Re-Create a Bronze Age Artifact: The Sand Cast Bronze Knife

Delve into traditional forging practices of the Bronze Age and explore the fabrication of a sand-cast bronze knife: Creating and prparing a mould, melting bronze in a forging furnace, casting the molten bronze, cleaning and embellishing the cast form, finishing the blade, fitting and rivetting a wooden handle to the knife shank.

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