Judges accidentally cheated. Broken blade was brought down on metal hinge and other blade was only wood strikes.

John Brown wait really

Rerelease free episodes again

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John Brown that and with the broken blade, it was struck further up instead of at the tang, and the unbroken was struck directly on the tang

They usually fail or don’t make a cool pattern

Aaaand they lose

they look cool but cmon functionality is better than looks.

@@javanbybee4822 technically it doesn't detract functionality of a blade, but it does introduce more opportunities for something to go wrong

This dude is exceptional, he made a damascus like its nothing lolp

Damascus are only good for show pieces for collectors.

@@TraumaCenter13 not strictly true, Damascus is very strong being a composite alloy. Problem is its very difficult to get right, the two different material properties make the quenching very very difficult to judge. Even absolute experts get it wrong more times than they get it right. Its been around since about the 11th century BC but no one knows the exact amounts of each material used or how they did it so effectively. The Aramaeans really knew how to work with metals.

The other blade broke,

Dont think it was the Damascus I think it was how he went about forging out the tang

King Donny J success of not having a powerhammer is even rarer.

just an uneducated guess. Blacksmiths had slaves or were slaves. so they could have either used slaves to make their jobs easier, or were slaves so nobody cares. also they didn't have a 4 day time limit.

@@nabilyassin1742 Actually the biggest thing was water-powered hammers and bellows, not slaves. This basically gave blacksmith's massive power hammers and automatic bellows which is pretty cool.

They had blast forges powered by their apprentices and frequently employed three hammer men to act as a power hammer. later wind and water drove 300 lbs hammer tools. Until the electric power hammer took over.

That is one guy working on a weapon, before, it was blacksmith and his apprentices, so multiple people

I like pancakes

well u can see same stuff in plastic packaging. Factory usually put small cut beside the plastic bag and you can open it without much effort

Crack kills

Same with most things that rely on structure and strength. I'm a joiner and cracks in metal are the knots of wood one simple hairline fracture can lead to disaster

@@mickolesmana5899 depends... toilet paper never cuts where holes are)

@@Garbid 🤣That's because there are often some missing holes.😁

Why tho?

IsTizzy it’s out of respect for the boar.

I am a Zulu and you're right. The shields were made from dried up animal skin but when we had to fight the British they had carriages and forts (sometimes of wood) that needed to be dismantled.

Your chances of being killed by a marauding ammo box are low but never zero

Its about reliability, the axe can accidently hit a tree, other metals etc.. and break in half. If it does, well youre screwed lol

At rorke's drift the British garrison set up defensive walls from stacked ammo boxes so...

Eh maybe we did maybe not.

So was the other guy's axe.

Me too. I'm like yeah let's keel

Give the editor a medal

@@syaukirahil3004 ye

Axe will flying

The axe will *keel* someone

@@mitsukiplay6208 And Doug jumping saying''It will keel'' XD

They do in the full episodes, and I'd much rather watch those than only the final rounds, but the 10-minute bites are still nice

If I'm not mistaken, the Zulus were a particularly prominent African tribe

they only tell history when somebody fails a test at the beginning because they more time. ps. no spoilers, I didn't watch the video yet.

The Zulus are an African tribe that the British almost wiped out in the 18/19 century

Search it in google

EAT WEAL KEAL

Eet wheel keel

*cringe

@@Decypha77 yes

Here's your coat...;)

Every layer is a chance to have a bad weld but if it goes right the blade is soft enuff to bend while having a hardened edge. The biggest thing that I don't see is guys using enough flux to keep the metals clean. Maybe it's just bad editing.

@@waynemyers2469 Indeed sir

yeah on the first test it broke when he hit the steel locking mech on the box and when they did 3 strikes for the second guy they hit wood only...

@@ScrapingChassis On the first test he did not hit the metal on the box. all 3 strikes were on the wood section.

@@ScrapingChassis He didn't hit the metal though. Go back and rewatch it in slow motion.

I totally agree as i saw what the strength test was i just waited for that poor blade to snap . They're too harss with some of the strength test .

@@Kevin-nq4yv its alitte dramatic but thats the very point if they can survive that ridiculous stress it stands to show they're quality as a weapon his blade was too thin and when he welded the reinforcement on the tang it did a mini heat treat on the join of the blade a less harsh test might not have shown that

the tang didn't break though. It was a crack higher up

moonasha the issue derived from his mess up of the tang. Had his tang been done correctly the first time, he wouldn’t have had to add on those pieces to add integrity which even still failed.

The tang is the most important part of the blade. You can use a dull, bent, broken blade, whatever. It may not be efficient let alone safe to do but it’s useable to an extent. But if the tang has an issue the weapon/tool will become useless much faster if not immediately, and may harm you in the process.

True. ALL Walmart katanas fail at the tang!

Its almost 11 min long mate

My god you're everywhere stop it for god sake.

How do you even manage to have 3,050 subscribers lol

Chi chan fight me ya dirty bot

@Benny Silin This is such a lame counter, really, freakin simp. HE'S "everywhere," according to your simpness, because he loves this show. SHE is everywhere, and virtually always giving a rather unwanted opinion. And THIS criticism, like many others, is uh....wrong. Simps are the worst, like, ew.

@@MrAlwaysRight *nut* m'lady

Poor execution maybe, but nothing wrong with the technique. The tang doesn't need to be as hard as the edge. An edge quench with a softer body behind it is a perfectly valid technique that has been employed effectively for over 1000 years. Take the infamous Dane axe; many surviving examples exhibit a hardened edge married to a much softer body. I can't say for certain without examining the blade myself, but I suspect it has more to do with the way the tang was split off than the quality of the heat treat. I always cringe when I see them splitting a billet to make hooks, spikes, etc. That's something I would never even attempt with my skill level, because I know the potential for failure at that point.

@@lukediehl1210 well he also then welded on the pieces on tang, making the crack even more possible without proper normalizing etc.

I notice most that dont do the tang aswell almost always breaks.

@@lukediehl1210 So you sound like you do some blacksmithing yourself? Here is what i don't understand about quenching, why don't more smiths just do edge quenches and forgo quenching the entire blade? So for instance in Nepal kukri are completely un quenched on the body other than water that is poured in a careful 1/2 to 1 inch line down the edge. Then the tang is heated and inserted into wood/horn hot and slowly cools thus tempering it somewhat.This means a soft body and a hard edge. Better the body bend than break no?

@@-Zevin- There are multiple techniques available for hardening and tempering. Which one you choose is entirely dependant on what you're making and what it's intended use is. Let's take your example of the kukri. A kukri is a multipurpose knife, but the blade shape and weight distribution make it especially well suited to chopping. That means that it has to be able to withstand jarring impacts against fairly hard targets. In that application, a soft, shock absorbing body with a hard, penetrating edge is an excellent choice. If you're dealing with a very small blade, like a pocket knife, you can basically just harden the whole thing. It's okay if it's a little brittle because it won't be used for hacking and chopping. It's for small cutting chores, and you want it to hold an acute edge. Now let's consider a rapier, a very long thrust oriented bladr. If it meets resistance, like bone, the blade is going to bend. The question is, what then? Too hard and the blade will snap. Too soft and the bend will set. You need the entire blade to have a stiff spring temper so it can flex when necessary and return to true. All of that doesn't even begin to touch on the subject of steels. High, medium, and low carbon steels are completely different animals. The traditional Japanese method of differential hardening with clay has as much to do with the quality of steel they were working with as the form and funtion of the katana. I hope I've explained that well enough. I'm still very much a novice. I started out 10 years ago as a dumb kid making throwing knives out of scrap metal. For the past 3 years, I've been making a serious effort to understand the ins and outs of this craft, but I've still got a long, long way to go.

Well it does look cool

the twisted metal is less likely to break from a crack, it's like a phone book and one page is split, the split will not go to the other layers. however for other types of steel, they are like a plank of plastic, the crack will grow with every hit til it breaks.

@@belalabusultan5911 Actually, the "layered" damascus (be it any pattern) is more likely to crack, smiths just work much harder to make sure it doesnt, because it is a much higher time investment.

That was a very nice ax though

@@belalabusultan5911 Completely false katana hype but ok

they aren't hitting both weapons with the same strength or at the same point either

Its meant to simulate years of wear and tear in the span of 45 seconds. Thats why they always so they dont care what it does to "x" object just what "x" object does to the blade itself.

The difference is they cost something to watch while these videos don't. A lot of us here aren't American and don't have this show on TV.

Raises hand:I’m British I can’t watch it in TV

@@mephistovonfaust You can watch it on TV even if you're not American. I used to live in Central Europe, I could watch History Channel all day long. Moved to the UK, still able to watch History Channel

@@meslathman1211 I believe you can watch it on TV in the UK too.

Bilack ok thanks

therealsosi exactly

therealsosi it also cracked where he wielded the carbon

Yeah, one of them was definitely going to break in the stress test. If they would have swung the other a few more times it probably would've broken too

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