steeling

welding process

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use in toolmaking

  • hand tools
    In hand tool: European usage

    Steeling, or the welding of strips of steel to the iron head, was invented in the Middle Ages. The head was first rough-forged by bending a properly shaped piece of flat iron stock around an iron handle pattern to form the eye. Steeling could take…

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