• Big_Boss_77@lemmynsfw.com
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    7 months ago

    Hundreds of years ago, material was expensive and labor was cheap. Forging was necessary to make the most out of a finite processed material. Now a days a million cheap blanks for a dollar, it’s cheaper and easier to just grind off excess than take the time to forge the metal.