but as weapon performance, definite loss! Stayed till the end like a Champ!
More than just "didn't win" he made a sword which couldn't even be tested
Cringy cocky kid
he made it past 2 rounds of elimination
Kid is still super talented. I imagine lots of people vocalize their doubts in his abilities, which is probably why he said that. Everyone's got a bad day in every skill
3:05 when you know who's going to win before watching the other guys build
I knew at 2:25
@@deosibasha2765 you are far superior than I am, may I bow before you?
Travis is one of the most likeable dudes on the show 😂,loved his appereances,my favourite along with Ben
I hate when both weapons don't make it through all the final test it just takes the fun out of it
i hate when the guy with the weapon with no historical accuracy wins
@Jan Siegle The sword was clearly inferior but...yeah kinda. That wasn't a viking sword, it looked more like an arming sword. It didn't have really any characteristics of the viking sword besides being a sharp double edged swordd
@Jan Siegle So if a smith makes an amazing and beautiful blade that performs just as well as the other contestants plain yet accurate sword, yet the beautiful sword has virtually no characteristics of the sword that they were supposed to make, effectively making it a different type of sword. The beautiful sword should still win because it's more shiny? I think that being able to make a functional and reliable sword without changing out half the design should win over a flashier yet different sword. They weren't challenged with making the flashy inaccurate sword and the deviations from the challenge sword should be considered missing parameters. Like they've done before but oddly not here.
When i see travis lit his cigar from the heat of the blade, i knew straight away that he's gonna win
So let me get this straight, this guy is a great craftsman, a forge and fire winner AND he's handsome? Ok, God, not jealous at all
Not to mention that he's funny.
Not a single episode has been missed by me and not only that, I've watched every episode at least twice..
Nice bro, I’ve only watched it on RUclips but I’ve seen em all on youtube
Same its so addicting
The battle the judges episodes are my favourite one's I hope they show more of them.
Strange to see Travis as a competitor rather than a judge. But it's easy to see why they picked him for KoD.
Good lord the visible gulf between the quality of those two blades at 6:07 is immense.
The grinders in the forge are the ones from Travis' company
yep
The judges decided to have no strength test, luckily, Travis fearlessly did some of that for us to see his blade is worthy of a champion
Jesus I can't believe Morgan thought the judges would not visually inspect the sword before testing! He had the worst forged sword that I have seen yet on the show, a blind man could see those Grand Canyon sized cracks along the Cutting Edge, and other dudes sword is absolutely gorgeous! And Sharp As a Razor the way it cut into that ballistics dummy stomach...
bro travis sword is actually inaccurate(Pommel and xguard), morgan actually tired his best lol
@@yharisvondagar8176 he tried his best, certainly, but he did go out of his way to try and use damascus steel, which cost time and effort he could have put into ensuring the quality of the sword
morgan "if someone were to think that i can't win because im so young.. just watch me"
and yet he came with a metal stick full of problems they have to not to test it
"Thousands of years old...." ? More like _a_ thousand years old
Eh 1500 years give or take, if we’re really counting
@@moneyhunter6019 First important Viking raid was June 8, 793, 1227 years ago when you commented 1500.
He was acting like he wanted to be all safe, then he put glowing steel up to his face to light a cancer stick then touched it to check if it was hot.
"he put glowing steel up to his face to light a cancer stick"
... I mean, you're not wrong. Technically.
Pure tobacco cigarillos, though still having carcinogens, aren't remotely as likely to cause cancer as cigarettes. Especially if you don't inhale
That kid is the kind its refreshing to see get humbled.
I watched one, and now I can't stop watching all of them
*DON'T DO DUMASCUS UNLESS YOU'RE 100% SURE YOU CAN PULL IT OFF*
IDK how that guy managed the final round. Feeling sad for Travis, This guy deserves a better opponent.
I wanna see him again.
It seems the Damascus build blade is always hit and miss. But mostly miss.
Funny thing is, that most people think that Damascus blades are tougher...
@@greekveteran2715 Wonder why? I know Damascus blades are the pretties looking blade. But when the Forged in Fire tested them, they always suffer the catastrophic failure. "It will not cut." - Marcaida
@@greekveteran2715 Traditional Damascus steel is actually insanely strong, particularly compared to it's historical contemporaries. The problem is that the process for doing it is lost and as a result all we have is an aproximation of what it looks like.
@@guitarhausdoesntknowwhatac3285 It's nothing like the original damascus that it's recipe is lost. You can't "glue" 2 steels and make a tougher blade. I say that because most people I know, have in mind, that damascus blades, are tougher. You get both atributes from both steels, which means, that if (and it always is) 1 of 2 steels, is less tougher, then the blade will be less tougher on the parts where that still is. Same goes for it's strength abilities.The real problem with Damascus is, that no matter how good the welding is done, it will always be a chance,the 2 steels come apart! They can't find out, what was that old recipe you mentioned for many reasons! When it comes to knives or steel blades, the more simple, the better, the simplest the BEST! Until they find that old recipe, and damascus gets into the compatition!!
@@greekveteran2715 Theres a reason why the term KISS exists; Keep it Simple Stupid, that way theres less things that can go wrong.
I know it will be a slight deviation but also give them tasks for projectile weapons.
That man lit his blunt with a sword. That’s a real one
Honestly I knew Travis would win the second he lit his cigar with his glowing blade. Good on Morgan though, he made it further than most contestants on the show, I hope he learned from his mistakes and is better from it
3:29
OKAY, YOU WON 😂
Travis is either on his way to becoming Trevor from GTA5 or he runs a channel on YT called "AvE"
He is actually AVEs son
Talk about an instant victory.
I think Travis might be the most charismatic person I've ever seen
When in doubt, don't use damascus. You run a high risk of delamination in addition to splitting and potential impurity entrapment.
I"T WILL KEEEEEEELLLLLL" Made my day...❤️
On one of these when one guy has a real preoccupation with the fine details, more than the functionality you know that guy will lose.
The kiddo was kinda full of himself all talking about "perfection" and bringing in a wanky piece of broken steel with a floppy stick attached to it
A Pretty Good Showing by the Young Man... Thanks for Sharing
Im very surprised they even used that for production. And yes you nailed that one buddy the thing that seperates them apart was most def the artwork
5:17, when your cuss word all of the sudden amplifies itself
2:27 this man just light up a cigar with a hot blade, that's pretty viking
One word: Travis 😎
"I'm gonna do a damascus blade"
FOOL, YOU HAVE DOOMED YOURSELF FROM THE START
2:26 what a madlad
That guy Morgan was in the same town I work in lol that's pretty cool
Travis is a forging legend.
0:30 not "thousands of years" old but "a thousand years old"
I hope this young guy came back after gaining some expirience and win next time
I do hope so too, I'm 20 yrs old and I can't even make a knife to save me life so I give him props
He forged that damascus to cold
As soon as I heard Damascus, my brain just said "omae wa mou shindeiru"
No the Damascus is very good way to build a sword but not for fighting
@@commandergeokam2868 damascus was primarily used to make weak metals into a stronger version of itself, it was invented for weapons, just not invented for fools to use while in a rush, either way yeah, damascus = lose on this show
That was a good presentation.
the problem with the damascus blade is that on the 1st quench he dipped it too quick.... so the steel never had the chance to harden. thus delamination
Travis is pure entertinment
That winner reminds me of the crazy teacher from 60 days in🤣🤣
2:28 shordie thats gasss😂
A whole wood to da face🤣🤣
BLOWING STRAIGHT PRESSURE
He tried and didn't give up +respect
Yeah this guy was clearly not experienced enough, I'm a layman when it comes to blacksmithing, but you can clearly see the delamination in the middle of his damascus at 04:41. Also, he seemed to rush through the process, could also be editing, but he really didn't seem to take the time needed to finish the blade. He definitely shouldn't have twisted it and spend a lot more time folding it, didn't see him use flux during the heating either, again could be editing. Hopefully he got some experience from it and is a much better smith because of this lesson.
Travis, the real gigachad
Already seen this Travis but can't figure out where
Travis is defiantly one of the most alpha contestants we've ever had, like just look at this 2:27 !
*definitely
Travis looks like Lt. Dan from forest gump.
😂 awesome
I'm honestly confused why Morgan didn't see the delamination/cracking occur right after his initial quench. You can see it quite obviously in the center of the blade at 4:37
Travis might be the coolest guy I’ve ever seen
He is! Isn’t he?
morgan looks like hvitserk from vikings, quite fitting
Thank you!
Travis has the chaotic energy I’d expect from from a farmer and blacksmith
"Watch me" LMAO
It ain’t done. But it will kill. Probably what Doug will say when making a weapon on his own and testing it out.
You can sense the regret in Doug's voice
You already know the blades are gonna break from how long that intro was
Travis and I went to school together. Absolutely great dude, nothing’s changed!
Travis was the ultimate Chad compared to the other guy, just by looking at his arm muscles i knew he would win!
Travis has had more experience than my mans age
"I'm gonna make damascus ..."
dangit now I know who is the winner
Great energy
1:29
I should seek employment in a forge!
Travis is my spirit animal
Dude's got balls to deliver, instead of just bolting
After Doug is finished with forged in fire he will go on to sell refrigerators. His sells line is "It will cheal"
Ben and Travis battle would be amazing 🔥
Hey man, you tried your best👊🏻better luck next time
Every sword smith: I’m gonna use Damascus because I’m different and wanna stand out
Please try IYI swords please
I love these videos cause they are only 10 mins long
Travis is real wolverine no ? :DD same style +- . Funny x)