HULBERT – A Hulbert resident will quickly showcase his knife-making abilities on the TV present known as “Forged in Fire.”

Henry Walker, of Hulbert, has been making knives for the previous 10 years. He took his abilities to TV via the History Channel’s tenth season of “Forged in Fire” – a collection competitors that has bladesmiths create knives and re-create different historic weapons, resembling swords.

“It was a really good experience,” Walker mentioned. “I don’t know what else to say; it was a blast.”

Even although Walker mentioned he has at all times labored nicely below stress, he was capable of push himself onerous for the competition.

The course of for Walker to get on “Forged in Fire” began in March 2023. After Walker’s customized fishing rod enterprise started to decelerate, he determined to leap on the likelihood to use for the competitors.

Walker is now a full-time knifemaker along with his enterprise, “Walker Knives.” When it comes to creating the blades, Walker mentioned, high quality is the most important side he focuses on – and the rationale he bought into knifemaking within the first place.

“Even the big companies have started tempering their blades down so much that they’re easy to sharpen, but they don’t hold an edge like they used to,” Walker mentioned. 

After not having the ability to discover his skinning knife, Walker mentioned, he went to pores and skin a deer with a brand new Old Timer deer-cleaning set. 

“I couldn’t even get started on the deer and they were already dull. I had to stop and sharpen every five to 10 minutes, and I was like, ‘I think I could make a knife better than this,'” Walker mentioned with a chuckle.

Walker has been creating knives ever since, and his decade-long profession in making the objects helped him really feel fairly ready for the “Forged in Fire” competitors. Even although Walker was assured in his skills, he mentioned he spent a few month simply reviewing the alternative ways to create Damascus metal knives.

Walker mentioned assembly the judges – J. Neilson, Doug Marcaida, and David Baker – was his favourite a part of of the collection. 

“I’m a big fan of the show anyways. Just to get to visit with them a little bit, with their years and years of knowledge, is pretty exciting,” Walker mentioned.

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Walker might be featured on “Forged in Fire” Wednesday, Nov. 15 at 9-10 p.m. on the History Channel.