It has evolved from shaping soft, native metals like gold with simple hand tools, through the smelting of ores and hot forging of harder metals like iron, up to highly technical modern processes such as machining and welding. The historical roots of metalworking predate recorded history its use spans cultures, civilizations and millennia. As a term it covers a wide and diverse range of processes, skills, and tools for producing objects on every scale: from huge ships, buildings, and bridges down to precise engine parts and delicate jewelry.
Metalworking is the process of shaping and reshaping metals to create useful objects, parts, assemblies, and large scale structures.
