![]() Once the weapons were completed, they were flown back to New York for the final test. Redick said he wished he had had more hours. "Forged in Fire" crews filmed the two men at work over five days a couple of weeks before Thanksgiving they were permitted to work up to 10 hours a day. “I had made smaller kukris, but had never made a full-sized battle kukri till then,” said Redick, whose weapon weighed in at around three pounds and was 22 inches long. The two blacksmiths, who have since the filming become good friends, flew back from New York to their respective home forges to create the final weapon in the competition: a kukri, with a 16- to 22-inch-long blade. “The carving he does on handles is amazing,” Redick said. Redick called Weston “very talented,” and believes Weston's blacksmithing work will someday be collectors' items. “The competition was pretty awesome - it was a supremely unique experience.” “I was very happy to have met Jason,” said Weston. resident otherwise known as “The Pixel Smith”-a nod to Weston's career working with websites. “I take pride in making my knives stand up to a lot of punishment.”Īfter the elimination, Redick was up against Josh A. “I passed with flying colors,” said Redick, who operates from Angry Giant Forge. The knife had to stand-up to piercing a metal barrel lid three times without signs of damage and still be sharp enough to slice through a sack filled with sand. Redick, 40, was flown to New York for filming of the first round of competition in Brooklyn this autumn, where he was pitted against three other blacksmiths to create a double-edged blade dagger in an elimination round. “Through trial and error I came up with a knife that will really stand up to anything.” “I did a lot of destructive testing,” he said. ![]() At that time, about eight years ago, he enrolled in a blacksmithing class at Blue Ridge Community College and has been at the forge full time since then. after 10 years in the plastics industry, friends encouraged him to make more of the knives he mostly gave away. “I was pretty shocked when I won I was pretty sure I had it, but you never know,” said Redick, who started making knives as a boy on a “basic” homemade coal forge. ![]() Redick won $10,000 for winning the competition on the Nepalese Kukri episode that aired on March 22. Hand-forged knives are the specialty of the Fletcher native, who recently won a "Forged in Fire" TV series competition for the traditional Nepalese kukri knife he created for the episode. When blacksmith Jason Redick first saw the History Channel's show "Forged in Fire" last year, he thought, “I could do that that's something I do every day.” ![]()
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