Different metals require distinct forging techniques based on their melting points

Evidence

The following night we experimented with another friend: a longish rod made of bronze. This time there was no great transition, as bronze’s melting temperature is at least five times that of tin. Still, the rod began to glow a brilliant orangey red and Dad showed me how to give whatever shape I wanted to its hot tip with the help of a small steel hammer. Once I’d had enough, we immersed it in cold water also to return it, cool and unchanged, to its original, malleable, state. — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 29