I really enjoyed the blacksmith parts in the first two episodes. I got turned off by the side-character shenanigans and then by some questionable work on old muskets. One of the side-character bits that spoiled it for me was when the narrator reluctantly coughed up $20 to a couple of men who were then supposed to go spend their day finding a "bucket full" of "hard-to-come-by" scrap lead, and then "busted" them for their paltry efforts. Probably this was the TV people intervening but it was just as sad to watch. Then the narrator went after a supposedly priceless musket that had problems with it's trigger assembly. He said there was epoxy. Again the blacksmithing part was legit, but he was totally eroding the original wood housing around the assembly with a blade and it was hard for me to understand why. I think the narrator himself was short-changed by the TV people.
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