Official MM Firearms Thread

[Ryan T]

So I know this is the “gun” thread, but a lot of talk has taken place about knives, so I figured this was as good a thread as any to put this.

Hopefullly some of you are familiar with the History Channel show Forged In Fire. One of the old Judges named Jason Knight recently relocated to my area. Today he did a forging demonstration at a local park for the local blacksmithing organization. A buddy of mine from work and I went to check it out. He forged a big ass chopper out of a piece of high carbon steel and, while waiting on it to cool, made a small knife out of a piece of ball bearing steel. It lasted about 3 hours and he went through all the steps from setting up the forge to actually forging the blade. He took the big blade all the way down to being smooth, but just roughed the small blade into a “grinder ready” finish. After it was over they did a raffle for the two blades, along with a bunch of other forging stuff, and my $1 won me the small knife! It was a ton of fun, very educational, and took a lot of the wonder out of the ‘what is really involved’ in the forging process.