Some wore bold facial hair, ranging from groomed hipster beards, to biker-style handle-bar mustaches, to the bushy face ‘do of a wily prospector. Over the course of several episodes, I saw a variety of men come to the forge. That is the point.) The weapon that cuts and holds up the best wins, and that contestant gets $10,000 and the honor of being a Forged in Fire champion.
(It’s usually on a pig or deer carcass, which was a section I watched through my fingers because this human substitution is still pretty grisly, and a wee bit disturbing as the judge cheerfully proclaims of weapons that pass muster, “It will kill!” But I mean, they’re making weapons. And then they come back to the studio to have their weapons tested. The two best from this round will then have 5 days to go back to their “home forge” (that’s a thing people have!) to make one weapon from history, like (checks notes) a Russian pioneer sword, Bagh Nakh, and the Wind and Fire Wheels. After one contender is cut, the remaining three will complete their weapons by attempting to address the panel’s notes on their forged metal, and adding a handle. In the first, four contestants must make a blade. I’m here for the men who managed to be passionate and manly without being competition-crazy, agro-dickheads. But look, I’m not here for the sockets and canisters and-uh-billets. And that will become very obvious as I struggle to describe the show. I knew exactly nothing about bladesmithing when I stumbled across this History Channel show on my hotel’s TV. It’s like they all come from the Nick Offerman school of manhood! And yet for all this machismo, Forged In Fire provides a wide array of positive male role models, men who relish being masculine, yet are happy to share their softer side. This is a deeply macho show, where the contestants drip with sweat from the heat of the forge fires, where their weapons are tested by an all-male panel of judges, and where slow-motion is intensely slathered on close-ups or forges, tools, and swipes of newly made blades. Here, men bend metal to their will with fire, muscle, and lots of pounding.
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Is there a more macho hobby than bladesmithing? Watching the reality TV competition Forged In Fire, I’m hard-pressed to imagine one.
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