Japanese Katana: The Most FAMOUS Weapon In History! | Forged in Fire (Season 1)

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My man was a part time bladesmith, and went toe to toe with someone 15 years ahead of him in practice, screwed up yet still went all the way, absolutely phenomenal

I would love to see them say "Both of you are the Forged in Fire champions." because both of those guys deserved to win!

Imagine: "There could only be one winner and you two are matched. With that said, you will duel to the death using your Katanas and whoever lives, is the Forge & Fire champion. Keal each other. Good luck."

Two of the best blades and best beards on this show.

Give Ben 8 hours and he’ll make a Katana that shoots bullet back in a gun test 🤣

The runner up should be proud of himself . Nice Job .

Both wore green, both had luscious beards, both forged truly excellent weapons. Good episode.

The bullet splitting was so cool! Well done to these guys!

Both swords were very well forged and were equal in blade quality. But, to be honest, the winner's sword made the better impression visually. However, I don't want to call the two swords "katana" because an original katana has a blade made of multi-folded steel with different properties of each blade component in terms of blade hardness and blade flexibility. It’s nearly impossible to forge such a blade during only five days.

If they can make a Katana that well in just 5 days, Just imagined how much better the Katana would be if they have 1 Month to make it.

Rich made an extremely impressive katana w/out a auto hammer or other fancy machines. Forged by hand w/ a simple quench tank & even after his first blade cracked. It cut cleanly, survived pushing through armor, & it's bullet proof! He should not be ashamed of his work. Between his & Matt's sword it had to come down to the finest of details!

It's crazy seeing how much this show has grown over the years. This first season feels so different from season eight!

That kill test... The katana was generally not used on the battlefield where the enemy was likely to be armored. If anything it was a backup weapon in those conditions, with a spear being the main weapon. Compared to axes and maces for example, swords are inferior against armor but they are more suited for parrying/blocking. That makes swords more versatile weapons and thus a superior choice to carry for self-defense. In other words, an unarmored test dummy would've been more realistic for testing the lethality of a katana.

Testing the katana's ability to split a bullet. Because we all know the samurai's greatest tactic was in deflecting gunfire with their swords...

When it's as close as that, it really needs to be a fight to the death, using your own weapon...

This episode is old, Doug doesn't even say It will KEALLLL.

I miss the seasons where they'd give an explanation for why they didn't win, or what specific/finer details gave the winner their winning edge.

Sharpest Katana I have ever seen was one made by Yoshindo Yoshihara. Dropping a tissue on the blade made it split perfectly under it's own weight.

An expert katana blacksmith takes about 1 1/2 years to make one, they did it in 5 days. Must be the breads.