A discarded transmission shaft is broken down and rebuilt into a layered Damascus billet through repeated forging and welding ...

The art of forging dates to at least 4000BC and probably earlier. Metals such as bronze and wrought iron were forged by early man to produce hand toots and weapons of war. Forging of wrought iron and ...

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