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The History Ch.
The History Channel has a number of good shows on it. While the story line drags a bit on most shows, a minute recap after commercials, just about every show from the bronze age to the middle ages shows something "made" with metal.
Even the story about, I think, the Jamestown settlers had an interesting tidbit. Since they didn't know what they would need in the new world they took a metal smith and stock metal. What they needed on a given day he would make.
While the reenactor made a number of items on the show, I found the punching of holes and joining two pieces with a rivet to be most interesting.
The most impressive? Any blade after it is finished, polished, handle and decoration added.
Pete
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