Only A Master Can Pass This Test
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Wow, that 90 degree blade bend test is terrifying. Glad you passed! Master Will!
Totally agree, I wanted to wear a face shield just watching it on my computer
I felt myself backing off from my screen during that
that "safety squint" was terrifying
That's not the Master Smith test finished yet, you have to make 5 different knives including a quillion dagger That have to pass a grading by a MS.
Absolutely terrifying, i get anxious watching it
Proud of you dude! I've watched you go from learning the ropes to Master Smith now... it's awesome to see you grow!
Congrats on passing! It is funny how Will adopted a southern accent down here in FL!🤠
Master Blade Smith! Great job. It's been so fun watching your journey. Congratulations!
Congratulations Will! I hope to buy you a meal and a drink someday. Its always exciting to see a new video of yours get posted. Cheers.
Congrats Will I’ve followed you for a few years now and have watched you grow your skills . This is a big step you just took and I hope you keep putting out your videos! Cheers
MASTER BLADESMITH Mr. SLATER ...
CONGRATULATIONS 🎉
(and yes I wanted to scream that with letters)
Love watching all that you do. Been watching you since the day you started with Mr. Steele.
Take care
The tip about having a secondary market is pure gold
Congrats Will! I look forward to seeing that “Master Bladesmith” adorning your name on the ABS website
Man that 90° test always makes my butt pucker! You don't even realize you're holding your breath until it's over!
Love this video! Steve is ONE OF A KIND. Feel blessed to know him. Congrats to Will and Logan !!
Congrats on the performance test, and good luck on the presentation knives! I would love to give this video 3 YT thumbs up for the interview conversation. Super cool man with a lot of interesting things to talk about with such a positive energy!
Well done Will!
Thanks for sharing that. I enjoyed all of it, and the interview was especially cool.
Congrats on passing your masters test. Cool people to hang out with. Stay safe.
Not used to seeing Jason Knight without his beard. Congrats on the test.
CONGRATULATIONS 🎊
Congratulations
congrats Will! holy cow that's painful to have to bend your own knife i bet haha. great work.
That old man hadsome pretty wise things to say.
Congratulations Will 🔪❤️🔥
Was that Neil Kanimura I saw in the background?
It looked like the other guys blade bent
Bending is fine at the journeyman test, It just isn't allowed to break.
@@DH-xw6jp Thought the other guy was trying to pass the Master test as well.
As someone who is not a maker, but rather appreciates the craft, this was a wonderful video. Congrats to you both for passing, but the interview in the 2nd half of the video was really wonderful. The lessons he talked about apply to far more than knife making. Life lessons like this apply across so many skills and jobs. My favorite video so far of yours, great job Will!
The amount of bladesmithing knowledge in that workshop is immense. So many renown and tallented individuals assembled for such an occasion will remain in your memories for a long time!
When I saw Jason run past the camera in the opening, I was like "wait, is that...?"
And then it was lol. I haven't been that excited since Jason's Halloween party a few years back when Burt Foster was dressed as J Neilson
Congratulations, Will. I'm really impressed that your blade straightened back up to true after the bend test - very cool!
Shows how much that spine tempering matters, as well as the quality of his heat treat
Three people going, "Dayum!" in the back proves how impressive that was!
12:10 Will having pstd flashbacks of working for Alec
Congrats man, none of us had any doubt that you'd absolutely do amazing!
Watching the bend test is terrifying, but seeing your blade go back to straight after the bend was mind-blowing
Anyone else poor Will is stuck at 249k subs and has been for ages. I wonder if its because he is outspokenly christian and has a cross in the background in most all of his videos ? Share his content lets get it out there.
Will Stelter Master Blade Smith has one hell of a ring to it! Congrats on passing your performance test Will! I have enjoyed watching you grow as a blacksmith and blade smith, and cannot wait for what you do next!
Don't pour out the baby with the bath, he's not a master yet! (Sorry, I'm german, premature congratulations are a bad omen over here...)
i think i am most impressed that your knife came almost back to straight after that bend.
Feedback. I HATE the subtitles. That is all.
The amount of big names on the bladesmith community in that shop is insane.
Congratulations! Great content along the way.
The amount of absolute legends in this video is incredible. Even better you can tell they all treat Will like a little brother. It's so cool.
Congratulations on becoming a Master Bladesmith!
I love how yall translate SOUTHERN!
Ahahaha ahaha ....
I understood everything he was saying.
Being from South Carolina, Of course and now I live in the DEEEEEEP SOUTH... the real SOUTH...
Chile South America. Jim
you should make a leg vise from scratch
I seriously don't say this about a lot of people but Steve seems like someone I really want to meet and sit down and talk with. Better yet piddle around the shop and make something with. He's a rare kind of person for sure.
CONGRATULATIONS on passing the performance test 👍👍. Do you have any time frame for when you get the MS grade??
I am looking forward to watching you build the rest of your MS knives.
Seriously guys? No face shield? No gloves? No safety AT ALL??? If either of those blades had a catastrophic failure, pieces of sharp steel could be flying at extreme velocity literally EVERYWHERE! Great video and awesome knife, but not a great image for our community brother!
Well done, what a lovely community yall got there. God bless.
Will,
A most excellent performance test. Very impressive when you hit 90 degrees and your knife came straight; no set or bend that could be seen in your video.
Fantastic performance. Congratulations.
Keep the aspidistra flying!
God bless,
Paul
OUT- freakin-STANDING!! Nicely done brother.
Congratulations!!! There was no doubt, that this ugly blade will make it!! Don't judge a knive by its blade.... 😂
Will, You need to meet up with a buddy of mine, Big hand Dave. He's a professional Bladesports competitor and he could teach you a thing or two about that 2x4 chop. :)
Puillin' yer leg of course!
Chopping through a 2x4 with a knife is something that only a blacksmith would (1) try, and (2) succeed at whilst still having functioning arms.
...was the test administered properly? It's supposed to be rope cut (4-8 inches from the end), 2x4, then shave to show it didn't get dull with the previous tests. I don't doubt it could pass (and I know parts may have been edited out), and congratulations on the approval; just something I found strange.
Congratulations!!! That's quite an accomplishment!
Hokey smkoe I was sweating that bend test but the way your blade popped back to true.......WTF!!! Well done sir.
YT is being a BIG meany by not showing this vid in my subscription feel. Saw it as a recommendation instead.
Easily one of the most wholesome channels on youtube, thanks for that.
I like this. Respect your elders and knowledge will be passed onto you. Congratulations Master Bladesmith Will :)
I'm a huge fan of yours, Will! I saw Neil Kamimura in the background!!! I love his brute de forge style!
I would give almost anything to be in that room while talking with Steve, I bug him to death every blade show because I just love to hear him talk. Everything he says has so much weight.
That bend test would terrify me if i were steve. I wouldn't stand that close and only rely on just my hand to protect me. Lol. I don't forge personally, but i have enough metalwork experience with hardened steels to see them shatter when doing such a thing, they basically become a grenade. Brave man. Lol
Good job will for passing. Hope everyone is taking care.
Congratulations Jordan as well
Congrats. Also hanging with all those legends must be incredible. 🤙🏻
I mean this facetiously and in good humor, but there go Will’s knife prices! Good job, Young ‘un!
Jason looks VERY…..unique, let’s say. Without facial hair haha 😂
“Why do you have so many knives?”
“Some men like watches, some men like cars. I find beauty in a well crafted piece of sharpened steel.”
Well done Will! The 5 knives should be easy for you. We all know you build beautiful and functional knives.
The real question to be asked when entering master rank is, "will it keel?"
Jk though. Amazing work! Congrats!
What a rush. Congrats man. And that interview warmed my heart. I’m not in your craft but it’s highly enjoyable to watch and thanks for sharing
So cool, man! That generation is a treasure. Good company and a spring of knowledge. Its all just too good. Congrats!!
Almost forgot to congratulate you Will,, such an interesting talk and marvellous insight…..
Congrats on the test, but that interview was one of the most enjoyable,and humbling I have ever had the pleasure of watching. Kudos.
Congratulations Will! Awesome job on that blade, when it went back to straight I was amazed.
His advice on people who want to do it is don't😂😂😂😂 I feel the same way I make $75 an hour working on airplanes and when people ask me do I think it's a good idea to get into this business I say don't😂😂😂 go be a pilot and make $500 an hour and live in the comfort of conditioned Air at all times
Will! I have watched your Journey for years and to watch you commitment to your craft and your pure unadulterated curiosity is truly inspiring. Master! Hell yeah. Congrats.
This video is more evidence that all my favorite youtubers know each other. Great job, Will!
Congratulations mate. Now the hard work starts. Can't wait to see your Ms presentation knives
That was a great interview! Gratz on passing those tests. At any point the blade could fail and when it doesn't...whew!!!
I like how the difference between the journeyman test and the master test is subtly different, yet the differences are enough that even a not-even-an-amateur like me can see the master test is way harder. Having to still be sharp after the cutting tests shows you can make an edge that's simultaneously thin, strong, _and_ durable, and then the 90° bend test on the journeyman test showing basic heat treat skills, but the master test requiring a thinner tang _and_ that the tang doesn't bend is obviously meant to test your ability to get not only a very good heat treatment, but also do it differently along the length of the steel. Plus having to do all that in damascus, which is inherently less strong than modern single-alloy steels and inherently variable, making the heat treating that much harder.
Congrats on passing the performance test! Looking forward to buying a knife from Master Bladesmith Will Stelter someday when I've got the cash to share on such an indulgent gift for myself.
It’s ALL lies!!! We know you guys are robbing that poor old man blind Lol
Good job Mr Stelter. I was sure that blade was gonna snap on the 90 degree test. Amazing temper on the knife
Helluva journey so far, excited for what comes next! Grats brother.
I was a QC inspector at a casting facility as well as a military machinist.. my best guess at the bend test requirement is ductility which grades homogeneity of material and applied work stresses. 8:45
Congrats ,I found myself guarded watching the 90 ° test
Congratulations mister Will awesome job on the bend test I can't believe how that blade went back to basically straight WOW
When did the 90° bend test become part of the chopper knife test? My choppers are too thick for that. lol ...
Great work brother🤙🏻
I'm sorry man, I had to skip through the bend test. It gave me anxiety. Congratulations!
Yepp, that's the right way: young guys listening to what the old guys have to say about life - and the old guys willing to teach but also learn new ways from the young guys. This is a trade that in these days sadly is very rare. ✌️
Did your knife come almost all the way back to true after the bend test? Show us how close it ended up! That's something you should show off if it took a bend like that and barely bent.
Congratulations, and Neil Kamimura was also there, he deserves a shout out also.
Congratulations, Will. God bless and keep you.
What and amayzing enviroment where who test you celebrate your sucess
Jason Knight looks so different without the beard he had on Forged in Fire. Didn't recognize him.
My girlfriends uncle worked with Jimmy Fikes and the 90 degree test is meant to check your Temper. Your blade should return to true after the bend and if it doesnt it means you did not quench at the right temp or you did not temper at the right temp
I stoped breathing when You were bending that knife 😂Great job!!! 🙌
Watch the first couple minutes of this video at .25 speed... its hilarious!😂
The fact that an old master like Steve has such good things to say about Neil just proves how much of a bad ass he is. I love his work.
My guesstimate would be the 90deg bend is a test of heat treatment to test the scenario of customer turning knife into prybar and not getting shrapnel from the blade exploding in half.
Congratulations to you and Logan!Seeing Logan pass Journeyman doing stock removal is motivating. I always feel like I’m not really making knives because I don’t have the time or space for a forge. Thank you for sharing.
if many layer Damascus steel was hand forged to an even thickness then the blade was waterjet cut to shape is called can forged or not???
Wow. It looks like the 90 degree test did not affect the blade. That was an awesome performance
congratulations ! What an accomplishment ! You are an inspiration .
That 90 degree Bend was awesome. Knife went back to true. Good job!
You may be a master, but can you sit on the Jedi council?
Oh yes Florida is the only place you use R panel for interior ceiling. The sun is a killer down here.😂😂😂