Forged in Fire: TRIPLE-EDGED BATTLE AXE Puts an END to the Final Round (Season 2) | History

ted decker congratulations your work has  secured your place in the forge and fire final   when you arrived here you forged a  signature blade of your own design   now we're sending you home to  forge an iconic weapon from history the tabar it's not a sword the tabar is a battle axe originating from  persia armenia india and surrounding cultures   usually made entirely of metal it has a strongly  curved blade and a hammer-headed pole that was   often decorated with inscriptions the light  metallic handle is what makes the axe unique   and durable in battle during the 17th and 18th  centuries the tabar was a standard weapon of the   mounted warriors of india afghanistan and what  is now pakistan with its double-edged blade and   piercing spike it was an unrelenting weapon of war  this fierce weapon is featured in the iconic film   series the lord of the rings you will have five  days at your home forge to complete your work   at the end of five days you will return and  present your to bars to our panel of judges   only after they've submitted those weapons to  a series of brutal and dynamic tests well they   declare one of you the forged and fire champion  and the recipient of a ten thousand dollar check   good luck bladesmiths we'll see you in five days my name is ted thompson i split my  time between knife making and tattooing   i've been a knife fanatic my whole life and i  just started blacksmithing to see if i could   today i'm going to work on the handle there's  a lot to think about on getting everything   put together the right way right now  just a really really long eye poker i decided to make an axe head out  of an 8 pound sledgehammer head   it's a very good high impact steel i want to be  able to chop a car in half with this thing so i'm going to do an asymmetrical double-headed one   blade's going to be a little  bit heavier than the other i'm fullering the metal so it spreads wide so  i can start building the beards of the blade   awesome cool profile too i don't have a forge big enough to fit the the axe  fully assembled so i use the front of the forge   and my cutting torch and got it up to critical  and then i quenched one side and then the other sweet yeah she's hard it'll be ready to go i'm decker i work as a computer security  consultant blacksmithing and knife making   is sort of a sideline that i do as a little bit  of therapy planning on doing some pattern welding   for this project if it's worth making it's  worth making in damascus this piece here is   going to turn into a long bar of steel similar  to this that'll then get cut up into sections   so i can stack multiple layers  together in a billet to weld time to get this steel starting to look less  like a lump of stuff and more like an axe   inside the mind of a madman i'm going into the  press to do the very first flooring operation   defining moment i start to squish and just that right there  probably save you 45 minutes   definitely a little more sexy  than what i left with yesterday now i've got the spike in the forge  i've got to get that drawn out good gravy spike is going to  make this thing heavier now   i'm behind what i had set myself for schedule  i've got a lot to figure out and i've still got   a lot to do tomorrow certainly hope nothing  goes wrong but and failure is not an option let's go kill something sweet that's done from heller high water that's  it blade's bits this is the kill test   the tobar's three sharp sides allows for three  times the chances of killing an opponent in   the heat of battle to test the lethality and  function of your weapon i will test all three   sides by chopping at this animal carcass ted  you're up are you ready heck yeah let's do this well ted the design of your blade  really digs in to the carcass the hooks   grabs everything that's in  there and rips it right out   balance is a little bit heavy but it will do a lot  of destruction this weapon sir will kill awesome   good job sir thank you decker it's your turn you  ready let's cut some bacon doug let's do this yes yes yes well decker your edges are very sharp  as you can see what it did it pretty much wanted   to cut all the way through the feel though is a  little bit rounded for the handle but nonetheless   it's light so i can generate more power to  control it this is a weapon that will kill   good job sir thank you i'm gonna pass  things off to dave for the next test all   right gentlemen it's time for the strength test  ted you're up are you ready i'm ready all right all right three two one engaging you put a really good crease in the shield  and that's a heck of a chop you just dropped   in that hardened oak of this barrel a  little bit of a roll right up here on this   edge that hit the shield on the shaft of the  ax looks perfectly straight didn't flex at all   well done thank you all right  decker you're up let's tap a keg all right three two one engage son of a [ __ ] well decker your spike sheared  off right at that rivet point yep now you put   a good crease in the shield so you put a good  cut in the barrel the edge of the axe here that   hit the barrel just see a little coloration  some shiny spots the side that hit the shield   doesn't look like any damage at  all but that spike coming off well   that's a problem at the moment when  that spike fell my heart just sank gentlemen you both put in a lot of work on your   to bars but in this arena there can  only be one forged and fire champion ted you are the fortune fire champion decker  your weapon did not make the cut congratulations   ted congratulations you are the forged  fire champion and will be receiving a   check for ten thousand dollars good job thank  you i joined this competition to see if i had   what it took to make a better weapon than three  other guys and i did it and that makes me happy   props for putting fortune fire onto  the blade and persian around here   says caution sharp edge nice touch when  i'm working with a bunch of guys i really   respect they're gonna push the quality that i do  it pushed me a lot that's what i enjoyed about it you

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Length: 9min 26sec (566 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 18 2021