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How do the Condor axes compare?

rg598 said:
. I don't know when people started using the molds.
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Again those "molds" are pretty old. I've seen myself "molds" for sword shaping from the 17th century and they probably existed long before. Even in manual forging people have been using various shape hammers from a long time. Professional blacksmith used to have a whole range of shaping tools or "molds" (which we should probably rather call "dies").

Of course they have always been people making their tools with a simple hammer, but they were probably part time maker.
 
Ravaillac said:
Again those "molds" are pretty old. I've seen myself "molds" for sword shaping from the 17th century and they probably existed long before. Even in manual forging people have been using various shape hammers from a long time. Professional blacksmith used to have a whole range of shaping tools or "molds" (which we should probably rather call "dies").

Of course they have always been people making their tools with a simple hammer, but they were probably part time maker.
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Cool, thanks.
 
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